Saturday, July 03, 2010
Random borough (26): Time once again for me to take another random trip to one of London's 33 boroughs. As I write I have no idea which one of the eight remaining borough names will be revealed when I unfold the slip of paper I'm about to pick from my legendary "special jamjar". I could pick any one of the other London boroughs - inner or outer, urban or suburban, small or large, fascinating or dull. I just know it won't be Merton, Islington, Enfield, Sutton, Lewisham, Southwark, Kensington & Chelsea, Hackney, Hillingdon, the City, Bromley, Lambeth, Tower Hamlets, Haringey, Hounslow, Brent, Redbridge, Ealing, Harrow, Croydon, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Greenwich, Richmond or Kingston, because they're the twenty-five (dark grey) boroughs I've picked out already.
My last four visits were all from the South, leaving Bexley as the sole remaining representative from the London-under-Thames. Even including those north of the river, there aren't many boroughs left now. The remaining eight divide equally into a northwestern strip and an eastern chunk, which somehow seems a terribly unlikely distribution to be left with. But these few still form a hugely diverse set of boroughs. There's the densely-packed centre of town, there's the multi-faceted inner suburbs, and then there's the attraction-lite outskirts where nothing much happens. It being midsummer, I'm hoping to end up somewhere green further out, but knowing my jamjar it'll probably dump me somewhere built-up closer in.
Once I've researched my randomly-chosen borough online I'll then head off and visit some of its most interesting places (assuming it has any). As usual I hope to visit somewhere famous, somewhere historic, somewhere pretty, somewhere retail, somewhere sporty and somewhere random. I might even take lots of photographs while I'm at it, if the borough's photogenic enough. Then after I've made my grand tour I'll come back tomorrow and tell you all about it. Let's see where I'm going this time...
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