London in the nineteenth century became the largest city in the world and the centre of the greatest empire in history. However, not everyone shared the glory!

Richard’s walk uncovers the underbelly of Victorian London surprisingly in Marylebone: the slum housing, the workhouse, the hard lives of the street kids. We meet the heroic men and women who worked to improve the lot of the poor: from a chimney sweep turned property magnate to those who taught the semi-criminal, ragged children to a grand statesman obsessed with prostitutes.

The walk also takes in some lovely green spaces, characterful Victorian social housing and a fine parish church.