London Walks in Easy English
Thanks for reading London Walks in Easy English. If you’ve used the book in your travels around London, I hope you’ve enjoyed it. Please get in touch with your comments and suggestions. In the meantime, below are some links to help you get the most from the walks. They’ve been chosen not for their beauty or technical perfection but because they’re referred to in the book and add to the subject matter.
Royal London
William and Kate kissing on the balcony of Buckingham Palace
Royal Mews preparing for the Royal Wedding
Catherine Middleton arriving at Goring Hotel
Market London
Hop-pickers travelling to Kent in the 1950s
Shopping London 1
Extract from 101 Dalmatians – Roger in Burlington Arcade (at 2-minute mark)
River London
Fireworks over London Eye on New Year’s Eve
Builders working on Blackfriars Bridge from barges on the river.
Theatre London
Extract from the musical Cats, filmed at the Adelphi Theatre.
James Bond fencing in Die Another Day; part 1; part 2.
Shopping London 2
First ever version of Alice in Wonderland, released from Cecil Court in 1903.
Extract from Big Trouble in Little China, which Dansey St in London’s Chinatown may remind you of.
Transport London
Historian Dan Cruickshank finding stones from the Euston Arch in a builder’s garden.
Dan Cruickshank finding more stones from the Arch in the River Lea.
Clever London
Extract from The Mummy Returns, showing Gordon Square in London.
Extract from the Alfred Hitchcock film Blackmail, showing the Reading Room of the British Library.
The song Feed the Birds from the film musical Mary Poppins, showing a model of St Paul’s Cathedral.
Government London
Rats running in Downing Street in the background of a news report.
Scenes from the film The Bounty. Captain Bligh is buried in the churchyard of St Mary’s Lambeth.