About this Event
Industrial Clerkenwell
This tour explores the architecture and history of the industries of the past along and around Clerkenwell Road and its surrounding streets, as well as the 19th-century drive to reshape London through the building of roads and railways.
The creation of Clerkenwell Road carved a swathe through the city’s history, destroying neighbourhoods, making hundreds of people homeless and changing the social make-up of the area.
Today this area is full of architects, designers and cafes, but in earlier times this was a place of warehouses and factories, from watchmakers to engineering firms, printers to gin distillers. Traces and clues to this rich history still remain and we’ll see how many we can find.
The tour starts just outside Barbican underground station on Aldersgate Street, and will take about two hours, zigzagging around Clerkenwell Road and St John St and ending a short distance from Farringdon station. It’s a gentle wander on flat city pavements, though some of them are quite narrow.
The tour will start at 11am so please aim to arrive 5-10 minutes early.
Event venue & nearby stays
Barbican, 135-137 Aldersgate Street, London, United Kingdom
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