London’s Lesser-known Lost Rivers

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You probably know about the buried River Fleet, perhaps the Tyburn, the Effra, the Westbourne, the Walbrook. But what about the Bollo Brook, the Cock and Pye Ditch, Counter’s Creek or the Moselle.

Tom Bolton has published two books tracing the routes of buried rivers though the London streetscape, and this talk focuses on the lesser-known watercourses which are perhaps even more revealing than those that are better researched.

Travel from the intrigues of medieval Chiswick to the lost circus streets of Hackney, bobbing on the waters of buried brooks. Tom Bolton is a writer and historian, the author of London’s Lost Rivers Volumes 1 & 2; Vanished City: London’s Lost Neighbourhoods; Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast; and Camden Town: Dreams of Another London.

Place: THE SMALL HALL, ECURC.

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Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society
United Reformed Church
Addiscombe Grove
Croydon
CR0 5LP

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