August Specialist Walk Programme
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Sunday 1st August
Vanished Empires (Camden Town)
10.00am at Camden Town Tube Station
Tony McDonnell. Cost £8.00
Explore the amazing history and astonishing architecture of this vibrant area of London. The walk takes about 2 hours and finishes at Chalk Farm tube station.
The Village of Harefield
10.30am. Meet at the main gate of Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, UB9 6LD. (Bus U9 from Uxbridge Station at 9.55am. Free parking by hospital.)
Linda King. Cost £8.00
The tour includes visits to the manor house that led to the building of the famous heart/lung transplant hospital, the ANZAC cemetery in the churchyard and walks across very rural Middlesex, all ending with a visit to a traditional English pub.
The Emerald City (Irish Luminaries in London)
2.00pm from the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral
Tony McDonnell. Cost £8.00
The great names of Irish history and their lives in London. A 2 hour walk along Fleet Street into the Temple and finishing at Covent Garden
Tuesday 3rd August
Essential Westminster Walk for EFL Students
2.30pm. Meet in Piccadilly Circus.
Keith Harding. Cost £8.00
A walk taking in the highlights of Westminster delivered in English but accessible to non-native speakers.
Friday 6th August
Chaucer and Shakespeare: A walk through the London that inspired them!
10.00am. Cheapside exit of St Paul’s Station.
Linda King. Cost £8.00 £5.00 concessions.
Just what did make Chaucer so ‘saucy’ and Shakespeare so memorable? Venture into hidden corners of the City of London and Southwark ending at the famous Borough Market for lunch. Full of delights and surprises.
Sunday 8th August
The Village of Harefield
10.30am. Meet at the main gate of Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, UB9 6LD. (Bus U9 from Uxbridge Station at 9.55am. Free parking by hospital.)
Linda King. Cost £8.00
The tour includes visits to the manor house that led to the building of the famous heart/lung transplant hospital, the ANZAC cemetery in the churchyard and walks across very rural Middlesex, all ending with a visit to a traditional English pub.
Jewish West End
11.00am. Meet outside Warren Street station.
Rachael Kolsky. Cost £10.00. Book via rachel@smallcake.co.uk/www.goeastlondon.co.uk
Discover Jewish connections in the heart of London’s West End. Learn about the area’s social history with its youth clubs, schools and synagogues and explore the streets where the West End Jewish community worked as tailors, including a Jewish school, which is now a supermarket, a synagogue converted into a theatre and London’s most famous literary pub once run by Jewish landlords.
Monday 9th August
Southwark: London’s first ‘Naughty District’
6.00pm Outside Hotel Mercure, Southwark St (behind the Globe Theatre)
Sara Colclough. Cost £8.00
London’s first centre of entertainment where a lifestyle frowned on by the City Fathers was sanctioned by the Bishops of Winchester. Theatres, pubs, pleasure gardens, cock fighting, bear baiting and ‘stews’. Today the lifestyle is less shocking but the entertainment continues. Finishes London Bridge Station.
Wednesday 11th August
A Walk through Dickens’ London
10.00am. Meet at Holborn Underground Station (Kingsway entrance).
John Colmans. Cost £8.00
A walk round the Inns of Court, Inns of Chancery and Fleet Street looking at some fascinating places in Dickens’ life and novels that still survive today. Finish back at Holborn Underground.
Sunday 15th August
The Village of Harefield
10.30am. Meet at the main gate of Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, UB9 6LD. (Bus U9 from Uxbridge Station at 9.55am. Free parking by hospital.)
Linda King. Cost £8.00
The tour includes visits to the manor house that led to the building of the famous heart/lung transplant hospital, the ANZAC cemetery in the churchyard and walks across very rural Middlesex, all ending with a visit to a traditional English pub.
Sunday 22nd August
The Village of Harefield
10.30am. Meet at the main gate of Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, UB9 6LD. (Bus U9 from Uxbridge Station at 9.55am. Free parking by hospital.)
Linda King. Cost £8.00
The tour includes visits to the manor house that led to the building of the famous heart/lung transplant hospital, the ANZAC cemetery in the churchyard and walks across very rural Middlesex, all ending with a visit to a traditional English pub.
Saturday 28th August
From the Medieval to the Modern.
10.30am by the statue of George V opposite the Palace of Westminster, Old Palace Yard.
Olwen Rowlands. Cost £8.00.
This is a circular walk in the hinterland of old Westminster, lasting about two hours. The events and beliefs that have affected the development of this area are many and include royal patronage of a monastic foundation, the Reformation, the arrival of the Stuart court and fear of Nonconformity, to name but four. Come and hear about the others. En route you will see wonderfully preserved Georgian Streets, outstanding houses dating from the time of Queen Anne, a stunning baroque church, three notable modern building and an art deco edifice that shares some of the characteristics of St Paul’s Cathedral.
Sunday 29th August
The Village of Harefield
10.30am. Meet at the main gate of Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, UB9 6LD. (Bus U9 from Uxbridge Station at 9.55am. Free parking by hospital.)
Linda King. Cost £8.00
The tour includes visits to the manor house that led to the building of the famous heart/lung transplant hospital, the ANZAC cemetery in the churchyard and walks across very rural Middlesex, all ending with a visit to a traditional English pub.