Tours and walks
Public Health Walking Tour
- Old Operating Theatre Museum
- from £20
About
The Public Health Walking Tour is a guided walk through 19th century Southwark, exploring streets shaped by the area's former slums. Led by guides from the Old Operating Theatre Museum, it uncovers a story of poverty and public health, from workhouse children and body-snatchers to sewage-slick river-banks. The roughly 90-minute to two-hour tour offers an insight into the lives of working people and how social progress often came at a cost borne by the poorest. It begins and ends in the old Guy's Courtyard just off St Thomas Street, not at the Museum, and includes discussions of sex, death, disease, human remains, and dissection.
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Venue
Old Operating Theatre Museum
St. Thomas Street 9a, SE1 9RY London
Genre
Medical history toursRarely
