A return walk to visit Peter Lanyon at the The Courtauld Gallery via Sheep Lane, Bunhill Fields and Fetter Lane returning by way of The Royal Oak, Columbia Road at a distance of 12.26 miles

Lanyon’s Nod                                                                            16.01.16

“… and from this tremendous height and through his endeavours I can still perceive the people [and that damn horse] as if insects, ants or some such, with much milling around and busy in great distraction, yet curiously well intentioned. Surrounded as I was by rooftops and birds and then above me and around only air and light, I felt that at last I could perhaps grasp the stars themselves…”

Extract:   ‘The Diary of William Bull’  ?? May 1828

attrib: William H David’s ‘The Bull family of London’ pub 1847

[ed note: The ‘he’ is Charles Green a noted balloonist of the period]