{"id":4320,"date":"2015-05-16T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2015-05-16T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T09:27:00","slug":"river-walks-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/2015\/05\/river-walks-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"River Walks Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The River Walks Festival ran last month &#8211; a celebration of London&#8217;s rivers. Footprints of London told the stories of these rivers and how they have helped shape London history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The festival opened with a talk by author Caitlin Davies about her new book Downstream A History and Celebration of Swimming in the Thames at the historic Prospect of Whitby pub in Wapping<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4375\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nail-prospect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4375\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nail-prospect.jpg\" alt=\"neil sinclair prospect of whitby\" width=\"526\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nail-prospect.jpg 526w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nail-prospect.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neil Sinclair opens the River Walks Festival at the Prospect of Whitby<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Caitlin told many great stories of those who have braved the Thames waters, including Agnes Beckwith, the champion lady swimmer of the Victorian period, who Caitlin is currently writing a novel about.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4376\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/caitlin-prospect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4376\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4376\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/caitlin-prospect-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Caitlin Davies\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/caitlin-prospect.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/caitlin-prospect.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caitlin Davies talking about Agnes Beckwith<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The walks kicked off the next day with Jenni and Dave leading an epic two part walk along the River Tyburn.\u00a0 The people who completed the walk had a great time when they reached the Thames, and they were to become familiar faces during the festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tyburn-completed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4377 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tyburn-completed.jpg\" alt=\"river tyburn walk\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tyburn-completed.jpg 599w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tyburn-completed.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We received this great comment about this walk<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Yesterday I did two linked walks with Footprints of London as part of their River Walks&#8217; Festival and had a great day following the route of the now hidden Tyburn River from Hampstead all the way down to Pimlico. Jenni Bowley and David Brown were great guides: the perfect blend of confidence and kindness, with a very clear enthusiasm for what they do and a wealth of researched knowledge and practical experience that really made me feel like I was in safe hands!&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We dedicated April 23rd to Shakespeare, it being his birthday and being one of the Thames Banksides famous residents. Neil Sinclair led the second walk of the day &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not often you&#8217;re upstaged by a court jester. But that&#8217;s what happened, briefly, during my River Festival walk Shakespeare on Bankside.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The walk was timed to coincide with Shakespeare&#8217;s birthday celebrations on 23rd April. And our timing was near perfect. An actor dressed as Touchstone from As You Like It pranced in front of the Shakespeare memorial in Southwark Cathedral just as I \u00a0began to wax lyrical about the theatrical connections between the bard and what was, in his day, St Saviour&#8217;s parish church.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Touchstone is one of the many characters from Shakespeare&#8217;s plays to be depicted in the splendid stained-glass window memorial in the south aisle of the cathedral&#8217;s nave.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shakespeare-memorial2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4382 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shakespeare-memorial2-968x1024.jpg\" alt=\"shakespeare memorial2\" width=\"806\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shakespeare-memorial2.jpg 968w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shakespeare-memorial2.jpg 284w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shakespeare-memorial2.jpg 1612w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shakespeare-memorial2.jpg 2418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rob and Jenni were lucky enough to have ITV news economics editor Richard Edgar along on their day long walk along the River Fleet<\/span><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/richard-edgar-Image-0006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4383 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/richard-edgar-Image-0006.jpg\" alt=\"richard edgar\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/richard-edgar-Image-0006.jpg 625w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/richard-edgar-Image-0006.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">All the people who came along on Tina&#8217;s walk and foreshore session went home with an interesting find from the Thames. The event was made in conjunction with Thames Discovery archaeologist Nathalie. As well as the archaeological finds they took these great photographs<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-bird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4384\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-bird.jpg\" alt=\"queenhithe bird\" width=\"498\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-bird.jpg 498w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-bird.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-missb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4385\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-missb.jpg\" alt=\"queenhithe missb\" width=\"301\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-missb.jpg 301w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-missb.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-rope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4386 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-rope.jpg\" alt=\"queenhithe rope\" width=\"501\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-rope.jpg 501w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-rope.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-tina.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4387 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-tina.jpg\" alt=\"queenhithe tina\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-tina.jpg 599w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queenhithe-tina.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rob headed further east on his walk looking at Maritime Blackwall, and visited the Leamouth peninsula &#8211; home to many interesting and surprising sculptures, like this &#8220;taxi tree&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leamouth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4388 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leamouth.jpg\" alt=\"leamouth peninsula\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leamouth.jpg 600w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/leamouth.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s what one person said about the walk<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This is a great walk to a part of London few of us have ventured, or even knew existed&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jen would like to congratulate her Moselle Mosey group on their singing of the Tottenham Toad.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is a 400 year-old folk song about a Tottenham lad (toad) who\u2019s courting an Enfield lass (squirrel) but the Moselle keeps flooding and causing him problems. An appropriate ditty as we followed the course of the river along Tottenham High Road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Tottenham Toad came walking up the road,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With his feet a-swimming in the sea,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8216;Pretty little squirrel with her tail in a curl,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">They&#8217;ve all got a wife, but me.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">There\u2019ll be another chance to learn this song when Jen leads the next Moselle Mosey later in the summer.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moselle-mosey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4389 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moselle-mosey.jpg\" alt=\"moselle mosey\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moselle-mosey.jpg 600w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/moselle-mosey.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rob is lucky enough to have a personalised steam engine at the start of his Industrial History of the River Lea walk!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/robert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4390 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/robert.jpg\" alt=\"Robert steam engine stratford\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/robert.jpg 600w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/robert.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">People on the walk heard about the amazing history of innovation along the River Lea &#8211; it has a claim to be the home of the industrial revolution \u00a0as strong as any other place in Britain. As one of the walkers said <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Who would have thought that industrial architecture of the Lea Valley could prove so interesting.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The River Lea splits into three different tributaries in the area and on the walk Rob showed people some remains of the banks of the now buried Channelsea River<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/channelsea-river.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4391\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/channelsea-river.jpg\" alt=\"Channelsea River\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/channelsea-river.jpg 600w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/channelsea-river.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The River Walks Festival finished with Sue&#8217;s walk looking at Canning Town and beyond. As well as some moving stories from wartime Canning Town the walk took in some visual high points like the Royal Victoria Dock Bridge and Thames Barrier Park<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dockerstodevelopers4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4392 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dockerstodevelopers4-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"dockerstodevelopers4\" width=\"806\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dockerstodevelopers4.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dockerstodevelopers4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dockerstodevelopers4.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9064-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4393 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9064-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9064 (1)\" width=\"806\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9064-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9064-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9064-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9098.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-4394 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9098-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9098\" width=\"806\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9098.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9098.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9098.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Down by the Thames Barrier was a great place to end the festival, after 88 miles of walks along 9 of London&#8217;s rivers it felt like the end to a journey. Thank you to all the people who came on the walks. Obviously we will have lots more walks throughout the summer, but our next themed festival of walks will be Literary Footprints on 8th-22nd October<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/tyburn-completed.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The River Walks Festival ran last month &#8211; a celebration of London&#8217;s rivers. 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