Post by Spooky on Aug 17, 2004 16:11:01 GMT
Sounds interesting PLUS access to an old Georgian operating theatre. (well it might be haunted 
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DARKEST VICTORIAN LONDON -
peeling forbidden fruit
11:30 am on Mondays from MonumentTube Stop
(meet Jean just outside the Fish Street Hill exit)
Circle & District Lines
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 thrilling - and chilling - "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 the stones. And hear the people. Really hear them. Because they speak through Jean. And she does them in character: 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!
The Darkest Victorian London Walk takes place every Monday at 11:30 am.
Meet Jean just outside the main exit -
the Fish Street Hill exit -
of MonumentTube Stop.
)
DARKEST VICTORIAN LONDON -
peeling forbidden fruit
11:30 am on Mondays from MonumentTube Stop
(meet Jean just outside the Fish Street Hill exit)
Circle & District Lines
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 thrilling - and chilling - "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 the stones. And hear the people. Really hear them. Because they speak through Jean. And she does them in character: 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!
The Darkest Victorian London Walk takes place every Monday at 11:30 am.
Meet Jean just outside the main exit -
the Fish Street Hill exit -
of MonumentTube Stop.