Events

Tour of the City of London – Blackfriars

Date:  11 Apr 2012
Time:  18:00
Location:  The Black Friar, EC4V 4EG, London
Cost: £10.00

After the success of one of our last Blue Badge Holder tours we are pleased to announce yet another wonderful tour from the highly experienced and well trained tour guides.

Angela Akehurst will be taking us around the area of Blackfriars. Today the names of a bridge, a railway station and a pub recall the Dominican, or ‘Blackfriars’, friary that stood here until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The area has a rich history that includes royal residences, riverside wharves, the Blackfriars theatre, playwrights William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, lutenist to King James I John Dowland, artists Sir Anthony van Dyck, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal, engineers Sir James Wolfe Barry and Henry Marc Brunel, and the Cubbitt family of builders. Truly a very rich history that, as an SYF member, we are encouraged to learn about, so that we can spread the knowledge of this great city.

The Blackfriars pub is one of London’s finest examples of Arts & Crafts architecture where, as SYF tradition states, we will more than likely head to once our tour has finished.

PLEASE NOTE: bookings can only be secured by advance payment through PayPal. If you choose not proceed with payment at the time of booking your reservation will be cancelled.

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