fozelek says:

We’ll start off at Brompton Cemetery in West London, following a request from a previous photowalker.

Yes, a cemetery just before Halloween!

It’s a famous location, but one that’s off the usual tourist routes, and hopefully it’ll be new to some people.

There are some ivy-clad and overgrown graves as well as interesting headstones and impressive colonnades. Hopefully autumn leaf colour aplenty, with squirrels and crows darting about for the nature photographers.

To quote the website: “Nestled among the spectacular trees and undergrowth are over 35,000 gravestones and monuments. The cemetery is alive with the amazing stories of all the people buried there since the 1830s, including some well-known names like Emmeline Pankhurst and John Snow.”

We’ll then jump on a tube from West Brompton up to High Street Kensington, stroll down to the old Commonwealth Institute, now the Design Museum, for all the architecture fans.

Then it’s through Holland Park, via the Japanese garden for a bit more nature and people watching.

At the top of Holland Park you can bail out for the central line at the eponymous tube station, or we’ll wend our way up Portobello Road market. Hopefully by that time the crowds will have dropped to manageable levels for the street photographers, and we’ll finish at Ladbroke Grove tube for the Circle Line.

Timings and logistics:

It’ll be on Saturday the 29th (a Saturday in order to catch Portobello market. And no, there isn’t a Chelsea home game)

On the route there’s numerous cafes, pubs and toilet options, and we’ll try and squeeze in a drinks break depending on timings. The whole route should be accessible, and people will have a number of options if they only want to do part of it.

Meeting place: Fulham Broadway tube station is in a shopping centre, so let’s meet outside on Fulham Road at 2pm. Sunset is 5.40, so that’s plenty of time.

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All tube stations mentioned are in zone 2.


All welcome, no charge.

Sorry for the short notice, and I hope you can come along!
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