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    • Whitechapel & Bethnal Green
    • Derelict Limehouse & Poplar
    • Lost Docks of Wapping
    • Isle of Dogs
    • Grand Surrey Canal
    • London's Lost Rivers Tours
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    • Silvertown
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    • Croydon Canal
    • Dartford guided walk
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    • East Finchley to Gospel Oak
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    • Derelict London Railway Stations,Lines and Rolling Stock
    • Derelict London Trams
  • Factories and Warehouses
    • North of the Thames Factories and Warehouses
    • South of the Thames Factories and Warehouses
  • Derelict London Homes
    • Homes North of the Thames
    • Homes South of The Thames
    • Derelict homes now Demolished
  • Derelict London Cinemas
  • Derelict London Hospitals
    • Hospitals North of the River
    • Hospitals South of the River
    • Hospitals: Then & Now pics
  • Derelict London Pools and Baths
  • Music History
    • London's Lost Music venues 2
  • Various Derelict London Buildings
  • Derelict London Pubs
    • North London
    • Derelict East London Pubs >
      • East London Pubs from Dereliction to Demolition
      • East London Pubs - Dead Pubs to Conversion
      • East London Pubs Back from the Brink
    • Central London
    • West & South West London
    • South & South East London Pubs
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  • Graffiti & Streetart
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  • Shopping Trolleys
  • Derelict London Shops
  • Signs and Murals
  • Derelict London Sportsgrounds
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Derelict London - Photography, Social History and Guided Walking Tours
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Allday Woolwich Area Guided Walking Tour with Derelict London/London's Lost Rivers Author Paul Talling​​

​Allday Woolwich Area Guided Walking Tour with  Derelict London/London's Lost Rivers Author Paul Talling

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Meeting at Gallions Reach DLR at 10:30. Note: This station is in the back of beyond with no facilities & nowhere to grab a mug of tea until our scheduled cafe stop. Please check www.tfl.gov.uk before travelling as engineering works may affect your journey.

Ends at Woolwich Arsenal DLR at approx 5pm. 
We shall be making scheduled stops at a cafe and a pub (food & drink not included in the ticket price) though you are welcome to bring your own refreshments. There will be much walking and a little is off the path!! Please read the information below 

Starting off with a walk around the surrounding area of Gallions Reach and taking in some forgotten areas and dereliction plus taking in stories of the Beckton Gasworks, the Royal Docks & the site of an 1878 steamboat disaster where 600 people perished. Then we head into North Woolwich past a few interesting buildings such as some of London's oldest terraced council houses & a former pub which despite losing its upper floors during the Blitz carried on trading until a few years ago.

Around midday we hit a café for half an hour before walking to the Woolwich Free Ferry via two disused railway stations side by side and a derelict pier once graced by Winston Churchill. After our scenic (!) riverboat crossing, we embark on our adventure south of the Thames and walk around the site of the Woolwich Dockyard founded by King Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship (Great Harry), the largest ship of its day. Much of the area is now a housing estate, but there are still clues of the once thriving dockyard such as the imposing main entrance gate posts a former guard house & the 1783 Clock House and some run docks remain popular for local anglers! We then walk through a busy shopping thoroughfare which is a little unloved round the edges. We pass a few premises of businesses that defined the area such as the former Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Department Store, the Woolwich Building Society & the UK's very first branch of McDonald's.

Next up, the Royal Arsenal - the historic site of armaments manufacture and explosives research. Once a great place to see dereliction, but now it comprises one of the biggest concentrations of Grade I and Grade II listed buildings converted for residential use, with more than 3,000 residents. Here Paul will tell you about a group of engineers working in this block who formed the Dial Square FC, which later became the Woolwich Arsenal FC. You will also have time to wander around the vicinity to look at the information boards

We walk along the Thames to West Thamesmead and then follow the route of a disused canal built in 1814 by convict labour, which established the eastern boundary of the Arsenal. Here you will see the old lock gates and a derelict swing bridge. As we visit the site of Plumstead Marshes and see the site of two former Arsenal football grounds, one of which is now a brownfield site.

Finally, we head back into Woolwich via some interesting old buildings with stories that feature on the Derelict London website, where you can either head home or join Paul for a drink or two....
Wreck of a Thames Sailing Barge on The Derelict London allday tour of Woolwich both sides of the Thames
pic courtesy of Ruth Mandry
Disused pier at entrance to Albert Dock Basin on The Derelict London allday tour of Woolwich both sides of the Thames
Pic courtesy of Dawn Johnston
 London walking tours with Paul Talling routes of lost rivers/canals/docks
Derelict London station on walking tour of Woolwich with Paul Talling of Derelict London
Derelict North Woolwich Station

​The photographs of Paul Talling's Derelict London guided walking tour below are courtesy of Tim Slessor
The photographs of Paul Talling's Derelict London guided walking tour below are courtesy of David Jenner
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