walk/tour
Various architects, 1862
Cardinal Place, Victoria Street , SW1E 5JE
Charles Dickens visited the underbelly of Westminster which he described as the ‘Devil’s Acre’, and so can you ... walk the streets he described as ‘the blackest tide of moral turpitude’ . Do not be put off, very different today, but you can still get a feel of what Dicken's experienced on this walking tour.
Victoria
Victoria
11, 24, 148, 507, 2
Toilets are available at Victoria Train Station before start of walk
Exploring the back streets of Victoria of what Charles Dicken's described as Devil's Acre... ‘the blackest tide of moral turpitude’ and ‘the most notorious haunt of law-breakers in
the empire’.
Victoria is of course very different nowadays, but as guides we will do what guides do best and show and explain to you some of what Charles Dicken's experienced, what it was like before Victoria was developed, and the philanthropists who wanted to help the much less fortunate.
A short route of the back streets of Victoria, allowing us to step back in time.