A walk with the Lord Mayor in Little Venice

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A beautiful walk along the sleepy canal that was once the first superhighway bringing the bricks that built lots of London we now recognise.

Along the canal towpath, a beautiful early evening walk and delightful mix of old and new. The sleepy canal was once the first superhighway bringing the bricks that built lots of London we recognise today, and ideas too. With a start point of Clifton Nurseries - interesting history toilets and coffee!Included on this walk is Maida Vale history Alan Turing born here, the Cabman’s shelter and Victorian times, development of W2 and W9, the transport revolution, Paddington basin, the New road, "Navvies" and hard times, Byron and Robert Browning, loads of interesting locals, social diversity and contrasting housing, Paddington, Hogarth and St Mary's Church, cross the canal and a chance to talk about Sir Alexander Fleming and...a bear called Paddington and movie locations, finish up in Brunel’s “cathedral to the railway”, Brunel, GWR and the Railway age, all in 90 minutes!

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<strong>Hotel School</strong> - is a London-based charity founded in 2017 by Jeremy Goring, CEO of The Goring Hotel, and Mick Clarke, CEO of The Passage, London's largest voluntary sector homeless resource centre, investing in people who have experienced homelessness and other disadvantages to equip them with hands on experience within the hospitality industry, since its inception the programme has achieved a 70% success rate of graduates securing employment within the hospitality sector.

<strong>The Avenues Youth Project</strong> - a best-in-class youth centre who believe every child from 8 - 18 should have the opportunity to realise their potential, whatever their life circumstances, having built a safe-space youth centre in 1979 is now seeing 1,000 young people benefitting from their programmes each years.

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A walk with the Lord Mayor in Little Venice

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