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I worked in the area till last Friday :) The Ewer street arch (just before you enter the private alley) has a hidden music venue with one-off events. And then in the next street there is a very long car park along several arches, looks great on a photo.
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I guess BR need to get as much income from their railway arch spaces as possible. So probably the income from boxing clubs no longer sustainable.
I think in Brixton there has been developments around the rail arches causing upset amongst the existing tenants as their rents are going up about 300%.
John | 02.10.17 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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I feel like there's a bit of an obsession with the High Line in London and this is almost some sort of parody but nevertheless it's a very interesting slice of town, I was there by chance last Friday but didn't even see a single sign.
Kevin | 02.10.17 - 8:29 a.m. | #
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I love stumbling upon the Crossbones Graveyard which is my usual method of encountering it!!
Cornish Cockney | 02.10.17 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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"Emblandening." Good word.
Milo | 02.10.17 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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On their own, the blue Low Line markers aren't very self-explanatory: they need to include 'Walk' otherwise they look like they're something to do with water pipes or flooding, a sort of Plimsoll Line !
Pedant's Corner: they've got it wrong, it's just Palestra, not Palestra House.
Gerry | 02.10.17 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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"vibrant foodie warren"
"gourmet clusterhub"
Put down your press release and step away from the PR manual slowly.
Wouldn't it be more interesting to have a trail named "Low Life"?
I'd walk that one.
drD | Homepage | 02.10.17 - 12:13 p.m. | #
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I've only noticed a couple of the signs but thought they ere something to do with the down river Thames Barrier (or more likely if it didn't work). As you say there are many other interesting spots just off the trail that don't get a mention. Obvious ones around the start include the old WInchester Palace (which also has a WInchester Geese plaque), Golden Hind, The Clink...They are also all close to the railways/viaducts around that area. Perhaps they would tempt people to walk along the river instead?
rashbre | Homepage | 02.10.17 - 5:01 p.m. | #
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Although the demise of the boxing club may not be far off, the wrestling school will probably last longer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaestra
Now we know what goes on in the new HQ of TfL.
City Worker | 02.10.17 - 5:50 p.m. | #
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That Low Line name's still bugging me. Why must everything be a cheap rip-off of New York, (cf. Mid-Town)? It's also too similar to 'Low Life'.
It's not even accurate because one would expect to be able to walk along the bed of a former railway: imagine something like this without the tracks. (Sadly, the street is far less colourful in the latest view.)
<- Rail Trail -> would have been much better.
Gerry | 02.10.17 - 10:23 p.m. | #
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I work just up the road from Southwark; spotted one of the plaques on the arch of Dolben Street and thought it sounded interesting, but having read your piece it seems a visit to Crossbones is all that's worth doing!
Stuart Keenan | 03.10.17 - 12:53 a.m. | #
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The leaflet describes the walk as "London Bridge to Southwark", perpetuating the anatopistic* naming of the station at the junction of The Cut and Blackfriars Road. The soi-disant "Southwark" station is a long way from the heart of Southwark itself (the borough that grew up around the south end of London Bridge), for which the closest stations are Borough and London Bridge, and indeed "Southwark" station is partly within the neighbouring borough of Lambeth. The seemingly arbitrary end of the "Low Line" is the borough boundary.
*anatopism - the geographical equivalent of an anachronism
timbo | 03.10.17 - 11:38 a.m. | #
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Verily, timbo, the Low Line does indeed terminate at the borough boundary, however Better Bankside's administrative boundary is not specifically borough-related, and does not include the arches to the west of Southwark station.
* analtopism - the interjection of seminal facts to assert superiority
diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.10.17 - 12:10 p.m. | #
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There's still a nightclub at Flat Iron Square - http://www.omearalondon.com
zappomatic | 03.10.17 - 9:46 p.m. | #
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Its a walk I know well and love. But it should not be compared to the High Line in any sense. I visited NY last month and saw the High Line at night. Its stunning. Superbly executed. Very high quality. The "Low Line" barely exists.
Ian B | 05.10.17 - 12:39 p.m. | #
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"...The map's also hard to follow because south is at the top, and the roads you're supposed to walk along aren't named."
The latter part of that sentence had me shaking my head!
On the plus side, that leaflet does at least have some charming illustrations.
Mike Hall | Homepage | 05.10.17 - 3:14 p.m. | #
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Weird to see my work neighbourhood on here. The changes in this area have really accelerated in the last couple of years. I feel for the ordinary people in the numerous estates surrounding these new hotspots – the right to quiet and even dark evenings (what with the giant new LED advertising hoardings going up) seems to be receding fast. And I hate – with a vengeance – the colonising of the pavements by new eateries in the most thoughtless way with their quirky tables, chairs and planters and the resulting queues of oblivious customers on the way home that block the remaining space making it impossible to pass. Even more thoughtless when it’s next to bus stops and on narrow pavements.
On a positive note, the freshly made falafels from that tiny hole in the wall are amazing, one of my more happy discoveries during an exploratory walk recently following said markers.
E1W-er | 10.10.17 - 1:17 p.m. | #
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