A walk circling the Hackney and Islington border north-east of Dalston. An amazingly diverse area including an ancient leper hospital, a disused Jewish cemetery, a centre for intellectual debate, dissent … Read more
** CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS, APOLOGIES FOR SHORT NOTICE ** ‘Beating the Bounds’ to mark and confirm the borders between parishes is an ancient tradition, where the border was literally … Read more
This map is taken from Charles Booth’s Poverty Survey in around 1898. Booth walked the streets of late Victorian London, accompanied by a local policeman, then produced maps and notebooks … Read more
‘Beating the Bounds’ to mark and confirm the borders between parishes is an ancient tradition, where the border was literally paced out, agreed and marked with stones each year. This … Read more