community/cultural
10 Old Pye Street, SW1P 2DG
Whatever happened to the historic River Tyburn? Victor Keegan, author of Vic Keegan’s Lost London (1) and Vic Keegan’s Lost London (2) will chart the history of this extraordinary river which still springs from the Hampstead Hills but leaves experts arguing over if and where it reaches the Thames.
Victoria, Westminster
Victoria
88, 26, 24, 11, 148
Talk on "Whatever happened to the historic River Tyburn"?
Victor Keegan, author of Vic Keegan’s Lost London (1) and Vic Keegan’s Lost London (2) will chart the history of this extraordinary river which still springs from the Hampstead Hills but leaves experts arguing over if and where it reaches the Thames.
The Archive contains books, engravings and files relating to the extraordinary history around us from Parliament, Whitehall, Westminster Abbey to St John’s Smith Square. It is in Old Pye Street at the centre of what was a hotbed of squalor and criminality that Charles Dickens dubbed “The Devil’s Acre”. It is on the actual site of a former school for pickpockets - almost certainly the inspiration for Fagin’s Den.
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community/cultural, military
A Grade 2 listed former Territorial Army Drill Hall featuring restored elements of the original 1882 design. It has a triple height central hall with the restored wrought iron balconies and roofing. Notable Neo-Georgian design brickwork. It is also unique in being the last ever military drill hall built in the UK.
Oliver Hill RIBA, 1952
