Walking Tour – Il Quartiere – Tales From Italian Clerkenwell

Walking Tour – Il Quartiere – Tales From Italian Clerkenwell

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Details
Date:

January 17

Time:

14:00 - 16:00

Event Category:

All, Rob Smith

Click to Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour-il-quartiere-tales-from-italian-clerkenwell-tickets-1072266962349
Organizer

Rob Smith, Footprints of London

Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/rob-smith-footprints-of-london-1394683923
Venue

Farringdon Underground

39 Cowcross St, London, EC1M

London, Gt Lon, GB, EC1M

Tales of love, bravery, crime and friendship from Italian Clerkenwell 1830-1950

 

From the mid 19th Century  to the Second World War the streets of Clerkenwell around Saffron Hill were known as Il Quartiere to the Italian residents. This walk will explore every day life in London’s Little Italy, introducing the characters who made up this world within a world beneath the viaducts of the Clerkenwell Road. There are love stories, tragedies, tales of bravery and fortitude, as well as crime and poverty. In this 90 minute walk Rob Smith uses stories fron newspapers, photographs and the oral histories recorded by Olive Besagni in her book A Better Life, to conjur up the street  life of a century ago into the now quiet Clerkenwell side streets.

Reviews of this walk 

“An interesting and very well informed trip around the Little Italy area of London. Rob brought the area to life with snippets of the lives of the characters who inhabited the area through the last couple of hundred years. Enjoyable and informative, with a nice follow up email suggesting further reading” Elaine C

“Rob was very informative and shared many unique facts and interesting details all along the tour. Highly recommended!” LMG

 

 

 

 

 

 

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