View to Bankside from the north

Borough Market

Your guide on the Bankside

The George

The Great Wild West of Medieval Southwark

Art, Culture, & Historical

Joined 2023

Laura A.

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London

English (Native), Spanish

3 hrs 30 mins

Private tour (only you and Laura A.)

Up to 4 people

Nowadays Southwark is in London but 500 years ago it lay outside City control, an area of Anything Goes. South of London Bridge was the county of Surrey, but the sheriff's job was made hard by private estates with their own systems of law. This was the place to be if you were on the run. The market was outside the City so prices were cheaper driving City authorities wild. Travellers and pilgrims came from far and wide, Bankside was nightlife area renowned for gaming, theaters and brothels.

Itinerary

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12:00 PM

Meeting Point

Southwark Gateway Needle or your hotel

12:00 PM

North side of River Thames at the Monument to the Great Fire of London

Where the fire of 1666 began

Fish Street Hill and St Magnus the Martyr church

From here walk across London Bridge

Queens Walk east along the river

Tower of London, the Belfast

Hay's Galleria warehouse

Shopping arcade by the river

Ancient Tooley Street and Southwark Cathedral

Borough Market

Spectacular food and people-watching

The George

17th-century coaching inn

Site of the Tabard Inn

Where Chaucer set the Canterbury Tales

Crossbones Graveyard

Former graveyard of the poor now a shrine

Bankside

The Globe Theatre, Tudor entertainment district

Tate Modern

Entry hall just to see the space of an ex-power station

Across Milennium Bridge

View to St Paul's Cathedral

North side of the river

Trig stairs and passageway east

Samuel Pepys pub on Stew Lane

View to Bankside

03:30 PM

End at Blackfriars station

Ending Point

Blackfriars Station or your hotel

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Inclusions & Exclusions

What‘s included

Guide fee

What‘s not included

Transport, food, drinks, souvenirs

Tour Important Information

This is a walking tour with stairs to climb up and down.

Walking tour, wear good shoes

Important message from the supplier

I'm a guide for walking tours; I don't have a car.

Cancellation Policy

Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time

Joined 2023

Laura A.

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About Tour Guide Laura A.

I'm a qualified London guide now offering History Walks with Gender, Sex and Class. Walks focus on the lives of poorer working people rarely described in historical accounts except as criminals or objects of charity. When there’s an opportunity to talk about women I’ll take it, and social class is always on the table. I've been a writer, researcher and critical historian all my life, and I've been a Londoner since the 1960s, although I've left to live in other towns and countries. Author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry, for many years I've focused on getting the stories out of women and others marginalised because of being poor, foreign, ‘different’ or doing jobs some folks think are Wrong, in the present and in the past. I'm known as The Naked Anthropologist.