A walk to visit JMW Turner at Tate Britain via Broadway Market, Norton Folgate, All Hallow’s Lane, Oystergate Walk and Embankment, returning by way of The Tyburn, Marble Arch to Gawber Street at a distance of 13.30 miles.

Buildings familiar to J M W Turner viewed from the towpath between London Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge      18.11.14

“…and although this mad sea will try to turn her with fierceness, and the crush of the embrace break her bones, she has yielded and we are set now for port and shore and this good ship with its damned and stolen cargo, a deadman’s hoard, will berth her in a kinder port than we did before and when there by my god we will thank the lord.”

Excerpt:      Diary of Capt. William Turnbull  –   The Dunedin 1808

attrib: Thomas Bell’s ‘The Turnbull’s of Suffolk’ pub 1949 by David Bell