London in the nineteenth century became the largest city in the world and the centre of the greatest empire in history. However, not everyone shared the glory!
Richard’s walk through Marylebone uncovers the underbelly of Victorian London: the slum housing, the workhouse, the hard lives of the street kids. We meet the colourful men and women who worked heroically to improve the lot of the poor: from a chimney sweep turned property magnate to those who taught the semi-criminal, ragged children to a grand statesman obsessed with prostitutes. The walk takes in some lovely green spaces, characterful period sites and commemorations, a fine church and some attractive mewses.
