The Cat’s Back is now displaying its Joe Goodwin plaque outside where there is a long seat.
The fine Harvey’s pub is in Point Pleasant, between the River Wandle and Wandsworth Park, and a good stopping point on autumn day.
The only other Harvey’s of Lewis pub in London is the Royal Oak in Southwark, a short walk from the river down Borough High Street and left at St George the Martyr into Tabard Street.
The Thames Path at Purley has been improved.
The walk along the busy main road from the former Roebuck pub to the Skerritt Way residential road has been reduced. Now one can leave the road early and walk through Purley Beeches rather than following the road to a bus stop and walking down a flight of enclosed steps.
The directions will now read:
“Turn right through the gate in the flint wall (right) to follow a woodland path down to Skerritt
Way. Continue ahead along the road.”
This plan has been around since 1982, before the estate was completed. The wood is in the care of Purley Beeches Residents Association which levies a voluntary household fee towards the cost of maintenance.
The Thames Path, west of Southwark Cathedral, runs along Clink Street passing the remains of Winchester Palace’s Great Hall.
With two walls and the floor missing the wine cellar is open to the air. Now the area, which once collected rubbish, has been partly filled with plants.
London SE1 has the full story and history of the building.
The new foot and cycle bridge upstream of Reading Bridge has opened.
The crossing links the towpath with Christchurch Meadows and provides a pleasant walk for those wishing to reach Caversham.
However, it has met with a mixed reception.
Reading cyclists are dismayed that there is not a segregated cycle lane.
Also, the design of the ramp fencing means that walkers on the Thames Path briefly lose a river view.
Meanwhile, although there has been a formal opening by the Mayor of Reading, the bridge has not been given a name.
Suggestions being considered by Reading Council include Meadows Bridge, Christchurch Bridge, Fry’s Bridge (after upstream Fry’s Island) and de Montford Bridge (after Robert de Montford who won a joust on the island against Henry of Essex).