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Musical Walking Tours
There are several ways of looking at our chat and
song musical history
walks. Think of
them
as a series of short concerts. Think of them as a walking tour. Think
of them
as an opportunity to sing in public if you feel like it. Think of them
as
really memorable events with ace tunes and chatter from Chris Roberts
and Nigel
of Bermondsey.
At every stop there are short tales about the area and
also a
song about the location. Walks last between 90 minutes and two hours.
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Do
the Strand! I beg your
pardon we never
promised you Covent Garden but on this
all singing stroll you’ll find all kinds of delights from
Jenny’s Hole to where
you may find Barbara Streisand's underwear and why the bowler hat
disappeared
from the streets of London. There are also stories about a smelly lamp,
a bunch
of ghosts and a mad elephant.
The Bermondsey Suite: The outcast
dead and literary greats, medical
oddities and pure collectors, London folktales and lost rivers make
appearances
in this stroll from Borough to the waterfront at Bermondsey. Sometimes
it’s
better not knowing what lies beneath the streets but if you are sure
you’d
rather find out then this is the time to do it.
Terrible Tides and
deathly docks: Ratcliffe & Wapping: Political
riots, staked murderers, escaped tigers, ghostly polar bears
and the dreaded witch of Wapping all feature in this two hour amble
round E1.
There are also well hung pirates, hanging judges and other Thameside
shocks
around the old docks and back streets of one of London’s
spikier boroughs.
Bloomsbury: Sounds of
the suburb: A tour of
London's first suburb featuring
strange ghosts, substance abuse, literary greats and violent street
disorder.
We cannot of course guarantee the street disorder or indeed ghosts
actually
appearing but the songs and stories about them will. We shall naturally
mention
Bloomsbury’s many famous residents as well as a culinary
history that sees top
national restaurant chains being set up a few yards from each other in
the
south of the area.
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