please empty your brain below
Although I shouldn’t be commenting on it as it isn’t on the B127, from their website (yes I clicked!) Metropolis seems to be no longer a strip club. I wondered what had happened to it since its garish neon signs (which were a landmark from the train) were taken down.

It seems to have become an ironic hipster night club.

dg writes: updated, thanks.

Dan | 16.02.22 - 7:11 a.m. | #

The White Horse is also vaguely of interest - if you compare the linked photo of it from its days as a pub with its current state, you can see that it's had an extra floor added. It was done about 10 years ago, and I'm quite impressed with how seamlessly they did it.

martin | 16.02.22 - 7:17 a.m. | #

Gosh, the flowering cherry is very early!

Liz | 16.02.22 - 8:00 a.m. | #

Perhaps proving my point, all three comments so far are about things not quite on the B127.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.02.22 - 8:06 a.m. | #

B132 -> A3211. I wonder what change in the layout prompted the change from a road zone 1 number to a zone 3 number, or is one of those numbers a non canonical quirk?

MilesT | 16.02.22 - 8:21 a.m. | #

And here's another one that isn't about the B127. I think it's stretching it a little bit to describe Lombard Street in the context of the roads radiating from Bank Junction.

DavidC | 16.02.22 - 8:25 a.m. | #

The White Horse extension is indeed impressively seamless. You can see it happening in the google streetview history.

Ian | 16.02.22 - 8:42 a.m. | #

Liz - The cherry in flower is the variety Winter Flowering Cherry and is in flower at this time of year, not to be confused with the spring time cherry.

Sara | 16.02.22 - 8:43 a.m. | #

The B127 continues to be comment-resistant.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.02.22 - 8:44 a.m. | #

Its probably only me who would enjoy seeing the date of the White Horse's neatly accomplished 2012 extension on its new storey above its original 1888 lintel but skip that it would look pretentious.

Noel | 16.02.22 - 9:53 a.m. | #

My walk to school many years ago. Off the bus in Hackney Road and along to the Gatehouse - which in those days (early 70s) was fully Montessori for all ages and you pretty much did what you wanted.
Cheers DG & the B127.

Tufty | 16.02.22 - 10:25 a.m. | #

I'm trying to get my head around why people would want to remember Edmund Bonner.

Caroline | 16.02.22 - 1:58 p.m. | #

Well, that fooled me: I saw a reference to Sewardstone Road before I spotted the road number and was surprised that you had been out to Chingford.
My mistake, it wasn't the Sewardstone Road that goes out to Waltham Abbey.

But thanks for a good read as always.

g.chingford | 16.02.22 - 1:58 p.m. | #

Don't sell yourself short, like Frank Carson it's the way you Tell them Write them.
It's you after all that does the walk and then the you are the one who does the research all so we have something to read.
You bring a down to earth view of everyday life, I for one always read your blog.

Michael | 16.02.22 - 2:17 p.m. | #

Well if you can mention a former hospital and the palace of a murderous former cleric, there’s always the poignant history of the former Bethnal Green Workhouse whose address if not frontage was on Bishop’s Road aka Bishops Way on land previously owned by the Sotheby family now known as the Wellington Estate.

Rich G | Homepage | 16.02.22 - 2:36 p.m. | #

Actually Lombard Street does start at the Bank Junction, and King William Street does not, although I suspect the bit by the junction was never a B-Road.

yerrong | 17.02.22 - 5:45 a.m. | #

I drove along the full length of B127, unintentionally, on New Year's Day this year.

If there had been a proper signpost on Old Street underneath the old Shoreditch (NLR) station, I would have turned left there onto A10 north (my intended route) so would have missed the delights of B127. I didn't see much of it as it was dark, I was concentrating on the road and also trying to work out where on earth I was. Thank you for telling me what I didn't see.

John M. | 17.02.22 - 10:08 p.m. | #

Here's something that's happening on the B127: some unnecessarily complicated walking and cycling infrastructure that'll please nobody, including an advisory cycle lane on the wrong side of the road.

martin | 18.02.22 - 9:37 p.m. | #

I love the historical details of the missing roads, thanks for including these. In other news, I am reeling from discovering that there are apparently two roads both numbered B3330 - one in Winchester, the other on the Isle of Wight. I am really not sure how this can possibly be!

cau1khead | 19.02.22 - 7:13 p.m. | #











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