@islingtonwalks.bsky.social on #LondonLocalGuidingDay one of two groups setting off for the last walk of the day.

A nice surprise to stumble on the Cambridge home of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Henry Fawcett and Philippa Fawcett the other day.

Anniversary of the death of #WilliamBlake on this day 1827 has been nicely marked in Bunhill Fields. Seems there’s a commemoration planned for Saturday. @islingtonwalks.bsky.social

Fanny Wilkinson didn’t get to design many gardens around Bloomsbury. Red Lion Square in Holborn is one of the few nearby. Very good to see the recently installed plaque there.

Philippa (brilliant mathematician, inspiration for #williammorris) one of the least known Garrett women. Harold Steward Rathbone’s portrait now in the @morrisgallery gallery used to be at 2 Gower Street, Join Sue’s #bloomsbury walk on Friday afternoon to find out more bit.ly/4deBwNL

So helpful for planning a literary walk if the author marks a fictional location on a real map! I expect it helped that when Michael Sadler wrote Forlorn Sunset who was working at his publisher.

And good to see her included in the mural on Old Church Road.

And a decade earlier the birthplace of two other notable Leytonstone women: Louisa and Harriet Martindale. You can discover more about them at Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society meeting on 19th March.

@islingtonwalks enjoying Lester Hillman’s Well Trodden walk from St Chad’s to Clerks’ Well via the Fleet

Snowdrops in Lismore Circus, Gospel Oak. #NationalSnowdropDay

Seems appropriate that this infill project in Kiln Place, only a stone’s throw from Neave Brown’s Fleet Road ( now Dunboyne) Estate, won RIBA’s Neave Brown award for Peter Barber in 2022 as well as the MJLong prize for Project Lead Alice Brownfield.

Leyton Midland Road Overground station has its new signage in time for tomorrow’s walk. Walking Tour - Suffragette Line : Leyton Midland; fields to firsts www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...