Clearly Destiny at Woburn Walk
Woburn walk, a pedestrian refuge just off of the busy main road of Woburn Place, and just a five minute walk away from Euston road. The street was designed by Thomas Cubitt in 1822, and thus its Victorian store fronts and Lamposts still remain explicitly present on the street. The street itself acts both as a car buffer, but also as a transition of pace, from the busy Woburn Place to the near silent Burton road. The pedestrian street acts as a transit zone, but also gains the taste of a public square. Displaying an interplay between the stationary and the mobile. Where store owners were sitting outside talking or having a Cigarrette, or just passersby who ran into each other by coincidence having a chat by the Lampost.
Looking at the Victorian storefronts the interiors of the facades house “unlikely” narratives: Woburn Tandoori, Chives: An Italian restaurant , Off License, A hair dresser… Yet one particular place caught my eye: CLEARLY DESTINY. A psychic readings initiative: also offering spiritual medicine and healing. While initially this caught my eye for my mild skepticism, it was brought back to my attention while reading about the street after I returned home. The street is home to two important residents:
A British author and journalist, she was one of the earliest novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique. Richardson also famously wrote a book called The Pigrimage: “The journey of the artist to self realisation, but more practically to the discovery of a unique form of creative expression.”
- W. B. Yeats: A nobel prize winner in literature. Yeats is an Irish poet and considered to be a major figure in Irish and British literary establishment. Yeats went is known by critics to have undergone a major transformation in his work. Starting off on a much more transcendental tone, engaging with themes of love and mystical subjects, he later in his life goes towards a much more realistic character in his poetry. Renouncing from his earlier beliefs.
Related observations started popping up here in there, just to the right of Woburn walk, St. Pancras New Church acts as somewhat of an indicator to Woburn Walk. A church built by William and Henry Inwood who were offered the opportunity to design the church after submitting for a design competition of 30 or more contenders. The church was meant to serve a newly built area close by. The cost of the church was £76,679 making it the most expensive church to be built in london since the rebuilding of St. Paul’s cathedral.
On my way back from the site the second time I was handed two postcards in front of Euston Church… Clearly Destiny ;)
Another interesting related bloomsbury find:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/institutions/british_national_spiritualists.htm
Further note to investigate: There is a dance school just after Woburn Walk called “Place”.
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