The Friday Hill House Mystery

Having lived in Waltham Forest most of my life (Highams Park whilst growing up, Walthamstow for a couple of years and North Chingford for the past 15 odd years) I thought I knew this area pretty well. However researching for my local walks for the Appetite Festival in...

Wood Street Tall Tales

Traipsing the streets of E17 yesterday in preparation for my Walthamstow walk for the Appetite Festival on 1st June I stumbled across an amazing piece of street art. The title is Wood Street Tall Tales and is by Vic Lee. A picture of the whole art work can be found...

Hidden Chingford (to me anyway!)

I’ve just started working on two local walks that I will be doing as part of the Appetite Festival in June. The theme will of course be food & drink but not having done walks in either Chingford or Walthamstow before I’ve been reading a lot to get...

Do you know where this is? Walk places to win!

Yesterday I took a different route through an area I thought I knew intricately and stumbled across this sculpture group. In the 3 years that I have been guiding in this particular area I had somehow never ventured down this road. It’s amazing what can be found...