Foot and Mouth walking tours did a special for halloween. Friends being invited to hear Chris Roberts stories of the dank and seedy world of london myths and legends (embellishment suspected). We strolled along the embankments between London and millennium Bridges with stories of the patron saint of prostitutes, old London Bridge exported as an antique brick by brick (with ghosts) to Arizona, Walbrook Stairs where you could once hail river taxis (site of the Marchoness disaster) and the boundary of the Roman city, Boudicca decapitating the soldiers of a particular stronghold letting their heads float down the river - their souls lost forever, the cat mummified in the walls of St. Michael's Paternoster church built by Dick Whittington, ghosts of a bear escaped from where bear baiting took place in Bear Lane bear. Still a fine way to spend Halloween now we're too old for trick n treating.
Books by Chris:
Heavy Words Lightly Thrown
Cross River Traffic
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