The Wrong Bank
8 stops · 1 h 35 min · 3.1 km
This bank of the Thames is where London put the people it had nowhere else to put — the mad, the destitute, the sick, the dead. Eight stops on what gets kept and what gets thrown away: a nurse forgotten for a century, a churchyard saved because one person went looking for one grave, a slab of the Berlin Wall kept instead of crushed, and a war museum standing inside Bedlam. About an hour and three-quarters, tube at both ends, and it walks from either one.
Walk it either way
There is a station at each end, so this walk works in both directions — the guide reorders the route and retells the stops to match the way you are going.
- St Thomas' Hospital → Austral Street
- Austral Street → St Thomas' Hospital
Stops on this walk
- 1Mary Seacole Memorial Statue
- 2Florence Nightingale Museum
- 3Lambeth Palace
- 4Garden Museum (St Mary-at-Lambeth)
- 5Lambeth Bridge pinecones
- 6Berlin Wall segment
- 7Imperial War Museum (Bedlam)
- 8All Saints, Austral Street
How this walk works
Wanderful is an audio guide that knows where you are. Start this walk and it speaks as you reach each stop — no reading a map, no hunting for the next number on a sign. Put your phone in your pocket and listen.