Up the Cally

(1 customer review)

King's Cross Tube (meet by the taxi rank)

Guided by Philip

Walk Times

Day Walk Type Start Time End Time
24 March 2024 Tour du Jour 2.30 pm 4.30 pm Winter Reserve Online

Up the Cally’ – stories and legends of the Caledonian Road

Meet your guide – here’s Philip’s podcast about the walk.

 

UP THE CALLY – THE PRACTICALS

To go on the Up the Cally walk meet Philip at 2.30 pm on Sunday, March 24 by the taxi rank of King’s Cross Station. The West side (front).

X marks the spot — the meeting point!

An amazingly varied walk on and around the Caledonian Road featuring visual treats like a mural, a clock tower and a famous Gothic-style prison. We learn about political meetings, fashionable markets, bombs, arms caches & espionage, its larger-than-life characters like Fishy Bill, & Prince Monolulu and how it got its name. Coming right up to date we’ll find out just why it’s such a popular and cheap place to live.

1 review for Up the Cally

  1. Anders Hanson

    This is a walk I’d been wanting to do for a while as it started off in an area familiar to me (Kings Cross) but then went very much off the usual territory for a London visitor such as myself. It was a great walk showing how even, what on the surface, seems like a fairly run of the mill part of London, includes fascinating snippets of history. This is something London Walks does really well, and Philip was an excellent guide showing us places we’d never have discovered on our own.

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