Erith Station
The walk started at Erith Station.
Erith Station Sign
Erith is in zone six, and reached by train from London Bridge. It's weird.
View of the Thames
The Thames is very muddy at Erith, and has a bunch of boats floating around doing nothing.
Danger!
If you go on the mud, you might DIE!
Trolley and Cone
A trolley and a cone sink isolated and lonely into the Erith Thames side mud.
Boat parked at Erith
The pier to no-where
The Cross Keys Pub - Erith
We finally left the river for the delights of Erith central. As I said, it's weird.
Lots of blue ladder things
The walk along the Thames went past lots of industrial stuff. I don't know what these things are called, but they are very useful for reaching high things.
A Barge
Car Scrapyard
Some people may not like this kind of stuff, but I think it adds a certain 'je ne sais quoi' to the walk.
More Cars
Flood Barrier at the River Darent
We left the Thames and continued down another river.
Horse
We were really in the countryside now - they even had horses (but they were quite small)
Queen Elizabeth Bridge
Otherwsie known as the Dartford Crossing, this bridge connects the North and South parts of the M25
The tree who stands alone
Tom wants to know the way
The River Cray
Not content with 2 rivers, we move to a third - the mighty River Cray.
Bridge over the River Cray
Not a famous film.
Hall Place Gardens
Passing through the lively metropolis of Crayford, we continued on, and stumbled across Hall Place Gardens
Flowers
Hall Place Gardens had lots of cool flowers in it.
The Hall
The hall is half brick-half stone. What a cool idea.
The Gardens
The lawn was dead well mowed, but the hedge-cutting left a little to be desired.
Topiary
These hedges are supposed to be animals.
Tom takes phone-camera picture
Beautiful Flowers
More Beautiful Flowers
Purple Majesty
Reddy-Pink Majesty
Tom also likes flowers
A tree of unparrallelled majesty
Graffitti in Underpass
We finally left the park, and entered a small underpass. I really dig the urban decay
Teddy Bear
One of the better graffiiti efforts. No mindless scrawling here.
More urban decay
St. Mary the Virgin
This church is in the town of Bexley, our destination on this walk.
It's a sign
Bexley Station
We have arrived, and it took us only 3.5 hours.
Bexley Station
Bexley station has quite a nice station building