Vauxhall

Saturday 28th January 2012

11am lasts about two hours

£8 book by emailing kentitmuss@yahoo.co.uk                                                                                        you will be informed of meeting place on booking

Walk with Old Maps round the neighbourhood once dominated by Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. We trace where they were along with the glass factory, workhouse and burial ground. As we walk through what at first appears a bleak landscape we find reminders of the way the site was developed once the gardens closed. Along the way we encounter Jonathan Tyers, George Frideric Handel and the visionary Reverend Robert Gregory. Walk ends at the remarkable Tea House Theatre

Marylebone by Maplight

Thursday 26th January 2012

Starts 6.30pm lasts about two hours

Places £8 to book email kentitmuss@yahoo.co.uk                                                                                                                              you will be informed of meeting place on booking

Evening Walk with Old Maps tracing the development of Marylebone from Tyburn Village by way of Lord Harley’s Estate. We discover how a now lost river came to the rescue of the City of London in the 13th century and in doing so gave us the name of one of London’s best known neighbourhoods.  Along the way we encounter Lord Harley’s private chapel, Robert Adam’s first London house and where Octavia Hill started her work

Bermondsey

Sunday 29th January 2012

Starts 2pm lasts about two hours

Places cost £8 and may be booked by emailing kentitmuss@yahoo.co.uk

you will be notified of meeting point on booking

Walk with Old Maps round the one-time leather-making capital of the world.  Buildings that remind us of that and the most unlikely drinking fountain you are likely to encounter.