Nunhead Library - Myths, legends and tall tales.

CoolTan Arts' CoolWalks welcomes you along on our free guided journey through Nunhead. 

Together we'll explore, discover and share the area's hidden myths, legends and tall stories taking in the amazing Nunhead Cemetery and the views from Honor Oak.  

Learn new things, make friends, get fit and have fun.

Start inside Nunhead Library, at 11am and finish at Honor Oak around 1pm.

• Friday, 27th May 2016

Nunhead Library, Gordon Road, SE15 3RW

Bus: P12, 78  

Train to Nunhead

The walk is approximately 4 miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and to bring plenty of water, sun cream and a sun hat - we are very optimistic! 

For more details, contact Rob Larkin-Frost on 020 7701 2696, by email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or Twitter @CoolWalks.

CoolTan Arts Eccentric Dulwich CoolWalk

Interested in London’s hidden histories?  Then join CoolTan Arts, CoolWalks, on their free guided public walks around all of Southwark.  We explore, discover and share Southwark’s rich history, outstanding architecture and the amazing stories of its residents down the years. 

May marks CoolWalk’s return to Dulwich, starting in Dulwich Library a legacy of Edward Passmore. From there, together, we’ll explore the rest of Dulwich’s rich history and the eccentric characters that have lived and been associated with this fascinating corner of Southwark. 

On this free guided walk we’ll look at the area’s architecture, the college, public art, the art gallery, its many parks and much more besides. 

Come along, it’s free - although donations to support CoolTan’s work are always welcome. Together we’ll learn new things, make friends, get fit, and have fun!

Starts inside Dulwich Library at 11:00am and finishes around 1pm

368 Lordship Lane
SE22 8NB

Bus: 12, 40, 176, 185, 197
Train: East Dulwich (then 40, 176, or 185)

Saturday, 14th May 2016 meeting inside Dulwich Library

The walk is approximately 3 miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.  Participants can leave at any-time. 

If you have any queries or would like any further information please contact Robert on 020 7701 2696, via email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or tweet @CoolWalks.

Camberwell's Freedom Fighters

CoolTan Arts CoolWalks invites you to join us on a free guided walk around Camberwell and beyond to learn about the area's links to freedom fighters of the past.  Learn new things, make friends, get fit and have fun.  Whether you know the area or not, CoolWalks encourages shared experience – add your local knowledge or discover something new!

Date: Friday 29th April 2016.

Start at Camberwell’s New Library at 11am and finishes at the Camberwell Green about 90 minutes later.

The walk is approximately 2 ½ miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.  Participants can leave at any-time.

If you have any queries or would like any further information, please check the blog

- coolwalksblog.blogspot.co.uk or contact Robert on 020 7701 2696, or via email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or tweet @CoolWalks.

CoolWalk's Southwark Library tour continues.

This month CoolWalks visits Blue Anchor Library & Bermondsey. 

We explore Bermondsey, an area that contained many factories that turned the raw ingredients landed at the near by docks into our family stock cupboard favourites. 

Walk with us to learn new things, have fun and get in a bit of exercise whilst together we discover which jams, biscuits, chocolates, custards, pickles and much, much more besides, helped make Bermondsey the pantry of London; the pantry of the UK and almost each and every corner of the globe.  

We take in the site of the chocolatier's swimming pool, try not to get in a pickle about pickles and discover the cracking story of the of the great egg-stink of World War 1. 

Together we'll go on a walk of fun, fresh air and picnics. Hopefully, we'll not get too hungry.

Starts inside Blue Anchor Library at 11am and finishes around 12:30pm.

Dates:
·         Thursday 31st March 2016

The walk is approximately 3 miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.  Participants can leave at any time.

Meet:  Blue Anchor Library, Market Place, Southwark Park Road, SE16 3UQ
Bus: 1, P12, 381
Tube: Bermondsey

Many smells!
A Poem by Leslie Davidson

Smells that vary with the weather,

Smell of hops and smell of leather,

Smell of jams and smell of glue,

Smell of chocolate at the Blue,

Smell of frying fish and chips,

Smell of heavy oil that drips,

Smell of stale ice left to trickle,

Smell of vinegar and pickle,

Smell of foreign bales and bags,

Smell of damp and steaming rags,

Smell of sweat and smell of dirt,

Smell of many an unwashed shirt,

Smell of humanity

In Bermondsey.

TWISTS & TRANSFORMATION: Dicken’s London Borough

This is a walk through the streets of Old Borough and London Bridge following the ‘Twists and Transformations’ of Dickens’ early childhood. 

