In message 01c886d8$f2b70e00$LocalHost@default, Michael R N Dolbear
writes

Ian Jelf wrote

Well, this is British Tourism Week and a whole host of London Blue
Badge
Guides are providing free walks on various "Great British" Themes
around
the capital.

I - for my sins - am doing "Great British Villains", a walk around
Whitechapel and Bethnal Green in the steps of the Kray Twins tomorrow

afternoon and - although transport interest is limited to the Bethnal

Green Tube Disaster, anyone from utl coming along would be moist
welcome
and please do say "hello".

The walk starts at Whitechapel Underground Station at 2.00pm and ends

back there around 4.00pm.

I thank you Ian for a very interesting walk as do, I am sure, the 50
others who came.
You are very welcome and it was good to meet you.

We were around the 60 mark, by the way, which was rather more than I'm
used to dealing with.......

Your reference to the afternoon queues at the municipal baths in the
days where everyone worked a half day Saturday reminded me that the
timetable of the Waterloo&City may still show this historical influence
by closing early on Saturday.
Yes, why *does* that persist on the W&C? LU must have noticed
relatively few bankers on Saturday mornings by now. And not all of
them are wearing Bowlers these days, either.

In my personal transport diary today was my first ever trip East of
Aldgate
Interesting, isn't it??!!

(except one visit to QMC at Mile End) on the H&C or District. I
also observed several persons trying to work out from the posters what
"replacement bus" meant in the context of a journey south of the river
from Whitechapel.
It was ever so, even when the ELR *was* running, in my experience.
Whitechapel seemed always to have more than its fair share of confused
people!

I've now been asked to do another of these walks for *next* year.
Nothing like getting in ahead of schedule, is there?
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk