Let's go on a Plagues, Pestilence & Pathology trail in the heart of the City!

Let me lead you on a relaxed City of London trail and dissect London’s medical history by exploring streets once plagued by death and disease!

London’s oldest quarter, the City of London, was once completely walled and, as it is today, teeming with life. Across the river, the supply hub of Southwark was the overspill for the City’s vice. Disease was as constant a threat as fire and often more terrifying. Monks and nuns ran ‘hospitals’ – from the Latin hospitium, or charitable lodging – and some of London’s most respected modern hospitals, including St Thomas’s and St Bartholomew’s, trace their roots back to these early lodgings. Following London’s struggle against illness and disease, this walk highlights the journey to improve public health and the treatment of the sick, with its own cast of quacks, visionaries, hypochondriacs and heroes.

Route overview: Even before infection was fully understood, most people avoided the sick. Sufferers were often cared for outside the City walls.
As mysterious illnesses such as the ‘sweating sickness’ or frequent recurrences of plague swept across London, the dead were
tipped unceremoniously into mass burial grounds, or plague pits.
This walk traces a route along the western edge of the City of London, drops down to the River Thames – itself a cause of sickness in the past – and into the London Bridge Quarter of Southwark to end at Guy’s
Hospital.

The Meetup fee for this event is £5.00 – which is payable on the day. (Loyalty card holders £4.00) Please keep an eye out for the Meetup sign. If you do not see us please call/text me on: 0739 623 3874 – text is best! - psssst! Don't forget to say your name in the message.

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Afterwards we'll have a little social eat'n'drinks at the George Inn, which is London's oldest galleried Coaching Inn. For more history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_George_Inn,_Southwark

PLEASE NOTE: IN THE EVENT OF BAD WEATHER - PLAN B - Will be implemented! This will remain within the locality and theme but we will visit the Museum of St. John & the Charterhouse museum instead. In this instance the Meetup fee will be the usual £3.00. We will then have drinks locally.

LATEST! Please be aware that due to the adverse weather - I have adapted this tour and will implement Plan B. So we will still visit the plague site at Charterhouse but also their museum and we will also visit the Museum of St. John - I may have a couple of surprises for you too! So whatever the weather - we will have an enjoyable afternoon!

Hope to see lots of you there :)

NB. As usual there will be others coming along from my other Meetup family ;)