One Eye Grey Walks

London Folklore & Scary stories:

One Eye Grey is a twenty  first century penny dreadful packed with scary London stories. It comes out three times a year and with every new edition there are a series of events including film showings, bands, talks and London walking tours.

The walks feature odd bits of London folklore, scary stories and strange facts about different parts of the city. 

Most of the walks last ninety minutes and all start near a station and end (if you like) at a pub. 

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One Eye Grey I: London Bridge

Ghostly polar bears, the Queen Rat of Queenshythe, thousand year old ornate castration devices, pagan estate agents and the strange case of the mummified cat. Hays Galleria to Borough.

One Eye Grey II: Waterloo & Vauxhall

 William Blake, Spring Heeled Jack, dead sailors, weird tombs, the woman who started the French revolution and some stuff about the real spooks at MI5 & MI6. Lower Marsh Street to Tate Britain. 

One Eye Grey III: Bloomsbury

Starting near the British Museum the Bloomsbury walk mentions Mr Crowley, screaming queens, of the Egyptian variety, haunted clocks, incompetent executioners and much else as it meanders from St Giles to Holborn. 

One Eye Grey IV: Smithfield to Borough and St James from Mayfair

The Bleeding Heart A 2 mile trek across London from a site of demonic heartbreak in Clerkenwell to Borough via poltergeists, witches, black dogs, the sacred shrine to the outside dead in Southwark. Meet at Bleeding Heart Yard (Chancery Lane or Farrington Tube. 2 hours)

Piccadilly warriors, sapphic Royalty, bonkers fashion, nazi dogs, naval heroes and lovesick gardeners are amongst the cast on this dysfunctional relationship stroll through St James. Meet Green Park tube. 

One Eye Grey V: Clerkenwell and Blackfriars

The Heaven & Hell Walk takes you in the footsteps of wizards, mystics, visionaries, quacks, giants, criminals, brawling women, holy warriors and parading bears. See the sites of sacred wells, strange theatre, a midget wedding, an impromptu witch ‘swimming’ and much more….(2 hours)

Troglodyte pigs and syrup of figs. Herds of feral swine, a well hung Italian, giant dogs, huge rats and the ghost of the pig nosed princess, what’s not to like on this stroll around Blackfriars? Along with the folklore there’s literature, politics and the law and remember that underneath your feet is the Fleet.

One Eye Grey VI: Chelsea and New Cross

Don't you want to go to Chelsea? Dogs on sticks, ghost bears, lavatory humour, satanic sports venues, secret agents, vampires, phantom Eskimos, wombats, ultra violence and suicidal sea captains. More bonkers tales than you can shake a stick (with or without a dog attached) at. 

New Cross Dark Arts Walk taking in New Cross and Deptford's strange and ghostly folklore and history. Ghosts and ghost hunters, witchcraft and the devil, an exploding chip shop and boozers from beyond the grave.

Fright Bikes! London Bridge to Deptford

Ghostly polar bears, well hung pirates, the origin of the jolly roger, ghostly barmaids and phantom hunts can be expected to be mentioned if not actually seen.