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City of Westminster and Clerkenwell & Islington Guide. Social history walks. Walthamstow & Chingford walks too. Booking details for all my public guided walks and tours are here: linktr.ee/joannawestminsterwalks

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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 17h
This Sunday at 12pm and 2pm Join me in #Walthamstow to discover the history of this amazing building www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
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Chingford Historical Society @chingfordhist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Book to watch online here. Just £3 for non-members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/acorn-film...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wood Street #Walthamstow is full of surprises. Join me this Saturday 3 October to traverse the area known at one time as 'On the Forest' to separate themselves from the slums at the other end. The photos give clues as to other sites with secrets to tell. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just a few spaces left for my 2pm town hall tour today. #Walthamstow. More dates added on 3rd Sundays. This month’s date is different to avoid Open House. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
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footprintsoflondon.com @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Join us this Bank Holiday weekend to discover the scandals of St James's, the secrets of Walthamstow art & industry in the East End and a tour of #Greenwich footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @capitalwalks.bsky.social
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’ve never been in that pub although keep meaning to as have been told they do a good roast. It changed its name to the Dovecote in 2014 which made sense with Pimp Hall Dovecote nearby. However since 2021 it’s been The Dove.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We have various versions of this story in Chingford. This 1968 leaflet published by @chingfordhist.bsky.social is worth reading and explores possibilities for the stories’ origins.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Did a quick recce for a #Chingford walk I’m doing on Sunday and although I’ve passed this spot multiple times I’ve never stopped to admire St Peter & St Paul Church from this angle!
Church and spire in a churchyard with many gravestones
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/07/2026
Okay that’s funny
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I don’t often go via #Woodford Station so that’s my excuse for not noticing this mosaic and sign before. I did know about the Pankhurst local connection but it should be more widely broadcast.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If you missed my recent “Secrets of Wood Street” #Walthamstow walks join me on either Thurs 13th or Sat 22nd August to discover the area once known as “On the Forest”, also the site of early film studios, a “hidden” church etc with @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/waltham-f...
A Commonwealth War Grave for Grace Zenobia Collins
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Last two performances today of The Merry Wives of Windsor with #TheGreekTheatrePlayers in #Walthamstow. It was a fantastic evening. I have been attending for years and am so lucky to live nearby. Don’t forget to take a cushion! www.greektheatreplayers.co.uk
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Outdoor Theatre | GreekTheatrePlayers | London
Outdoor Shakespeare in Walthamstow London. Entertainment, Arts, Culture. London borough of Culture 2019. http://www.greektheatreplayers.co.uk
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
AI fail!! We might share a name but I am definitely not an expert psychiatrist!
AI Overview text describes walking tour in Walthamstow led by Footprints Guide Joanna Moncrieff whose account this is. Accompanying image shows expert psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Join me at 11am-1pm tomorrow in #Walthamstow to discover some of the area’s fascinating history. We will of course include the original village of Church End, the famous market and the former Granada but did you know diary writer Pepys was a regular visitor? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
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Walking Tour - From Monoux and Morris to Beer and Bacon Jam
Explore the ups and downs of Walthamstow's history on this guided walk with Joanna Moncrieff
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’m really looking forward to my annual visit to see the Greek Theatre Players in #Walthamstow next week. From 22nd-25th July 2026 they will be performing The Merry Wives of Windsor. Entrance is at the bend on Woodbury Rd E17 9SB. Tickets are on the door only. www.greektheatreplayers.co.uk
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Still a few spaces for next Sunday’s tours of #WalthamForest Town Hall Join me to explore this fascinating building www.eventbrite.com/o/8725855292...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Sounds great!
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Argh dropped 60+ Oyster in grounds of St #Marylebone Church at start of walk. In Rail200 card holder. Annoyingly when I noticed later someone on my walk remembered seeing it on the ground! Why didn’t they say something! Hoping someone googles me! Although I’m not the only JM!
