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Feb 26, 2022 • 32 tweets • 14 min read • Read on X
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About to put these on for a @TrussellTrust #RaceAgainstHunger training walk, chosen in my Twitter poll. Before the 12 miles from the Marathon course start on Blackheath to the Shard via Woolwich, I’ll do 8 miles from Euston to Blackheath. Bring on 2 April.
trusselltrust.enthuse.com/pf/neil-tester… Walking trainers.
It felt rude to take a photo so you’ll just have to believe me when I say I hadn’t got very far south of Euston when I saw possibly the most British thing ever: a town crier in full regalia and carrying a Waitrose bag. Stay tuned for more exciting megawalk updates…
About 5 miles in and the Shard’s in sight. I’ll be back here in 15 miles’ time. Nice day for a walk. Also a good day to support @TrussellTrust #RaceAgainstHunger if you can:
trusselltrust.enthuse.com/pf/neil-tester…
#TeamTrussell The Shard.
Guess where I am now…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wot_Cher!… "Wot cher!" all the neighbours cried, "Who ye
TBH I’ve had more picturesque strolls than this one along the A2. Road sign: Welcome to Lewisham.
Honestly, this wasn’t me. First time I’ve been along New Cross Road in years. Royal Mail offices with the word ‘Tester’ spray-graffiti
What the L? Remains of painted advert on side of house. The ‘L’is mi
Bottom of Blackheath Hill. Somewhere up here’s the house where my paternal grandmother was a cook before WWI. The master of the house was in the Magic Circle, and family lore says she cooked for this gent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Lin….
I still have the tin trunk she took into service. Blackheath Hill.
This climb’s just the tonic after 8 or 9 miles.
Finally on Blackheath and nearly at the start of the Marathon route. This is Hollyhedge House, where my Territorial Army dad was called up aged 18 over Munich and again aged 19 a few days before WWII. Thinking about the Ukrainian teenagers now doing the same, except untrained. Building across grassy common.
Used to sail my yacht here. A toy one. I’m not an oligarch. Also apparently the site of my grandad’s dog’s leap into the pond from the top deck of an open-top bus. Bad dog, Prince! Roadside pond surrounded by trees.
Know why this bit of Blackheath, by the Greenwich Park gates, is lower than the rest? Worn down by the poor donkeys carrying 1970s SE London kids up and down. I’ve got photographic evidence at home, I think. Fenced-in grass track leading to park gates.
At the Marathon start now, so 12 miles to go to the Shard via Woolwich. I’ll be starting my solo walk of the 26-mile Marathon course from here on 2 April, once I’ve walked the mile from Blackheath Station. All for @TrussellTrust #RaceAgainstHunger. trusselltrust.enthuse.com/pf/neil-tester…
London cycle network sign. Woolwich 2.25 miles. Welling 4.75
Just entering Charlton Village. Here’s Charlton House. Uncle Joe used to help organise the annual charity Horn Fair in the park behind it. Quite a big chunk of this walk turns out to go via Memory Lane… Jacobean mansion house - Charlton House.
You can tell if someone’s from SE London if they pronounce Charlton and Greenwich correctly. It’s Choletun and Grinij.
Walking down Kinveachy Gardens, Charlton. Realised this is where we came to eat at the flat of Dad’s colleague, Eileen, when I was about 9. She told me to read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Looking back, I need to thank her for getting me to step up the reading ambition.
This is as far East as the Marathon route goes on the South side of the river. Turning briefly North now before heading West towards the Shard. Road signs at entrance to Woolwich. Woolwich Town Hall behin
Here’s the Woolwich Odeon, which holds my 1st memory of going to the pictures. Snow White (not on its first release!). Just recalled the bit where the Queen transforms. May need lie-down. But must press on and turn West along the river. Next door’s The Mitre, Uncle Ernie’s local. 1930s cinema, now an evangelical church.Disused pub: The Mitre.
Subliminally influenced to buy an appropriate snack for the Marathon route? Fingers holding Snickers bar.
Ohhh, I’ve been waiting to reach this bit. Gwen Villa in Felltram Way, my dad’s first home in 1920. There used to be a tram depot at the end of the road. Toddler Dad got stuck in the tracks and his big brother Arthur got him out of the way of a tram. Arthur didn’t live to see 10. Row of 4 terraced houses.Cul de sac with same houses.
Many an early-90s night out in Greenwich started and/or ended a few yards down Woolwich Road at Dilum’s and Mandy’s flat. I can hear The Shamen and Paul Weller and taste Polish plum brandy (if taste’s the right word). This is getting like one of those “Wanna feel old?” things… 3-storey terraced houses (converted to flats).
Usually I’d look askance at someone blasting music from a convertible BMW along Trafalgar Road, but in this case it’s (a) a brilliant track and (b) precisely the right tempo to walk to:
Just off Trafalgar Road is the old Greenwich power station where Uncle Henry worked before he went on the railways. Almost in Greenwich proper now. Brick building with large brick chimneys.
One for the Thor fans… Greenwich Royal Naval College (now University of Greenwich)
Reached the Cutty Sark so just this stretch to go now. How do people *run* this route? 👏 to them. Cutty Sark, entrance to foot tunnel and view of Docklands skRoute from Cutty Sark to the Shard, via Surrey Quats, Rother
Singing along with @PetulaClarkHQ as I go: Street sign: Downtown Road, SE16, London Borough of SouthwarRoute map showing position between Surrey Quays and Rotherhi
I have eyes on the target. Time to start thinking about what to do when I arrive… Illuminated tip of the Shard in the distance behind houses.
…so when I get to the Shard, shall I celebrate with:
There’s always a boss level at the end of the game… Street sign: Boss Street SE1. Illuminated tip of the Shard b
And he’s there. Thanks for the support along the way. Now, as instructed by Twitter poll participants, some food and a beer or 2. Then Tube, train and a final mile home. So that’ll be 22 miles today. Feeling confident about the 26-mile push on 2 April: trusselltrust.enthuse.com/pf/neil-tester… 🤞 Shot looking up from the base of the Shard, lit against the
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