Doc does London 2025 ( or wants to 🤔 ) - Thursday 13th March - A date for your diary
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Off you f***. The lot of yuz….
No fekkin nibbles or shit at my place.
But we’ll find all of you Norvan kaaaantz somewhere to feed your faces and get your fill of soft southern shandy
Plenty of real Laaahduners here have some good ideas.
I’m just happy to join and tag along and enjoy
Me I’m always happy with a curry up Brick Lane
No fekkin nibbles or shit at my place.
But we’ll find all of you Norvan kaaaantz somewhere to feed your faces and get your fill of soft southern shandy
Plenty of real Laaahduners here have some good ideas.
I’m just happy to join and tag along and enjoy
Me I’m always happy with a curry up Brick Lane
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Bloody hell cant we call in to freshen up.Off you f***. The lot of yuz….
No fekkin nibbles or shit at my place.
But we’ll find all of you Norvan kaaaantz somewhere to feed your faces and get your fill of soft southern shandy
Plenty of real Laaahduners hear have some good ideas.
I’m just happy to join and tag Alina and enjoy
Me I’m just happy with a curry up Brick Lane
and who's Alina ? One of Steptoe's mates ?
Typo. Corrected.
Actually although not Laahdun, Harveys is a nice drop at the Town of Ramsgate, Wappers´ local and a regular meeting place for the South East Laaaahdun section.
....and i am partial to a drop of Old Wallop, this is the session beer brewed for a pub chain called ´´Davy´s´´
and one of my favourite pubs in London, albeit in the City is down Artillery passage and is called the Grapeshots. I think Chasmil of this parish and regular Tosser is well familiar with it.....
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I was in Chelsea, Kensington and Battersea Power Station (£7.60 for a pint of beer) with my wife on Sunday.
Haven’t seen any attractive women, but mostly plastic types. Nice area though for a wonder about.
Haven’t seen any attractive women, but mostly plastic types. Nice area though for a wonder about.
I hope to get out, around the New Year (depending on the DLR / river bus timetables etc) to ‘Do the East side’ recce.
I’ll start it at 09:30 from Tower Gateway, with the first stop at the Thames Barrier, then work my way back to say St Paul’s or Holborn / British Museum. I’ll also try to find a pub or two along the way. As it might interest others on the forum, I’ll try to ping the result up here, to give those that can’t take part, a snapshot of what they’re missing.
Then, I’ll try to ‘Do the Wesr side’ recce, too. Having it all done in time for Doc’s visit to the smoke.
Having in mind that one person alone, will travel around quicker than a group of five or six, I’ll try to be realistic with the times it’ll likely take a group. This might mean shortening bits up. That doesn’t really matter, as the ‘missed must do’ sites won’t vanish in our lifetimes.
I’ll start it at 09:30 from Tower Gateway, with the first stop at the Thames Barrier, then work my way back to say St Paul’s or Holborn / British Museum. I’ll also try to find a pub or two along the way. As it might interest others on the forum, I’ll try to ping the result up here, to give those that can’t take part, a snapshot of what they’re missing.
Then, I’ll try to ‘Do the Wesr side’ recce, too. Having it all done in time for Doc’s visit to the smoke.
Having in mind that one person alone, will travel around quicker than a group of five or six, I’ll try to be realistic with the times it’ll likely take a group. This might mean shortening bits up. That doesn’t really matter, as the ‘missed must do’ sites won’t vanish in our lifetimes.
I know when you do your Doc tour you will be on foot but a nice little route is from The Royal Arsenal DLR or Uber Boat, take your push bike and cycle the south bank to Greenwich. You'll pass the ferry, the barrier, under the cable car, past the O2 on to Greenwich Naval College. There's lots of art installations lots of old historic buildings, wharfs and three riverside pubs similar to the Town of Ramsgate, the Hope and Anchor, the Cutty Sark and the Trafalgar Tavern en route. You could then either get back on a boat or train or if you've still got a bit of energy go through the foot tunnel at the Cutty Sark clipper and pop up on the north bank and pedal back home. The good thing about this route is that apart from it being slightly up hill, must be otherwise the river would be standing or running in the opposite direction, it is relatively flat.
is this gonna class as a "Wapping Wander " ?
Not my gig, as they say.
It could be worse, at least it wasn’t Pimlico.I was born and bred in Worlds End, Chelsea, (it is (or was) the poor end) . Can trace family back to 1680, looked after horses in the fields
It is not like the TV series
I’ll see if I can reschedule my visit to the office, so I can join Doc’s jaunt.
Nice one Richard
If you’re going to St Paul’s you must pop across the road into Postman’s Park and see the Memorials to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, a memorial to ordinary people who died while saving the lives of others and who might otherwise be forgotten.
Here are a few examples.
And a local boy near to where I was born.
And the modern site of the house where he lived. I did this for a Chelsea Facebook group I belong to.
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I recall working for a posh bloke who got educated at Newcastle University.Doc, Londoners are generally not as friendly as Northern folk. Remember not to make eye contact or greet them with 'Ow do, etc. You will be met with stoney silence and gruff looks
On graduating he was offered a job interview in Middlesborough and decided to take the bus.
Sat nervously on the bus in shirt and tie, he listened 2 old Geordie women nattering away in the seat behind.
Without a break in conversation, one of them reached around his neck and straightened his collar and tightened up his tie.
Only in the north east!