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is a bit niche but has anyone else come across depictions of £ s d on ceilings of civic buildings like this in #Walthamstow? The foyer originally had a counter for rate payments etc. I’m doing tours this Sunday if you would like to see this in person! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
Pound shilling and pence signs on a circular plaque The foyer today showing the ceiling decoration
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I know you don’t generally cover streets but did you know there’s a Gresley Close in Walthamstow close to the Pumphouse Museum? He has some illustrious neighbours in other street names too - Newton, Cockerell, Whittle, Telford, Brunel and William Marshall! www.openstreetmap.org/way/4675056#...
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London Remembers @londonremembers.com · 19/06/2026
The great locomotive engineer Nigel Gresley was born 150 years ago today.
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Sir Nigel Gresley - Hadley Wood
{Main plaque, around pictures of Gresley and Flying Scotsman and Mallard locomotives:} Sir Nigel Gresley 1876 - 1941. Sir Nigel Gresley lived in Hadley Wood in 1923 - 29 and used this station daily. H...
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Chingford Historical Society @chingfordhist.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This Thurs 18 June at 7.30pm join us to hear Allen Packwood, Director of @chuarchives.bsky.social talk about Winston Churchill & his connections with Essex & Chingford. In person & online. Image: “Woodford Churchill” by @diamondgeezer.bsky.social CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winston-ch...
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Winston Churchill and Essex including his connections to Chingford
With Allen Packwood, Director of Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
An unusual font at @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social #Walthamstow substack.com/@joannawestm...
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On Tuesday whilst visiting St Peter-in-the-Forest in Walthamstow I came across this unusual font made out of a Wild Service Tree. I think the wording is: “In grateful memory of 3 faithful servants of ...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I had a fantastic day at the #AntiquesRoadshow at #ValentinesMansion yesterday. It was so well organised and we were so very lucky with the weather. Found out my Georgian looking rummer glass is from the 1970s (at least I can use it now - a perfect glass for a large g&t)!
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thanks for mentioning my walks! They are both sold out but I’m hoping to repeat them later in the summer.
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Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We're holding a meet up in London on 1st July. It doesn't matter if you're an author, broadcaster, tour guide or general hustler, you're more than welcome as long as you work in history and aren't part of academia (sorry lovely academics!) DM us for location as places are limited!
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
That’s made me think of this plaque and tree that have lasted longer than the courthouse they commemorate. It was demolished in 2022.
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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is glorious. (From the British Museum, Midsummer 1939.)
A letter to British Museum staff, written in Midsummer 1939, advising various departments not to lower their dress standards in the heat.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I saw this last night. @thejinkx.bsky.social was absolutely amazing! The standing ovation at the end said it all.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Next Sunday 17th May at 12pm or 2pm join me on one of my monthly tours of #WalthamForest Town Hall in #Walthamstow. My research continues so no tour is ever the same! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
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Waltham Forest Town Hall Guided Tour
Guided tour around the interior and exterior of Waltham Forest Town Hall with qualified guide Joanna Moncrieff
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Next Sunday 17th May at 12pm or 2pm join me on one of my monthly tours of #WalthamForest Town Hall in #Walthamstow. My research continues so no tour is ever the same! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
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Waltham Forest Town Hall Guided Tour
Guided tour around the interior and exterior of Waltham Forest Town Hall with qualified guide Joanna Moncrieff
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Chingford Historical Society @chingfordhist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Join us at our next meeting on Thursday 21st May at 7.30pm for ‘Breaking Bread, bakeries in #WalthamForest with Lucy Harrison and Alan Crown. As usual this will be both in person in N #Chingford and online via Zoom. Just £3 for non-members www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/breaking-b...
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Breaking Bread, Bakeries in Waltham Forest
Talk by Lucy Harrison with Alan Crown
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I’ve gone down a bit of a rabbit hole with these two #bollards! My initial thoughts were that MBS was a parish but I now realise they refer to the former Metropolitan Borough of Stepney. The newer one is outside the old Jewish soup kitchen and the other in Lolesworth Close. Both E1.
