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  • Live Music, Something A Little Different and Theatre/Arts
  • Tickets from £13.75
  • Over 18
  • Thu, 14th May 2026 @ 19:00 - 20:30
  • 19:00 - 20:30

Over London's history, more than 500 hospitals have sought to aid the city's population. Those lost, from ornate high-Victorian structures to obscure and specialist institiutions, often retain a shadowy presence in familiar neighbourhoods. While out on the water of the downriver Thames, various hulking vessels were moored to provide floating care for quarantined citizens for whom there was no room on land.



 As part of the city's annual Mediculture festival, join Ross McFarlane on a journey across a London streetscape of abandoned and converted Victorian hospital sites, peculiar medical buildings reassigned to new uses, gaps where ghostly invalids linger and downriver to search for these markers and lost limbs of the body of medical London past.


Many have left physical traces, some have regenerated into new forms of care giving, all have stories to tell. London's lost hospitals are initimately intertwined with the history of our city and our changing approaches to health and disease.

Our venue will be the wonderful gothic chapel at Guys Hospital which is celebrating the 300 year anniversary of its founding.

Ross McFarlane
Ross MacFarlane is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at Queen Mary University of London and a Council member of both the Folklore Society and the British Society for the History of Science. A professionally qualified archivist with over 20 years’ experience, he has researched, lectured and written widely on topics including Victorian “spectacular science,” early recorded sound and the collecting of amulets and charms in Edwardian London.

He is a regular lead book reviewer for Fortean Times, and has published in New Scientist, The Lancet and Notes and Records of the Royal Society, as well as contributing to books including A Practical Course in Magnetism (2017) and Women in the History of Science: A Handbook (2023).


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London's Lost Hospitals


19:00 - 20:30 £13.75

Location

Address

Guys Hospital Chapel, Entrance via the Courtyard, St. Thomas Street, London, SE1 9GU

Nearest Station

London Bridge (Tube)


Getting there

Organiser

A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
Each year, Antique Beat and A Curious Invitation host London Month of the Dead, a festival of over 60 different events to inform, provoke and entertain on teh subject of mortality and the city. Events include walks, talks, workshops, theatrical performances, storytelling, live-scored films, concerts, and visits to secret parts of the city. Subjects span the cultural landscape from the forensic to the esoteric with an unparalleled range of speakers, performers, guides and experts. Each year, London Month of the Dead donates 20% of ticket revenue to one of London's magnificent seven cemeteries.

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  • Written by Sophie

    Rating: 2

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    Visited 6 months ago
    Awful. Psychic Stevie failed to contact anyone. Which is probably why he cut the show short. It was the hammiest performance I’ve seen. It was like a comedy sketch. Waste of time. Although the setting was beautiful and atmospheric.
  • Written by R

    Rating: 5

    Hunt is really good. So fascinating and engaging. I look forward to seeing him again too. So spooky because he has spoken to so many school shooters and his research tells me it can happen anytime.
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