Every Sunday we’ll pluck just one walk from the vast London Walks repertoire and put it centre stage.
But if you only
take one walking tour this week, why not make it…
WHAT HO, JEEVES! – The London of P.G. Wodehouse
2:30pm Saturday 28th February 2016
To go on the "What Ho, Jeeves!" The London
of P.G. Wodehouse walk meet Richard IV just outside the Park Lane exit of
Marble Arch Tube.
Mayfair between the wars. The land of Galahad
Threepwood, Bingo Little and Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright. The house where
Wodehouse lived for much of the 1930s. The real locations behind the Drones
Club. Grosvenor Square and the girl who yearned for it. The famous actor who
was an inspiration behind Bertie Wooster, the place where Bertie bought the Old
Etonian spats which outraged Jeeves, and the bookshop where he, most
unfortunately, ended up with a copy of Spindrift. The home of a close Wodehouse
friend and colleague. The little tea shop near the Ritz where romance
blossomed. The club where an impecunious peer worked as secretary. P G
Wodehouse, genius of comic writing, was backwards and forwards between London
and New York throughout the 20s and 30s, and the fictional world he created
around his real London never grew old. Over 90 years on since the immortal
Jeeves first shimmered into view, the traces of the Master’s favourite corner
of London can still be found…
To go on the "What Ho, Jeeves!" The London
of P.G. Wodehouse walk meet Richard IV just outside the Park Lane exit of
Marble Arch Tube.
A London Walk costs £10 – £8 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.










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