Comments on: In Search Of The Walbrook

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 18:54:03 +0000

In the early 1970s, I knew a teacher of mechanics at Shoreditch School, who showed me a couple of mysterious tunnels running from the basement of the old building at the school. He and a colleague had explored them a little but stopped when they came to a point where the tunnel met a series of other tunnels going off in seemingly different directions,one toward Shoreditch Church. I’ve never found any reference to these. He had also had experience of what he thought was a haunting in that building, which he connected to the asylum hr thought the building was used for.

By: Bill Cahill

Bill Cahill — Fri, 21 May 2021 18:17:33 +0000

Perhaps you have read, or perhaps you have not, read “The Water Room” by Christopher Fowler, published in 2005. It is a murder mystery tied up in the lore of London’s underground rivers. Amusing, I thought. You might like it.

By: Robin Call

Robin Call — Fri, 21 May 2021 17:56:31 +0000

Beautiful photos and interesting backstory. Also I just read in the BBC that the Bethnal Green Mulberry is now legally safe from harm. Congratulations on such a worthy campaign. Thank you.

By: JOHN CAMPBELL

JOHN CAMPBELL — Fri, 21 May 2021 15:25:07 +0000

Fascinating. Many thanks.

By: Marsha Brown

Marsha Brown — Fri, 21 May 2021 13:21:21 +0000

(I apologize if I have already sent you this comment. )What about those tokens– is that a Celtic thing, — just expand please,

By: Jennifer Newbold

Jennifer Newbold — Fri, 21 May 2021 12:50:02 +0000

You teach me something almost every day, G.A. Unlike its more famous counterpart, the Fleet, I had never heard of the Walbrook River. I greatly enjoyed walking its course with you. I agree wholeheartedly; there is something powerful and humbling about the fact that we can cover over the rivers and subsume them to our will, but those rivers will endure after we are gone… both as generations, but perhaps indeed when our species is gone from this earth.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 21 May 2021 12:07:22 +0000

Thank you for taking us along on another fascinating excursion — both “above” and “beneath”.
Once a film buff, always a film buff — and the photo by Steve Duncan reminded me of the many harrowing, below-ground, through-the-tunnel chases I have seen in movies. Just like Duncan returning with his photographic trophies, film makers have paid tribute to these mysterious waterways with memorable results. Think: Orson Welles splashing and gasping his way in “The Third Man”.
Here I sit, comfy and dry, having my morning coffee and your post has taken me into the slimy
depths below one of the world’s most remarkable cities.
Thank you, GA, and Steve Duncan. Stay safe. And dry!

By: Michelle G

Michelle G — Fri, 21 May 2021 11:25:37 +0000

This route is familiar, having tried to ‘find’ the river myself last time I was in London. There was a Roman mosaic, found beneath the church, mounted on the entrance wall of St. Stephens Walbrook. It is in the shadows on the right as you go in, so accessible even when the church is closed. Most surprising.

Mudlarking (with permit in hand now, of course) via Cousins Lane near the area where the Romans landed and the Walbrook met the Thames seems like a good spot to look for Roman glass and pottery, etc.

Great photos. Don’t blame you for staying at street level!

By: Kelly Holman

Kelly Holman — Fri, 21 May 2021 09:28:38 +0000

Thank you for this fascinating meander along the lost river. It was such a pleasure to read and enjoy this morning.

By: Eve McBride

Eve McBride — Fri, 21 May 2021 07:48:44 +0000

The old Foundation School on Whitechapel Road was later named Walbrook College until the site was redeveloped as the Davenant Centre. I never gave any thought as to the origin of the name, so thank you for this most interesting article.