Open House Festival

Somers Town: The Housing Story

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People's Museum: A Space for Us, 52 Phoenix Road, NW1 1ES

Somers Town: a Social Housing conservation area? An immersive theatrical guided walk around Somers Town exploring social housing and the St Pancras House Improvement Society, ending at St Mary's Church, Eversholt St (NW1 1BN) for a workshop and refreshments. The workshop will explore questions of heritage in Somers Town, including making Somers Town a conservation area.

Getting there

Tube

Euston

Train

King's Cross

Bus

18, 1, 205, 214, 253, 30, 390, 46, 73, 91

Additional travel info

The walk will end at St Mary's Church, Eversholt Street, NW1 1BN. The church is less than 10 minutes walk from Euston Station.

Access

Facilities

Accessibility notes

There are toilets, including an accessible toilet, at St Mary's Church, where the walk will end and workshop will take place.

What you can expect

Performances in the street by actors on a guided walk, and a workshop with community meal.

About

Somers Town: The Housing Story Performance Walk

We are working with fragments from a musical, Jellicoe (2003), about the life of one of the pioneering reformers in Somers Town, Fr Basil Jellicoe (1899-1935); to produce a series of performed vignettes as part of a guided walk for invited guests and Open House visitors, at locations on the street (chosen as part of our forthcoming Heritage Trail) and in St Mary’s Parish Church, which will be followed by a workshop on the future of Somers Town, in view to becoming a Conservation Area.
We are showcasing the area, its radical history, social conditions and our work as A Space For Us ~ People’s Museum Somers Town to an audience who will be thinking and making decisions about its future.

Online presence

aspaceforus.club

www.facebook.com/aspaceforus

www.instagram.com/aspaceforusnow

x.com/HistoryTown

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