Written by Lauren
Rating: 5
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As a London Month of the Dead regular, I was chuffed to have an event around Christmas. The performance was fantastic and the atmosphere was perfect!
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Walks & Tours
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Tickets from £12.00
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This event has taken place.
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Multiple start times (see ticket info)
London prides itself on its history and no area hosts more of that than the grisly environs of the Tower of London, the fortress founded by William the Conqueror soon after his invasion of England to overawe the brutal and recalcitrant locals.
Pete Smith’s walk will take us from the crypt of All Hallows by the Tower, via the dreadful execution site on Tower Hill, to the overcrowded graveyard of the church Dickens called ”Saint Ghastly Grim”, before heading east to take in a vast plague pit and a Jack the Ripper killing ground. Looping back to the area where Samuel Pepys witnessed both the start and the finish of the Great Fire of London, its route follows a trail of war, murder, terrorism, pestilence, persecution and retribution, from IRA bombings and Hitler’s firestorm to a monument to killer mice. It ends opposite the aptly named “Hung, Drawn & Quartered” pub by which time you may be in need of a restorative pint of London Pride.
Tickets £12 including a 20% donation to Kensal Green Cemetery. Please click here to purchase.
Pete Smith is a Devon-born academic who has lived in London since the age of ten. Since retiring as Head of English and Dean of Arts at Brunel University a job he describes as very like managing the salad bar at Smithfield Meat Market, he has reinvented himself as a City of London and City of Westminster guide and freelance lecturer.
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Tickets/Times
| Ticket | Event time | Cost |
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Blood, Fire and Pestilence
A Guided Tour of Tower Hill (morning) |
11:00 - 12:30 | £12.00 |
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Blood, Fire and Pestilence
A Guided Tour of Tower Hill (afternoon) |
14:00 - 16:00 | £12.00 |
Location
Address
All Hallows by the Tower, Byward Street, London, EC3R 5BJ
Nearest Station
Tower Hill (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
This year Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation will be hosting The London Month of the Dead, a series of 36 different events investigating the capital’s relationship with its deceased residents. Events will include a private view of the Museum of London’s bone archive, taxidermy workshops, macabre walking tours and private views and a programme of weekend death salons with talks on subjects ranging from public dissection and body snatching to reincarnation and funereal folklore. Each salon will feature a pair of speakers, authorities in fields such as osteology, forensic pathology and the paranormal, who will offer their own perspectives and insights on mortality in the city.
Each year the London Month of the Dead donates 20% of all ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries. In 2017 all of the death salons and concerts will be hosted at the Dissenters and Anglican chapels at Kensal Green. In previous years the month's programme has centered around Brompton Cemetery but the chapel is now undergoing important restoration work, a project the London Month of the Dead is proud to have supported.
The London Month of the Dead has been curated by a Curious Invitation and Antique Beat to inform, entertain and provoke on the subject of death and London cemeteries.
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