Lost Aldwych
Guided walking tour with Dr Tom Bolton tracing Aldwych's vanished medieval streets and SAVE conservation cases
Join SAVE Britain’s Heritage and Dr Tom Bolton for a walking tour of Aldwych. Behind the broad formal avenues of Aldwych and Kingsway lies a very different city: the former maze of Clare Market and Drury Lane, once dense with alleys, courts and working life, later carved apart by new streets. Traces remain, and this walk follows them to reconstruct the vanished fabric at the heart of historic London.
Along the route, we explore two SAVE cases: the Strand Piazza and 152–158 Strand, where we campaigned against demolition to protect the setting of Somerset House and the Baroque St Mary-le-Strand. The tour concludes at St Clement Danes Church.
Your guide: Dr Tom Bolton is a historian and writer specialising in architecture, culture and place. He is the author of books including Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods and London’s Lost Rivers: A Walker’s Guide.
Meet outside Temple Tube Station for a prompt start at 11:00am. Please note you will need to book your place in advance.
Images: St Clement Danes Church [Credit: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0]; Strand Piazza, 152-158 Strand & St Mary-le-Strand [Credit: G Jerger for SAVE]
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