“The two hours of the walk passed remarkably quickly, sped by Tom Bolton’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the borough.” SAVE Britain’s Heritage newsletter, Jan 2018
I lead walks tracing London’s lost rivers and vanished neighbourhoods. Do contact me if you would like to arrange a walk.
Most recently…
Revealing the lost River Walbrook
Ratcliff and Limehouse Lost walks
Lost London Bridge walk with the Museum of Walking
A dark October evening was the ideal setting for a walk exploring the vanished neighbourhoods around London Bridge Station: Horsleydown, once known as ‘London’s Larder’; St. Olave’s, featuring in ancient Norse myth, the herring trade; Bridge Without, a ghost City ward; and St. Thomas’s, the site of a hospital that is no longer there. Once the centre for London’s brewing trade, pottery, and leather production, the lost landscapes of industry and wharves that dominated the riverside until remarkably recently were thoroughly explored.
Online walks
The Royal Geographical Society Discovering Britain site has two of my walks in online versions:
Lost East End ties together the lost neighbourhoods of Wellclose, Ratcliff and Limehouse Chinatown in an East End epic. It’s a glimpse of the Vanished City.
St.Pancras Trail goes behind the sheen of redeveloped King’s Cross to located Old St. Pancras and some of the least visited places in central London.
Past highlights
2016 walks
The Lost Tyburn
Old St. Pancras – Discovering Britain
Forgotten Camden – Camden People’s Theatre
2015 walks
Lost Aldwych – Museum of Walking
Norton Folgate Lost – Museum of Walking
Old St. Pancras – Museum of Walking
The Lost Fleet – Totally Thames
The Lost Tyburn – Totally Thames
2014 walks
Walk the River Fleet – Cities Methodologies, UCL Urban Lab
River Peck & River Tyburn, Totally Thames
Walks along the Rivers Fleet, Neckinger, Tyburn, Walbrook
2013 walks
Rivers Effra, Neckinger and Walbrook – Mayor’s Thames Festival
2012 walks
River Tyburn walk for Kerry Andrew’s Lost River Songs, Handel House Museum
Revealing the River Neckinger – Talking Walking
City of London Rivers Walk – Whitechapel Gallery
2011 walks
Lost Rivers of Hampstead, Camden Players
Release the Walbrook, Rethinking Cities
2010 walks
The Lost River Fleet, Atlas Obscura
