• Walking Tour – Shadwell Sailortown: Pirates, Seamen, Slaves and Local Girls
    Walking Tour – Shadwell Sailortown: Pirates, Seamen, Slaves and Local Girls
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    From the 17th century Shadwell heaved with ​the licit and illicit buying and selling of everything related to shipping and sailing.. Shadwell was an early centre of Docklands, developed to supply both navy and merchant ships. Trades included sail makers, instrument makers, ship chandlers, ship brokers, victuallers, rope makers, glassmakers, sugar refiners, coopers, brewers, distillers…

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  • Walking Tour – Primrose Hill and the Navvies Who Built Canals and Railways
    Walking Tour – Primrose Hill and the Navvies Who Built Canals and Railways
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    Primrose Hill was born when navvies dug out the land by hand, bringing grime, racket, hard drinking and what some called Moral Depravity. The neighbourhood radiates brilliant industrial solutions of Victorian engineers, but who built it? This walk puts hard-working navvies at the centre of the story and tells how the area developed in the…

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  • Walking Tour – Disgraceful Women of Old St John’s Wood
    Walking Tour – Disgraceful Women of Old St John’s Wood
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    In St John’s Wood Alternative Lifestyles were the norm, but nearby Lisson Grove saw the first sex-slave scandal, of young Eliza Armstrong. This walk begins 200 years ago in St John’s Wood, where family arrangements routinely diverged from Victorian rules of respectability. What did it mean to be a Kept Woman? Was it only disreputable…

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