Whitechapel

Saturday 22nd June
11am lasts about two hours
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Walk with old maps exploring London’s East End, from Goodman’s Fields to the Bell Foundry, by way of Wilton’s Music Hall

The Borough

Saturday 20th July
11am lasts about two hours
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Walk with old maps exploring one of London’s oldest neighbourhoods. Lost burial grounds, fragments of an industrual past and a secret garden right by some beautiful Octavia Hill cottages. We trace where a young Charles Dickens lodged in Lant Street and how the fearsome Bella Burge transformed a chapel into London’s most celebrated boxing venue. The wall of the Marshalsea Debtor’s Prison and the secret life of a hat factory

Pimlico

Saturday 15th June
11am lasts about two hours
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Walk with old maps exploring Mr Cubitt’s district, a lost river and the church, that was described when built as a lily among weeds. Along the way we encounter the Neat House Gardens, the Willow Walk and Jenny’s Whim.

This Walk with Old Maps is dedicated to The Pimlico Kid

St Giles

Sunday 23rd June11am lasts about two hours
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Walk with old maps exploring this almost lost neighbourhood that grew around the leper hospital founded by Matilda, Queen to Henry I in 1117. We trace 17th century houses where you least expect to find them, see what became of the notorious Rookery and follow in Dickens footsteps along the Monmouth Street in Sketches by Boz, it’s not the one you think it is! Along the way we encounter the fist military hospital staffed entirely by women and the man who invented the diving helmet.

Bethnal Green

Saturday 1st June
11am lasts about two hours
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Walk with old maps from an ancient Green to the People’s Park, by way of a Workhouse Infirmary, the Regent’s Canal and the Chartist Agitation of 1848.

North Clerkenwell

Sunday 16th June
11am lasts about two hours
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Hillside walk with old maps exploring what became of the fields around Sadler’s Wells, the New River Head and Randell’s Tile Works. We explore the settings for two great literary works; Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett and The Nether World by George Gissing. Along the way we encounter Clown Joseph Grimaldi, Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt and notorious grave-digger Joseph Naples.

Vauxhall

Saturday 25th May
11am lasts about two hours
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Walk with old maps exploring the neighbourhood, that from 1661 to 1859, was home to the world’s first Pleasure Gardens. We see how Lambeth Ragged School survived the expansion of the railway and how Doulton’s Pottery let the world know they were there. Along the way we encounter Jonathan Tyers, George Frideric Handel and the visionary Reverend Robert Gregory. Walk ends outside a modern day tea room on what would have been the edge of the Pleasure Gardens