Saturday, 29 June

The Garden Village of Pimlico Walk

Explore how Pimlico has been shaped in the 18th to 21st centuries.

By Barbara Wright from London Guided Walks

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Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT+1

Location

Pimlico

Rampayne Street London SW1V 2JA United Kingdom

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About this event

The garden village of Pimlico has some surprising designs that are worth seeing. Explore how Pimlico has been shaped in the 18th to 21st centuries. Discover peaceful landscapes as well an awesome 20th century architecture design.

The garden village of Pimlico has some surprising designs that are worth seeing. The area features peaceful landscapes with stunning white stucco squares and lush gardens, as well an awesome 20th century architecture design.

This walk explores how Pimlico has been shaped by some important and influential planning, housing and design ideas in the 18th to 21st centuries. All in 90 minutes.

Hear about how master builder Thomas Cubitt created the Pimlico district. Get under the skin of this remarkable neighbourhood; where Londoner’s really live, away from the hustle and bustle, and yet only a stone’s throw from the country’s political centre.

Apart from Cubitt’s squares and terraces you will be introduced to some architecturally iconic schemes of the 20th century together with issues in the public housing movement in the UK over time, right to the present day.

The brilliant and often forgotten post war writer and Observer architecture critic Iain Nairn lived in Pimlico and we will hear how he led a campaign about the importance of buildings in shaping society in positive ways.

Pimlico has stunning stucco houses and garden squares, quaint churches and is an undiscovered part of London to explore in detail with us on this fascinating guided walk.

The walk finishes at Tachbrook Street market, a short walk to Victoria station, the perfect place to get your foodie fix. There are a wide variety of multicultural food stalls to choose from including Japanese, Turkish, Jordanian, South American-style and more besides. You can also get your meat and fish supplies in at the regular butcher and fishmonger. Don’t forget your fruit and veg too.

Unique walking tour
Discover a serene part of London
Qualified City of Westminster guide
Start: Pimlico Tube Station

The walk finishes at Tachbrook Street market, a short walk to Victoria station, the perfect place to get your foodie fix. There are a wide variety of multicultural food stalls to choose from including Japanese, Turkish, Jordanian, South American-style and more besides. You can also get your meat and fish supplies in at the regular butcher and fishmonger. Don't forget your fruit and veg too.

Read more in Barbara's blog post: https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/tachbrook-street-market/

Organised by

Barbara Wright from London Guided Walks

City of Westminster Tour Guide

London has always been a city of double personalities. It is home to many iconic landmarks but it also means that you’re never more than ten minutes from somewhere new!

I grew up outside London, but arrived in the big smoke in the late 1970’s, somewhere I had always wanted to live. Once here, I promptly set about exploring this beautiful metropolis that has captured my imagination like no other place could ever do.

Guiding is my passion. I am a fully qualified City of Westminster tour guide. I’m ready to show you London in all its glory, where you can see and learn about how this great city works. I’ve been guiding for the last couple of years, generally covering historical and cultural walking tours in Royal, Tudor, restoration, Regency and 19th century London (especially Westminster) and central areas with other neighbourhoods such as Soho, Covent Garden, Marylebone and Belgravia.

A special interest of mine are London open spaces. I have spent many years campaigning for better services to my local park, Streatham Common, being chair of the Friends of Streatham Common when the open space campaigning took place. Streatham Common is partly officially designated as a Local Nature Reserve, and was originally part of the ‘Great North Wood’ but was saved from development by being designated a Metropolitan Common in 1884.It also has the Rookery walled garden which was originally the site of a fashionable spa and which was opened to the public in 1913 as formal gardens.

My experience as a qualified town planner with a post graduate certificate Urban Design certificate has given me ample opportunity to work in London’s housing and regeneration planning so that I can offer guidance which comes from practical experience, with more than five years’ worth of research into the difficulties plaguing our current cityscape alongside its benefits for everyone else, some of it working for Westminster Council on Westminster regeneration estates. Together we’ll explore how best you might make your neighbourhood better through architecture or social history (or both) both if that interest you!

As an amateur musician, I also run walking tours with a music theme (particularly classical) and the entertainment industry.