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Moments from the walks — the corners, the characters and the odd surprise.

Marylebone

Sole surviving John Nash church, used by the BBC
Safe from the Body-snatchers?
Entrance to a Gentrified Victorian Slum
The world-famous area for medical treatment
Blitz stories
Scandal !
Progress!
Art Deco BBC headquarters
The Scottish trend-setting brothers
Part of the workhouse
Built in 1775 as a new, model workhouse
Male inmates in their yard
The birthplace of British cinema
The world's first underground train
Construction of the world's first underground railway

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He spoke up for the under-dog!
Cross me at your peril!
Genius work-a-holic!
The 'mother of feminism'
Intelligent, vain, self-indulgent and wildly extravagant!
The great satirist of Georgian London

Soho

Retro couple a la francais!
The Merry Monarch
The most famous pub in London
If you last to the end of the tour....
Great-great-great-great Uncle Joseph Roads, tallow chandler of Greek Street
Karl Marx's lodgings in 1850s
Birthplace of espresso café culture
Baked on the premises
First French patisserie and café in London
Me in action
Soho Square
Child prodigy stayed here
Birthplace of Rock n Roll!
Please give generously
Bargain!
European agitators were here!
Artists and bohemians abound!
One of the Many Courts of Soho
The picturesque entrance to Soho
Hospital for Women, Soho Square

Windsor

Windsor castle's back door
The tipsy house!
Pardon the pun
Susie's Tales & Trails

London walks, told properly — history, anecdotes and a bit of gossip.

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Images via Wikimedia Commons — the 2i's Coffee Bar, 1963 by Tony Hall (CC BY 2.0) ; Bar Italia, Frith Street by Spudgun67 (CC BY-SA 4.0) ; the Crooked House by Jersey Pearl (CC BY-SA 4.0). Charles II by Thomas Hawker, c.1680, and the resurrectionists by “Phiz” (Hablot Knight Browne) — both public domain. The CC-licensed photographs have been cropped and resized; no other changes were made.