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Bring Your Baby Guided London Walk: 'Kentish Town History Walk'.
Book at https://BringYourBaby.org
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Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Emma Hamilton & Lord Nelson, Highwaymen, The River Fleet, Ghana's first Prime Minister, Taylor Swift, coaching inns and tea gardens, public baths, a 'ghost' station and more...
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Walk starts: Outside Camden Road Overground Station (NOT Camden Town tube station), Camden Road, NW1
Walk ends: Parliament Hill Fields (nearest stations Kentish Town tube or Gospel Oak overground)
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With stop at The Vine pub for lunch/refreshment, feeding and changing halfway.
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You are welcome to bring friends and family who do not also have a baby (every adult needs a ticket).
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Description
Discover the hidden gem of Kentish town, often overshadowed by its more well-known neighbours Camden Town and Hampstead. Follow its development from idyilic Sunday afternoon retreat to live music mecca. Who made the ill fated decision to alight at the ghost tube station of South Kentish town? Which street was described as the most immoral in Victorian Kentish Town? And who described Kentish Town as an odious swap? Home to trailblazers such as Emma Hamilton and first Ghanaian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. You'll soon find there is more than meets the eye as we scratch beneath the surface of Kentish town.
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You’ll also see and learn about…
- Where Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) lived, and from where she watched the funeral procession of her friend, poet Lord Byron, travel up towards Highgate Cemetery.
- Stories of 18th century highwaymen.
- Kentish Town's links to fascist Oswald Mosley... and possibly Mussolini.
- Where Lady Emma Hamilton resided after the death of her lover, Lord Nelson.
- The street named after the granddaughter of an infamous 'Hanging Judge'.
- The residence of Ghana's first Prime Minister, Kwame Nkrumah.
- The location of a former coaching inn and tea gardens.
- Where you can follow the path of the 'forgotten' Fleet River.
- A 'ghost' tube station.
- The history of the humble jellied eel.
- A visit inside a stunning Greek Orthodox Church, touching on Greek immigrant history and the history of Christian denominations (you are not obligated to enter the church).
- Kentish Town Baths.
- The origins of 'Little Crimea'.
- The first Sainsbury's supermarket - near where the Sainsbury family lived locally.
- Kentish Town Assembly Rooms.
- Famous live music venues.
- The 'Taylor Swift Kebab shop'.
- Little Greene Street war memorial.
- A large victorian rail crash.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kentish Town, ,London, United Kingdom
Tickets
GBP 20.00