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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…
The Knifeman
Piccadilly Circus Tube, subway 3, Eros exit
Saturday 25th February 2017 at 10:45a.m
Saturday 25th February 2017 at 10:45a.m
Guided by Barry
Making the rounds with Surgeon John Hunter, the Father
of Modern Surgery.
Okay, Surgeon Hunter is the presiding, the tutulary
spirit. But he'll be here – this is where he lived and worked. This Medical
Tour of Soho and Piccadilly is guided by a Public Health Physician.
Warning: not for the fainted hearted – there's lots of
clinical detail.
Follow Dr Barry Walsh in footsteps of the famous
surgeon Dr John Hunter through the streets of the West End, Covent Garden and
end in the remarkable Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The infatuation
of a doctor's wife for the sculptor of Eros begins our tour and ends mournfully
in the Royal College of Surgeons.
The Windmill School of anatomy in the 18th Century was
where the Hunter brothers taught dissection on bodies provided by the
Resurrection men. Chasing down the body of an Irish Giant for dissection and
seeing where John Hunter’s house and museum stood in Leicester Square. In the
Hunterian museum we will see the skeleton of the Irish Giant and also that of
the tiny Sicilian fairy. Other displays show Hunter’s studies into the human
body and made surgery a science.
The Knifeman
Piccadilly Circus Tube, subway 3, Eros exit
Saturday 25th February 2017 at 10:45a.m
Saturday 25th February 2017 at 10:45a.m
Guided by Barry
About
Your Guide…
Barry is
our "Renaissance man". He's a Consultant Public Health Physician, an
Art Historian, and a professionally qualified Blue Badge Guide.
A London Walk costs £10 – £8 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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