Brentford, Chiswick & Hammersmith – 2018

Brentford, Chiswick & Hammersmith: On Thursday twenty seventh December 2018 we nonetheless had lots of Christmas extra to stroll off regardless of having made our regular Boxing Day stroll the day earlier than. However we had adopted that with a second Christmas dinner.

That is nonetheless certainly one of my favorite walks in West London and consists of numerous stretches I’ve typically walked through the years in a single path or the opposite, often in the course of the occasions of 12 months when days are brief and we don’t wish to spend a lot time in travelling. And in the course of the time between Boxing Day and New Yr, rail journey is usually one thing of a lottery with a lot of the community being shut down for engineering work.

Even our brief journey to Brentford was affected in 2018 and the same old direct practice service to Brentford – our gradual path to Waterloo – was not working. However we may take a practice to Twickenham and go the remainder of the best way on the highest deck of a bus, at all times probably the most attention-grabbing methods to journey in London. And the bus did take us extra conveniently near the place I needed to begin this stroll, on the bridge which takes Brentford Excessive Road over the Grand Union Canal.

Brentford was once a fairly soiled downmarket industrial and industrial centre, with sheds and warehouses, factories, docks on the canal and the place this enters the Thames, a thriving market, a big fuel works and extra. It has modified dramatically within the final 40 or so years with a lot of its river and canal sides now full of luxurious flats. Components of the previous Brentford stay however an increasing number of is disappearing, together with some issues in these footage I made in 2018. I’ve been there just a few occasions since and it stays an attention-grabbing stroll.

Extra on My London Diary at Brentford to Hammersmith. Right here I’ll merely put up just a few photographs with captions from a number of the key locations alongside our route aside from the image on the high of the put up they observe roughly within the order I took them, although we did fairly a little bit of wandering round in Brentford.

In Hammersmith we took the District line to Richmond after which a practice again house to sort out a number of the leftovers from our Christmas lunch.

Extra on My London Diary at Brentford to Hammersmith.

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