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Walking Class Hero
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
I’m prepared to bet that anyone who regularly walks around towns or cities will have had times when they felt like a second-class citizen…
Tags: policy, urban walking, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Roll Credits
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Pinewood Studios can be found in Iver Heath, about 20 miles northwest of London just outside of the Chilterns. Although you can’t actually wander around the studio complex itself it’s still a pretty good location for a countryside walk with a difference.
Tags: Chilterns, Harry Potter, Peter Jackson, Pinewood Studios, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: True Grit
Friday, January 15th, 2010
For a joint Met Walkers and Hampstead groups walk over 70 punters pitched up at Richmond station at 10.30 in the morning. A heaving mass of 4+ layered, gore-tex wearing, gloved and hatted walkers with breath steaming from their mouths.
Tags: Capital Walkers, hair of the dog, New Year Resolutions, snow, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Tales of the Riverbank
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Welcome to Walking Class Hero a regular blog about walking and the walking environment. Whether you like walking on your own, with friends or in an organised group this blog will cover it. It’ll embrace walking in cities and towns [...]
Tags: Donovan, Eel Pie Island, Himalayan Balsam, Lightning Seeds, Lindsey Buckingham, Monty Python, Seething Wells, Steve Hackett, Steven Wells, Thames, Thames Path, The Jam, Trevor Baylis, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: And the View’s So Nice
Friday, September 4th, 2009
Welcome to Walking Class Hero a regular blog about walking and the walking environment. Whether you like walking on your own, with friends or in an organised group this blog will cover it. It’ll embrace walking in cities and towns [...]
Tags: Blur, Camden, cat, Dan Brown, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Liberty, Noel Gallagher, Parliament, Ramblers, Regents Canal, Sir Lawrence Chubb, Somers Town, walk britain - Great Views, Walking Class Hero
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In England’s Purple and Pleasant Land
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Today I’m in Shoreham – a very pleasant and picturesque village in the River Darent valley not far from Sevenoaks in Kent. I’m told the name derives from ‘estate at the foot of a steep slope’…
Tags: Golf, Lavender, Lullingstone, River Darent, Roman Villa, Samuel Palmer, Saxon, Shoreham, The Ashes, Walking Class Hero, William Blake
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Walking Class Hero: That’s Not My Name
Friday, August 7th, 2009
At the risk of going all Parklife on you, these days: I get up when I want, except on (every other) Wednesdays, when I go to sign-on.
Tags: butterflies, Canbury Gardens, Ham Common, Jam, Job centre, Local community, music, Parklife, Richmond Park, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero – Southern Accents
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
I saunter off down the hill whistling Police’s Walking on the Moon while contemplating the irony that Michael Jackson is more famous for moon walking than Neil Armstrong.
Tags: Archibald Corbett, Ducks, Lewisham, Michael Jackson, Moon Walk, Pagoda, Sun Dial, Tom Petty, Unemployment, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: This side was made for you and me
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
The commentary at the top of every Walking Class Hero tells you ‘Basically if you can walk there it’ll be in this blog’ but this entry concerns a place where you mostly can’t walk.
Tags: Bayham Abbey, Billy Bragg, East Sussex, Kent, private, Ramblers, trespass, Walking Class Hero
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Walking Class Hero: Cake Walk
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Doesn’t the world seem a better place when the sun shines? It just makes you want to get out and go walking – provided of course you’ve slapped on your sun screen, plonked your hat on your head and perched your sunnies on your nose.
Tags: Add new tag, Cake, Canary Wharf, Cup Final, Cycling, football, Get Walking Day, Greenwich, Thames, Walking Class Hero
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