This walk revisits the highways and byways of early Victorian London encountering the traumatic twists in Dicken’s early years as he took his first tentative steps into this new city of opportunity starting with the debtors prison of Marshalsea and in the places Dickens frequented: the quiet graveyard of St George the Martyr, the bustling fruit and veg market, Old London Bridge. 

These places were  where his imagination grew, fed by the energy and incident of this rapidly growing city. We become aware of his acquaintance with Victorian ‘low life’, and with the twists in life, the unexpected hardships. These grand themes and encounters that he later transforms into some of the most vivid characters and plots in London’s celebrated literature: Little Dorrit, Oliver Twist, Nancy, Bill Sykes. By exploring these concealed aspects of Victorian London we come face to face with the inspirational back stories that gave birth to Dickens’ extraordinary fiction.

This free guided walks reveals something of his restless spirit, manifest in his compulsive night-walking and his feelings of ‘houselessness’.

Meet: Borough Tube (finish near London Bridge station)
Walk: Free
Date: Saturday 13 February
Time: 11am –1pm

Part of Southwark Hidden Stories Walks with CoolWalks.

Walworth Through The Ages

Walworth Through the Ages

Join CoolTan Arts CoolWalks on a free guided walk to explore Walworth through the ages, learning about the areas history and evolution over time. 

Learn new things, make friends, get fit and have fun.  

We start at East Street Library, (168-170 Old Kent Road, SE1 5TY) at 12:30pm and finish about 2:30pm at the Elephant and Castle.   Transport to library - Bus: 21, 42, 53, 63, 172, or a 453.  

• Saturday 5th December
• Thursday 17th December

The walk is approximately 3 miles and is suitable for all walkers.  We would ask participants to bring a bottle of water, wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.  

If you have any queries or would like any further information contact Robert on 020 7701 2696, via email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or tweet @CoolWalks.

Nunhead Library - Myths, legends and tall tales.

CoolTan Arts' CoolWalks welcomes you along on our free guided journey through Nunhead. 

Together we'll explore, discover and share the area's hidden myths, legends and tall stories taking in the amazing Nunhead Cemetery and the views from Honor Oak.  

Learn new things, make friends, get fit and have fun.

 

Start inside Nunhead Library, at 12:30pm and finish at Honor Oak around 3:30pm.

• Saturday, 12th September, 2015
• Thursday, 24th September, 2015

Nunhead Library, Gordon Road, SE15 3RW

Bus: P12, 78  

Train to Nunhead

The walk is approximately 4 miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and to bring plenty of water, sun cream and a sun hat - we are very optimistic! 

For more details, contact Rob Larkin-Frost on 020 7701 2696, by email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or Twitter @CoolWalks.

Eccentric Dulwich

Interested in London’s hidden histories?  Then join CoolTan Arts, CoolWalks, on their free guided public walks around all of Southwark.  We explore, discover and share Southwark’s rich history, outstanding architecture and the amazing stories of its residents down the years. 

August marks CoolWalk’s return to Dulwich, starting in Dulwich Library a legacy of Edward Passmore. From there, together, we’ll explore the rest of Dulwich’s rich history and the eccentric characters that have lived and been associated with this fascinating corner of Southwark. 

On this free guided walk we’ll look at the area’s architecture, the college, public art, the art gallery, its many parks and much more besides. 

Come along, it’s free - although donations to support CoolTan’s work are always welcome. Together we’ll learn new things, make friends, get fit, and have fun!

Starts inside Dulwich Library at 12:30pm and finishesaround 3pm.

368 Lordship Lane 

SE22 8NB 

Bus: 12, 40, 176, 185, 197 

Train: East Dulwich (then 40, 176, or 185)

Dates:

• ·         Saturday,  8th August
• ·         Thursday, 27th August

The walk is approximately 3 miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.  Participants can leave at any-time. 

If you have any queries or would like any further information please contact Robert on 020 7701 2696, via email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or tweet @CoolWalks.

CoolTan Arts CoolWalk Blue Anchor Library - Fun, Fresh Air & Picnics

CoolWalk's Southwark Library tour contines.

Hot on the heels of two successful Canada Water Library walks, CoolWalks moves from the Docks to nearby Blue Anchor Library & Bermondsey. 

Having explored the industrial history of Canada Water, we explore Bermondsey, an area that contained many factories that turned the raw ingredients land at Canada Water's quays into our family stock cupboard favourites. 

