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Darkest Victorian London

This event has finished Took place on: Monday, 19th Sep 2016

 Free

Elsewhere is always surprising. Especially when elsewhere is the dark side of the moon: the Victorian underside of 21st century London. And this is how we get there. We poke around in forgotten corners of 'the real London' just over the river. We make some extraordinary 'finds'.

Everything from trace evidence – archaeological fragments – to the whole kit and caboodle. Stuff from the old, furtive, toil-worn, hard-scrabble, soon-to-be-passing, villainous past: a paupers' burying ground, a ragged school, 'model dwellings', a prison, Octavia Hill's cottages, etc. We see it. And hear the people. Really hear them. Because they speak through the guides: chimney sweeps, prostitutes, the soon-to-be-executed 'Black Maria', pickpockets, street sellers, the Body Snatching Borough Gang, etc.

This is history as a seance. And for added value...at the end of the walk you'll be able to get into the Old Operating Theatre at half price! It's well worth seeing...it's the only Georgian operating theatre in the world!

Bottom line: this is a very special walk. Nothing else quite like it in the entire London Walks repertory


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This event has finished Took place on: Monday, 19th Sep 2016

 Free

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No need to book tickets - just turn up on the day.

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2016-09-19 2016-09-19 Europe/London Darkest Victorian London We poke around in forgotten corners of 'the real London' just over the river. We make some extraordinary 'finds'. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2016/09/19/darkest-victorian-london-79947 Monument Tube Station,Fish Street Hill,,London

Location

Monument Tube Station,

Fish Street Hill,
London,
EC3R 6BR

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