London Walk, Barbican to Monument Public and Private Buildings

Date: 
Sunday, 13 December 2015 - 9:30am
Walk Leaders: 
Judith and Peter Degory
Meeting Point: 
Barbican Underground Station lower hall by the ticket barrier
Distance: 
about 8 miles
Maps: 
London A-Z
Travel: 

Underground Hammersmith and City to Barbican:
Return from Monument Station, District and Circle, or Bank, Central Line
NB You are advised check TFL for Sunday closures

Route: 

An urban walk through an area undergoing rapid change on the eastern fringe of the City.
am: post-war housing developments, Georgian streets, Bunhill Cemetery, former Shoreditch furniture district , Hoxton Square, Boundary Estate, Bishopsgate.
pm: Aldgate, Thames Path, Tower, Monument.

Lunch: 

The Water Poet Pub in Folgate Street. A room is booked for 12.30. See menu attached and PLEASE PRE-ORDER YOUR MEAL to Judith either by email jallsop@lincoln.ac.uk, or text or call mobile zero seven seven nine nine zero eight eight one two zero five by 5pm 9th December.

The Water Poet Pub in Folgate Street. A room is booked for 12.30. See menu attached and PLEASE PRE-ORDER YOUR MEAL to Judith either by email jallsop@lincoln.ac.uk, or text or call mobile zero seven seven nine nine zero eight eight one two zero five by 5pm 9th December.
The Water Poet Pub in Folgate Street. A room is booked for 12.30. See menu attached and PLEASE PRE-ORDER YOUR MEAL to Judith either by email jallsop@lincoln.ac.uk, or text or call mobile zero seven seven nine nine zero eight eight one two zero five by 5pm 9th December.

Notes: 

am Barbican north side(Chamberlain, Powell and Bon).: private housing with gardens at Frobisher Crescent above the Arts Centre with the Guildhall School of Music squeezed below.
Golden Lane: public housing with leisure facilities based on Le Corbusier’s modernist ideas.
In Chiswell Street the historic core of the former Whitbread’s Brewery (1716 onwards) remains but the buildings converted to various uses.
Bunhill Row: a glimpse of Armoury House (1734-6) a Palladian building and built for the Honourable Artillery Company.
Bunhill (Bone Hill) Cemetery: in use from 17th-19th C T. Some notable graves include Defoe, Blake and Bunyan.
Wesley’s Chapel 1778 and house are opposite the cemetery.
Clere Street: Growing House (Rogers and Tonkin Lui 2006) on top of a former warehouse.
Shoreditch Furniture District, which declined after WW2, has the remains of various building types associated with the trade.
Hoxton Market: a former Refuse Destructor and Generating Station (1895) Motto, OUT OF DUST, LIGHT AND POWER and now a circus training centre.
Hoxton Square: retains its character as a 17th C residential square – a haunt of the young and a centre for galleries and street art.
The Boundary Street Estate (1893-1900 LCC): replaced former slums with purpose-built housing for the poor though rents soon rose.
pm: 18thC housing at the edge of Spitalfields and Brick Lane. Watch out for the street art.
Between Aldgate and the Mint: some surprisingly quiet public and private housing projects.
St Katherine’s Dock and the Thames Path past the Tower.
St Dunstan’s in the East (1100): damaged in the Great Fire, gained Wren Spire and Tower but bombed in 1941. It is now a garden church.
St Magnus the Martyr (1116): guardian of the old London Bridge, badly damaged in the Great Fire and rebuilt by Wren.