Walk with us to learn new things, have fun and get in a bit of exercise whilst together we discover which jams, biscuits, chocolates, custards, pickles and much, much more besides, helped make Bermondsey the pantry of London; the pantry of the UK and almost each and every corner of the globe.  

We take in the site of the chocolatier's swimming pool, try not to get in a pickle about pickles and discover the cracking story of the of the great egg-stink of World War 1. 

Together we'll go on a walk of fun, fresh air and picnics. Hopefully, we'll not get too hungry.

Starts inside Blue Anchor Library at 12:30pm and finishes around 3pm.

Dates:
·         Saturday 13th, June 2015
·         Thursday 25th, June 2015


The walk is approximately 3 miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.  Participants can leave at any time.

Blue Anchor Library, Market Place, Southwark Park Road, SE16 3UQ
Bus: 1, P12, 381
Tube: Bermondsey

Many smells!
A Poem by Leslie Davidson

Smells that vary with the weather,

Smell of hops and smell of leather,

Smell of jams and smell of glue,

Smell of chocolate at the Blue,

Smell of frying fish and chips,

Smell of heavy oil that drips,

Smell of stale ice left to trickle,

Smell of vinegar and pickle,

Smell of foreign bales and bags,

Smell of damp and steaming rags,

Smell of sweat and smell of dirt,

Smell of many an unwashed shirt,

Smell of humanity

In Bermondsey.

CoolTan CoolWalks – Architecture & Industry

CoolTan Arts CoolWalks invites you to join us on a free guided stroll along the canals, docks, warehouses and old and new streets of Canada Water and Rotherhithe as we:

Meet the deal porters. 
Walk London's longest street. 
Search for dolphins.
The first tunnel under the Thames.
Discover where the New World began. 
And much more besides!

Together we'll explore the area's history, it's industry and architecture -  past and present - that have shaped and made modern Canada Water.

Learn new things, share your knowledge, make friends, get fit and have fun.

Starts at Canada Water Library reception at 12:30pm and finishes at Canada Water station.

Dates:

• Saturday 9th, May 2015
• Thursday 28th, May 2015 

Tube: Canada Water, Surrey Quays 
Train: South Bermondsey 
Bus: 1, 47, 188, 199, 225, 381, C10, P12

The walk is approximately 5 miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.  Participants can leave at any-time, but we hope to enjoy your company along our entire journey. There will be a stop for a snack.

If you have any queries or would like any further information, please contact Robert on 020 7701 2696, via email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or tweet @CoolWalks.

Peckham: Art, Literature & SE15's Green Spaces

CoolTan Arts CoolWalks welcomes you along on our free guided journey through Peckham's hidden rural and literary history and to discover SE15's amazing number of green and open spaces.  

Learn new things, make friends, get fit and have fun.

We start in Peckham Library at 12:30pm and finish at Cafe on the Rye, Peckham Rye around 3:00pm.

Dates:

• Saturday 11th, April 2015
• Thursday 30th, April 2015

No need to book - just turn up.  The walk is approximately 3 miles and is suitable and accessible for all walkers.  We ask participants to bring a bottle of water and to wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.

Peckham Library, 122 Peckham Hill Street, SE15 5JR
Bus: 12, 36, 37, 63, 78, 136, 171, 177, 197, 343, 345, 363, 381, 436, P12, P13  
Rail: Train to Peckham Rye

If you have any queries or would like any further information Robert on 020 7701 2696, or via email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or tweet @CoolWalks.

May CoolWalks:- Architecture & Industry
Saturday, 9th May & Thursday, 28th May
Start 12:30pm Canada Water Library

Rebels & Revolutionaries

CoolTan Arts CoolWalks invites you to join us on a free guided walk around Kennington and beyond to learn about the area's rebellious past and some of its famous revolutionaries.  Whether you know the area or not, Coolwalks encourages shared experience – add your local knowledge or discover something new!

Learn new things, make friends, get fit and have fun.

Start at Brandon Library at 12:30pm and finishes at Lambeth Palace. Dates:

·        Saturday, 7th March, 2015

·        Thursday, 26th March, 2015

Brandon Library, Brandon Estate, 

Maddock Way, 

Cooks Road, 

London, SE17 3NH

Bus: P5, 36, 185, 436, or Tube: Kennington station.

The walk is approximately 4 ½ miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and weather appropriate clothing.  Participants can leave at any time. There will be a stop for a snack.

If you have any queries or would like any further information, please contact Robert on 020 7701 2696, or via email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or tweet @CoolWalks.