Nunhead Library - Myths, legends and tall tales.

CoolTan Arts' CoolWalks welcomes you along on our free guided journey through Nunhead. 

Together we'll explore, discover and share the area's hidden myths, legends and tall stories taking in the amazing Nunhead Cemetery and the views from Honor Oak.  

Learn new things, make friends, get fit and have fun.

Start inside Nunhead Library, at 11am and finish at Honor Oak around 1pm.

• Friday, 27th May 2016

Nunhead Library, Gordon Road, SE15 3RW

Bus: P12, 78  

Train to Nunhead

The walk is approximately 4 miles and we would ask participants to wear sensible walking footwear and to bring plenty of water, sun cream and a sun hat - we are very optimistic! 

For more details, contact Rob Larkin-Frost on 020 7701 2696, by email coolwalksinfo@gmail.com or Twitter @CoolWalks.

TWISTS & TRANSFORMATION: Dicken’s London Borough

This is a walk through the streets of Old Borough and London Bridge following the ‘Twists and Transformations’ of Dickens’ early childhood. 

This walk revisits the highways and byways of early Victorian London encountering the traumatic twists in Dicken’s early years as he took his first tentative steps into this new city of opportunity starting with the debtors prison of Marshalsea and in the places Dickens frequented: the quiet graveyard of St George the Martyr, the bustling fruit and veg market, Old London Bridge. 

These places were  where his imagination grew, fed by the energy and incident of this rapidly growing city. We become aware of his acquaintance with Victorian ‘low life’, and with the twists in life, the unexpected hardships. These grand themes and encounters that he later transforms into some of the most vivid characters and plots in London’s celebrated literature: Little Dorrit, Oliver Twist, Nancy, Bill Sykes. By exploring these concealed aspects of Victorian London we come face to face with the inspirational back stories that gave birth to Dickens’ extraordinary fiction.

This free guided walks reveals something of his restless spirit, manifest in his compulsive night-walking and his feelings of ‘houselessness’.

Meet: Borough Tube (finish near London Bridge station)
Walk: Free
Date: Saturday 13 February
Time: 11am –1pm

Part of Southwark Hidden Stories Walks with CoolWalks.