Getting to Know London Again

I visit beautiful parks, monuments, and Westminster Abbey, and discover the ever-increasing height of London’s lookouts

First published on 10 May 2022, on my website a-maverick.com.

AFTER Colnbrook, I spent the next few nights at another Airbnb in Tarbert Walk, which is in the London Docklands. It’s not far from Cable Street, where the famous 1936 Battle of Cable Street was fought between Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and his mostly left-wing opponents.