Every Sunday we’ll pluck just one walk from the vast London Walks repertoire and put it centre
stage.
But if you only take one walking
tour this week, why not make it…
In keeping with
this month's Literary London theme here on The DC…
SHAKESPEARE'S & DICKENS' LONDON The Old
City
2 pm on Sundays from St. Paul's Tube exit 2
There's no need to book. A London Walk
takes about two hours and costs £9 or £7 for concs. Kids under 15 accompanied
by their parent[s] go free
London was to Shakespeare and Dickens what
Paris was to Balzac. It held them in its thrall, was both their canvas and
their inspiration, their workshop and their raw material. They in turn made it
their own, imaginatively colonising it. And, like "special correspondents
for posterity", bequeathed it to us. Today, despite the ravages of time,
riot, bombing, and especially fire, traces of their London – shipwrecks from
the past – still abound in the City. Everything from superb half-timbered
Elizabethan dwellings to the magnificent early 16th-century gatehouse where
Shakespeare went with his plays to the offices of the Elizabethan Master of the
Revels. And from London's grandest Tudor manor house to crooked little alleys
which fed the fires of Dickens' "hallucinating genius".
Shakespeare's and Dickens' London – the Old
City takes place every Sunday afternoon at 2 pm
A London Walk costs £9 – £7 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.










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