Final podcast of the series
In this final episode of the series, we take you on a lop-sided perambulation through ‘remote London’ from the north-west passage at Brent Cross to the eastern Gateway on the Continue reading
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The Eastern Queen – Ilford
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Episode 2 podcast now available
Ramble your way over to Resonance fm to take a stroll in search of the Philly Brook in Episode 2 of Ventures and Adventures in Topography. Download the podcast here
Brent Cross podcast now available
This week we’ll be taking you on a drift from Golders Green to Brent Cross, exploring the liminal zones in-between, land on the cusp of redevelopment and a derive through Continue reading
Video: It Isn’t Far From London
This video was shot on a walk for the episode on SPB Mais’s It Isn’t Far From London published in 1931, it it cut together with some audio excerpts from Continue reading
The Northern Heights Necropolis
“Those who walk see most” It was my co-host Nick Papadimitriou who introduced me to the expression ‘to do a Clunn’ in an email back in 2006. Nick did a Continue reading
Roxeth and the lands beyond Harrow
T L Bartlett’s The Story of Roxeth dates from 1948 and has been subsequently reprinted in paperback format. The dust jacket on the original depicts the author’s notion of a Continue reading
North O’ Euston
James Bone’s The London Perambulator published in 1925 gave me the title for the documentary that I made about my co-host Nick Papadimitrou (before we did this radio show together). Continue reading
Afoot on the Roding with Pathfinder
To date we have not been able to discover the true identity of the Evening News’ walking guide, Pathfinder. Afoot Round London, his two volume collection published in about 1911 Continue reading
Episode 2 podcast now available
In this episode John and Nick take a topographical ramble through the pages of The Fringe of London by Gordon S. Maxwell published in 1925. They hold this book as Continue reading
