North Clerkenwell

Sunday 17th June

Starts 11am lasts about 2 hours 30 minutes

£10 per head (£8 concessions)

Book by emailing kentitmuss@yahoo.co.uk                                                                                              you will be notified of meeting place on booking

Walk with Old Maps exploring  the streets around Sadler’s Wells. We trace a Lost River, the New River and encounter houses built in a Regency vernacular. A neighburhood once famed for it’s Wells , Springs and Pleasure Gardens, we look for traces and for what became of Merlin’s Cave; a prominent and celebrated tavern on the18th century Parish map.

The Strand

Thursday 31st May

Saturday 9th June

Starts 11am lasts about two hours

£8 (£6 concessions)

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Walk with old maps exploring some slopes and symetricalities around the Strand. Along the way we encounter Samuel Pepys, Thomas Hardy and William Blake

St Luke’s

Sunday 10th June

11am start

Thursday 14th June

11am start

£8 (£6 concessions)

Walk lasts about 2 hours 30 minutes book by emailing  kentitmuss@yahoo.co.uk                                                                                                                            you will be notified of meeting place on booking

Walk with old maps exploring the almost lost neighbourhood between Clerkenwell and Shoreditch. Following a trail of lost buildings, we piece together the story of the workhouse from rusting grills and a lost hopstial from a sign above a door. We encounter the black cat painted in bricks and work out what the Huguenots were doing in Pest House Row.

Waterloo

Sunday 24th June

Starts 11am lasts abut 2 hours 30 mins.

£10 (£8 concessions) book by emailing kentitmuss@yahoo.co.uk                                                         

you will be notified of meeting place on booking

Walk with old maps round the neighbourhood that lies beyond the South Bank. Along the way we  follow a lost river, discover a most unusual coal hole cover and  encounter the Gold Refiner of Cross Street, the Grand Ole’ Duke of York and an unikely monument to the abolition of slavery. Not forgetting the railway staion with a platform for the dead.