Walk for October - Wilton's Music Hall

This month, we took a walk to Tower Hill and Wapping. We got the train to Fenchurch Street and walked through Tower Hill Memorial to get to the Tower of London. At the Tower, we watched the volunteers planting the ceramic poppies to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War. By the 11th November, there will be 888, 246 poppies for each person who died in the War. It is a truly magnificant sight which takes your breath away.

Next we walked to the gorgeous St. Katherine's Docks. We walked along the bridge and admired the boats moored in the dock as well as the Queen's Row barge, Glorianna. We stopped for coffee in the Dickens Inn.

We walked a short distance to Wilton's Music Hall. Jody gave us a tour around this hidden gem in the East end of  London. She told us the history of how Wiltons was built in 1700 as an ale house and transformed into a music hall in the 1800s. Afterwards it became a Methodist church until the 1960s. Finally it remained untouched until 2004 when it became a charitable trust and it started back as a music hall again. We will keep an eye out for the shows in the future.

After a walk in the rain to Wapping, we had a bite to eat at The Prospect of Whitby. It is the oldest riverside pub dating back to 1520. We then caught the train from Limehouse back to Barking.

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