event details
Event Organiser
Organisation:
Walk London
Contact Name:
Walk London - Winter Wanders 2012
Contact Number:
0870 240 6094
Contact Email:
info@walklondon.org.uk
Organisation URL:
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Paved with Gold
Where is it?
| Meeting Point: | exit of Sloane Square tube station |
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| Finishing point: | Westminster |
| Region & County: | Greater London |
When is it?
| Date: | 28th January 2012 |
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| Start Time: | 10:45 |
What kind of walk is it?
| Duration: | 2 hours |
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| Length of Walk: | less than 5 miles |
| Walk Description: | Where the Upper 3,000 Live! The rich are different said F. Scott Fitzgerald. How and where they live...well, it's a pretty fruity ensemble. And it's all here in this walk...this kaleidoscope of how the other tenth lives. For this is the London of salons and Dukes and Duchesses and Noel Coward and Mozart (and, indeed, Baroness Margaret Thatcher). The London where the feet of the servants are soft on the carpet and the world's wind scarcely stirs the leaves of The Times and the walls are thick as a century and the gossip is 24-carat and Her Majesty is a neighbour. The London where the secrets are empurpled and extravagant...and scandals burn with a gem-like flame. And that's not to mention the creature comforts...the bricks and mortar. Well, needless to say, architectural vintages don't come any better than SW1 at its best. Put it all together - shaken not stirred by Stephanie - and it makes for a consummate |