Transport: Tower Hill is served by District and Circle Lines, and has Tower Gateway DLR and Fenchurch Street Mainline Stations just around the corner. Battersea Power Station is the terminus of a branch of the Northern Line.
Late Start Points = Early Dropouts are aplenty: Monument/London Bridge, Cannon Street, Mansion House, Embankment/Charing X/Waterloo, Westminster, Vauxhall.
Illuminated River is an artwork by light artist Leo Villareal which illuminates a number of Central London Thames Bridges with the help of cutting edge LED technology and custom software, producing sequenced patterns across the bridge structures.
Currently, 9 bridges are included in the artwork with either new or revised lighting schemes, those are: London Bridge, Cannon Street Railway Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Millenium Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Golden Jubilee Footbridges, Westminster Bridge and Lambeth Bridge. They are joined along the walk route by 5 others: Tower Bridge, Vauxhall Bridge, Grosvenor Railway Bridge, Chealsea Bridge and Albert Bridge. These bridges have mostly been lit to good effect for a long time anyway without being part of the artwork, but are nevertheless projected to be included in it at some point with a different lighting pattern.
For more information on the artwork, its creators, maps and drone photos and videos, click here to get to the project’s website.
Short Walks - The route from Tower Hill to Battersea Power Station enables only views of Tower Bridge and Albert Bridge, but leads under or across the other 12 bridges. Plentiful Underground and Mainline Stations as well as bus stops on or just off the route enable shorter walks.
Refreshments:Various restaurants, bars and cafés are passed en route and there is plenty of choice at Battersea Power Station, either inside the former Power Station or along the new streets around it and in the adjacent railway arches.
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4 comments:
Moonrise is not till 20.12…
we better walk slooooowly then...
The weather today was as forecast, down here in Zone 1/2 boundaries: some snow over lunch, which had melted away by mid afternoon, with temperatures then briefly dropping towards freezing but then rising in the evening, making for a slightly challenging mixture of ground conditions on this walk: some dry patches, some wet, some melting or melted snow patches, even some icy ground. But no one slid into the river or fell over.
n=4 men assembled with 1 having a ticket at the BFI for 20.35, so we all diverted to a pub just before the Southbank Centre for a meal. He then scooted off, while us 3 walked on. 1 departed at Vauxhall bridge for a train home.
After our dinner it had started to drizzle, and by now it was kind of raining, so once at Battersea Power Station, we went straight to the tube without further food or drink.
Some more parts of the new or re-established riverside path have been openend where Tideway works have finished, so it's now just the Blackfriars site (but that looks near finished as well), plus of course the Wandsworth Council waste site that is blocking the riverside.
w=cold-start-ending-warmer-with-drizzle
Oh:
- with the closed cloud cover, the moon made no appearance whatsoever, of course;
- the lights for the illumination on Southwark Bridge weren't working (they still did just b4 Xmas).
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