Thu, 12 Jun 2003

author Tim	location Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales
posted 21:41 BST 18/06/2003	section Europe2002/Europe/UK/England/London/Working in London 2 ( all photos )

Whitehall Walk ( 43 photos )
Going back what seems like a long long time to Thursday 12th, I took my camera into work to capture a few last snaps of the area. This rapidly paid off, as they were filming a period commercial using some of the old Victorian buildings near work, as well as there being a life-size human table football game. This consisted of people paying money to be strapped to large metal bars, and work as a team to chase a ball left and right across the table. Very strange to watch.
The real reason I had taken the camera was to do the last of the Eccentric London walks we intended to - around Whitehall. Friend from work Mark accompanied us around the area.
My work at Spitalfields was smack-bang in the middle of it, and I was glad that we hadn't chosen to this walk earlier, because right at the exit of my work was one of Jack the Ripper's murder sites! We tramped around quite a few other interesting places including the Blind Beggar pub (still containing crimson carpet incase anyone wants to commit a third murder there), the house of the freak-of-nature Elephant Man, a closer look at Christ Church, and the Dickensian Artillery Passage, all riddled with plenty of gory history. Liz was dying for a Brick Lane curry (that's the place to go if you want a curry in London), so we partook in one of the random places which seemed to have a suitable menu. It was great.

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