A Walk with the Lord Mayor is a monthly programme are running with the Lord Mayor in his chosen areas of Westminster.
Guided tour of cosmopolitan and historic Bayswater. Named ‘Tyburnia’ by the property developers of the 1840s, dubbed ‘Asia Minor’ in the 1880s for the ex-colonials living there and ‘Little Athens’ for the 1950s influx from Greece, it’s been both grand and seedy over the years and still is. It is now where St Petersburgh Place sits between Moscow Road and Kiev Street.
Once a shopping area to rival Oxford Street, with the great Whiteley’s Department store at its centre, the walk sees that great building transformed, and passes one of the most convincing fakes in London. There’s a synagogue, a church and an Orthodox Cathedral all on one street.
This circular walk can stray into the north side of Kensington Gardens to see some public art and heritage horticulture.