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Bankside and Southwark: Shakespeare's Other Bank
The cathedral holds the legend of the miserly ferryman, Shakespeare's actor brother and the chapel where heretics were tried.
Theatre, Letters and Music in London: audio walks
Where did Shakespeare, Johnson, Mozart and Canaletto work, and who lived next door?
4 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
Explore these walksTheatre, writing and music offer several Londons within the same map. These routes connect stages and neighbours with stories of creative work in the catalogue. They move from a familiar name to a particular place: where someone worked, which audiences were around them and how a city became part of a work.
In “Soho”: The neighbourhood named after a hunting cry: Huguenots fleeing Louis XIV, Mozart tested for a fee, Marx described by a spy, the water pump that showed how cholera spreads, the fashionable street that grew up beside a plague pesthouse, Canaletto at a cabinet-maker's, and the angel everyone calls Eros.
In “Bankside and Southwark”: The cathedral holds the legend of the miserly ferryman, Shakespeare's actor brother and the chapel where heretics were tried.
In “Covent Garden and the Strand”: In Covent Garden you discover that the most photographed portico in the square leads to a false door, that Pepys watched puppets here and Shaw put his flower girl here, and that under the arcades a fruit seller saw the singer Martha Ray killed.
Choose from 4 independent walks in London. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Covent Garden and the Strand: Theatres, a Market and Scandals
In Covent Garden you discover that the most photographed portico in the square leads to a false door, that Pepys watched puppets here and Shaw put his flower girl here, and that under the arcades a fruit seller saw the singer Martha Ray killed.
Fleet Street and the Temple: Printers, Lawyers and Sweeney Todd
And inside the Temple: the first record of Twelfth Night, roses that only ever bloomed in Shakespeare, and the round church consecrated by a patriarch who had come to find a king for Jerusalem.
Soho: Refugees, Musicians and the Cholera Pump
The neighbourhood named after a hunting cry: Huguenots fleeing Louis XIV, Mozart tested for a fee, Marx described by a spy, the water pump that showed how cholera spreads, the fashionable street that grew up beside a plague pesthouse, Canaletto at a cabinet-maker's, and the angel everyone calls Eros.
London, before you go
London makes more sense an area at a time than as one vast walk. Neighbourhoods change pace within a few streets; the sky may change while you find the next one.
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