Walking Tour - St Giles: In Search of a Slum
A walking tour led by Richard through the St Giles area, tracing its history as a notorious slum and the surviving buildings, churches and streets that reflect it. AI summary of the listing
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St Giles was once one of the most squalid, insanitary and criminal areas in the country; it was said to contain, “the lowest conditions under which human life is possible.” It grew from the early 1600s as a colony of new arrivals, those expelled from the City, the sick and the poor. And it became an urban forest of overcrowded courts, alleys, open sewers and gin shops. Fielding, Hogarth and Dickens chronicled its…
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