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footprintsoflondon.com @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In 1897 a medical officer said Chingford was ‘cut off to a great extent from the rest of the world’. It's obviously not cut off now but it has a very different history to its neighbour Walthamstow. @westminsterwalks.bsky.social explores #Chingford on Monday. Book at footprintsoflondon.com
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What are your plans this #BankHoliday Monday? Why not join me on a walk around N #Chingford. Hear about a cast of characters that includes Queen Victoria, Lawrence of Arabia & Ivor Novello. The walk includes traversing former field boundaries via public footpaths www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...
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Walking Tour - From Pimp Hall to Ale House Field (Chingford)
A bank holiday walk exploring Chingford's history from forest village to London suburb with an unexpected cast of characters along the way.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Thank you. I will do so.
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Chingford Historical Society @chingfordhist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Next Thurs 16 April @ 7.30pm we’re looking fwd to hearing Claire Weiss & Geoff Nicholls talk about their book (w Peter Ashan) “Slave-Trade Abolition & Leytonstone House: the Sansoms, the Buxtons and Black History”. Book to watch online. Venue details on link too www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slave-trad...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Not a relative but I’ve just found this bizarre story in War Cry newly digitised by the #BritishNewspaperArchive. Can you help @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social ?
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I know it’s been gone a few months but I’m still feeling sad that the Beryl Swain mural in Wood St, #Walthamstow has been painted over.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Am in Embankment Gardens wondering about the significance of this bench inscription “Donated on behalf of The People of Gibraltar” and have found this website “Open Benches”! I might have to add it. openbenches.org/location/Uni...
Bench with inscription “Donated on behalf of the People of Gibraltar”Bench in front of statue of Robert Burns
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
£ s and d on the foyer ceiling in #WalthamForest Town Hall in #Walthamstow Find out more about this and the building’s other fascinating history on one of my monthly tours. 2 spaces left for 12pm tomorrow. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Just spotted this old 38 bus in #Chingford! Looks like it’s on its way to this heritage bus day www.londonbusmuseum.com/route-38-her...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I will!
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Don’t know if it’s just had a spruce up but Clapton Station on the #WeaverLine is looking very green. Waiting room door too. Compare it to dull beige at Hackney Downs.
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This Sunday!
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My popular “From Monoux and Morris to Beer and Bacon Jam” walk returns on both Sunday 22nd February and Sunday 29th March. Discover some of the fascinating history of #Walthamstow on a route taking in the highlights. Limited places. Booking in advance only. www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/waltham-f...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Unexpectedly available - two tickets for my tour of #WalthamForest Town Hall #Walthamstow this Sunday 15th February at 2pm. After this date the next spaces available will be on 19th April. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
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Waltham Forest Town Hall Guided Tour
Guided tour around the interior and exterior of Waltham Forest Town Hall with qualified guide Joanna Moncrieff
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
More dates announced! Booking is now open for my tours of #WalthamForest Town Hall up to and including September 2026. February and March are already sold out! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waltham-fo...
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WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Researching for a Christmas walk in Spitalfields led me to discover that in the early 1900s via a @mirror.co.uk charity appeal a men’s hostel in Quaker St was known as The Palace of Pudding. Thanks to @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social and #BritishNewspaperArchive westminsterwalks.london/the-palace-o...
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The Palace of Pudding - Westminster Walks
In Quaker Street off Brick Lane in the early 1900s there was once a building known as the Palace of the Pudding.
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Islington Guided Walks @islingtonwalks.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Look at these views! Join us this Saturday 13 December at 2pm on a tour of St Mary’s Church & Tower Upper St. We will share its 1,000 year history + you will see the best views of London from the top! Details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/st-mary-is... #stmaryislington #Islington #islingtonhistory
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