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This was part of my lunchtime walk most working days between 2002 and 2017 - thanks for bringing back the memories!
Thomas Arne was reputed to have written the words to 'Rule Britannia' at the Dove. Not a song I particularly care for but I believe it to be popular in some quarters.
(And one small typo - Edward Johnston's 't' is missing. Sorry to be today's first pedant!)
THC | 27.09.22 - 7:09 a.m. | #
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Nobody is ever sorry to be today's first pedant. Fixed, thanks.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 27.09.22 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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A favourite place for a stroll, one I've done many times usually carrying on to Twickenham to cross the river and return via the south bank path. The pubs you've name-checked are some of the most expensive outside of the West End.
Frank F | 27.09.22 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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Eric Ravillous’s watercolour’River Thames at Hammersmith’ 1933, shows Chiswick Eyot and a car in the foreground.
Sara | 27.09.22 - 8:08 a.m. | #
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I had an impromptu wander onto Chiswick Eyot on a late winter day last year on seeing the tide out. The wellies are definitely advised, the ground throughout was very wet!! It didn't seem like much of it pokes above water on a spring tide.
Nico | 27.09.22 - 8:51 a.m. | #
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Oh my! You were just steps from my house. Perhaps I saw you when I was out for my walk yesterday and had no idea it was you.
I shall point out that two of the pubs you passed claim to be 300 this year, but you already know that, as you mentioned it when reviewing the Ferry House back in January.
Greg | 27.09.22 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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Yes, the flooding is a very real issue on Chiswick Mall, and you were wise to visit at low tide! I have photos of a walk I was taken on there in 1998 - on the way out all was well, when we returned it was a scene of inundation. Streetview also shows the road flooded at high tide.
cau1khead | 27.09.22 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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Strongly recommend going to Emery Walker’s house for its beautiful interior plus stories of the Doves Press and the attempted extinction of its unique typeface by hurling of type into the mud under Hammersmith Bridge.
Labourer | 27.09.22 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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You mentioned Johnston (blue plaque at No 3 Hammersmith Terrace) and the obscure Emery Walker (blue plaque at no 7) but not Hammersmith Terrace's most famous resident AP Herbert (blue plaque at no 12) - Oxford University's last MP, author of "Misleading Cases" etc
timbo | 27.09.22 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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I did this walk just last month and had stops at the Blue Anchor as well as The Rutland Arms to enjoy a view of the bridge. I loved it....
deruf | 27.09.22 - 11:55 a.m. | #
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I had a work conference in Hammersmith a year ago and so went to explore the riverside afterwards and was disappointed I'd not been there before. It really is a lovely walk and some nice pubs. I have another conference in the same place next month and so will be doing a return visit.
Anders | 27.09.22 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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Walking the whole of the Thames within London is a good tickylist task, if you've not already done it.
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Nick | 27.09.22 - 12:31 p.m. | #
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A nice walk indeed. But then you'd be hard pressed to find a Thames-side walk that isn't nice!
Cornish Cockney | 27.09.22 - 2:49 p.m. | #
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Chiswick Mall is indeed prone to tidal floods, but they are always predicted like clockwork, so you can go there at the right time.
GS | 27.09.22 - 4:15 p.m. | #
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Once saw a lady have a nasty fall at Chiswick Eyot. She had crossed at low tide with some children and then attempted to climb up the slope. Must have been very slippery as she slid down to the bottom banging her head hard on the stones in the river bed. Caution always advised with river banks.
Tones | 27.09.22 - 5:15 p.m. | #
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Had a gallon of ESB in The Dove once.
Lost my mates in Leicester Square and woke up in Brighton.
Chris | 28.09.22 - 12:48 a.m. | #
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