THE ROUTE THE ROUTE continued Starting at Barons Court Station turn right into Turn left into Ongar Road. At the end of the road, cross Margravine Gardens. Lillie Road into the private road leading to The Empress State Building. Walk around the piazza and return, Turn left into Cemetery. turning right into Lillie Road. Walk along the pathway to the Field Road exit towards Turn right into North End Road. the hospital. Walk towards West Station. Turn right into (Optional - turn right at the central circle, and come Beaumont Crescent. BOROUGH WALKS - 4 back to the Field Road exit.) Turn right on return to North End Road and cross From Field Road turn left into Greyhound Road. pedestrian crossing, into Barons Court Road. Turn right into Musard Road. In the shadow Follow Barons Court Road back to Barons Court Station. Over Disbrowe Road into Moylan Road. LOOK OUT FOR THESE of the Turn left into Lillie Road. 1 ABE SMITH’S TOMB commemorates his time Turn left into Tilton Street towards Pools. as a gold digger in Australia. He died in 1923. Empress State You are now in Normand Park. 2 NORMAND PARK was created after St. Carry on along the pathway, across the courtyard, Katherine’s Convent was destroyed by bombing in 1944. toward the bowling green. Turn right and follow the 3 CLEM ATTLEE, Labour Prime Minister 1945- path to Lillie Road. 1951, opened this estate in 1957. Each block/road was Turn left into Lillie Road, cross over Mulgrave Road to named after a prominent Labour politician. the zebra crossing. Cross Lillie Road and go into the 4 NORTH END ROAD MARKET has been in © By:design – December 2016 020 8753 1764 Ref:215_67cc Map by Urban Partnership Group Clem Attlee Estate. existence since at least the 1880s. Keep Jim Griffiths House to your right. Turn left into the 5 VICTORIAN RAILINGS were often removed central gardens at Margaret Herbison House. Exit by the for munitions during the 1945 war. Fine examples of path to the right of Kenneth Younger House (ahead of those remaining can be seen on this walk - for example you) into St Thomas’s Way. in Halford Road. Follow the road around past the Wellington pub into 6 EMPRESS STATE BUILDING stands on the Haldane Road (Beware: pathway is narrow and you site of the Empress Hall, originally built when Queen should look out for on-coming traffic). Victoria became Empress of India. Cross over North End Road at pedestrian crossing (to 7 MARCUS GARVEY 1887-1940, Jamaican your right), into Halford Road. pioneer of black education lived in this area. In the Turn left into Tamworth Street, and right into late 1930s, he published ‘The Blackman’ Sedlescombe Road. newspaper from this site. 8 MAHATMA GANDHI 1869-1948, Indian peace activist, lived Continued here while studying law. Circular route: 2.7 miles (4.3 km) Station

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