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If yesterday was all trees and lovely riverside views, today promises to be very different.

You can’t walk down a London street carrying a seven-metre tall flag without drawing attention.

In 10 days time we will begin our last day carrying all 20 scrolls through this thousand-year-old community of fishermen. We will meet local artists and see Metal’s digital exhibition on ipads as well as be treated to a performance from the Mudlarks Choir, amongst other surprises.

Oh my goodness, it's day 9 of our 10 day count down! Well what a treat we have for you today! The Bata Heritage Centre are leading the walk to give you real insight into the buildings and local history, and very generously they have agreed to provide real props for the performance.

As part of Totally Thames, Kinetika present a Silk River film screening looking at how this ambitious project has explored the unique relationship between London and Kolkata through artistic exchange between communities along the Thames Estuary and India's Hooghly River. The screening will be followed by a question and answers session with some of the project's key partners.

On the 21st Sept we are in 'Gateway to the world', otherwise known as Tilbury! It is still a very busy port and we will hear stories of how it used to be before the age of shipping containers, when tea arrived from India in chests, cargo was unloaded in wheelbarrows and rum came in barrels.

It's day 7 of the 10 day countdown! On the 21st Sept we will be discovering an area with an industrial history of cement, bricks and paper that sits alongside Europe’s finest Gurdwara.

On 20th Sept, only 10 days away, we'll be enjoying a 4.2 mile walk around Dartford and discovering the legacy from its pop culture past that still thrives in the town today.