Tuesday 11th Oct - Hoping for a better day and some result :-)

The Day came up with a fresh Start

And the View looked Great across the Thames

So I headed to my Favorite street BOW LANE.

Breakfast was Toffee Apple Hot Chocolate and ham and eggs in a pot..

After my Usual Routine at the CB Library

I went Church Hunting Again

This Time St Dunstan in the East

Found it. Or should I say the remains,

It now a Park in the middle of the City

But the Steeple is still there

I passed under the back of St Pauls on the search off a prized Jewel.

I was on the Hunt for St Giles cripplegate

The Collingwood home chapel in the 1840's

Found it. so off to the next challenge

St Boloph without Aldergate

Right next to the London Museum. Doh I had walk right past it the other day.

So then the next one. The Challange was on the way Home

St Bride off Fleet street

This Beautiful little chapel just a Fleet street was where

Hannah Collingwood died 1840

Thomas Collingwood Married Rebecca Humperys in 1843

But today is dedicated to Journalist that have died in Action, I wonder if Herbert Smith Gunn is a relative.

Poor Light in the catacombs I found this, James Burridge 1825? I wonder

On the Way hoem the Thames was as Busy as always

But something special happened

I found myself being taken down a small street due to road works and I turned the corner and what was in Front of ME. The Horseshow Inn. One of Harry Iggulden's Pub's, it is no longer a cheap Pub but a very nice expensive Restaurant

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