A mis-guided, off beat, off kilter 2 hour tour of my manor in aid of Elizabeth Finn Care
| Date: | Sunday, January 6 & 13th , 2008 |
| Time: | 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
| Location: | Hammersmith Broadway Tube |
by statue of 3 naked men | |
I've lived in Hammersmith for five years and daily I'd walk past a blue plaque in Brook Green. The plaque commemorates the founding of the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association. I would notice it and barely give it a second thought.
Then I did. Having learned the history of Elizabeth Finn and her wonderful example of what a human being is capable of achieving by taking courageous, compassionate action based on deep wisdom, I've been inspired to give something back to my community in the form of a guided historical walk.
The two hour walk will take in a dozen sites of infamy and inspiration and a cast of heroes and villains ranging from Elizabeth Finn to Margaret Thatcher, Charles Dickens to Oliver Cromwell, The Clash and the Beatles to Gustav Holst and Joanna Lumley.
The walk will acknowledge the good with the bad, the beautiful with the ugly with the focus on the good guys winning.
Our walk will retrace a history of compassion, courage and wisdom that has pervaded Hammersmith and shaped the present.
Walkers will be encouraged (by fair means or foul) to donate £2.50 in aid of Elizabeth Finn Care which began in Brook Green in 1897 and whose legacy that it is never too late to care endures today.
The walk is repeated the following Sunday 13th from 2-4pm
