Soho & Covent Garden: A Tale of Refugees, Radicals, Revolutionaries & Social Rebels

What will we visit on this tour?

• Meeting point:

  Embankment station, Embankment Pl, Lo...

  Embankment station, Embankment Pl, London WC2N 6NS, UK

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  I will be next to the flower stall outside Embankment Station on the Villiers Street side (going up the hill) wearing a hat and carrying a pink newspaper.

• 1
  Outside visit

  Benjamin Franklin House

  The house where one of America's founding fathers lived before revolution.

• 2
  Outside visit

  Royal Society of Arts

  Intellectual meeting place for London, with both Benjamin Franklin and Karl Marx as members.

• 3
  Outside visit

  St Paul’s Church Covent Garden

  Famous Indigo Jones church and also the actors' church for London't theatre land.

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• 4
  Outside visit

  Gerrard Street

  Now the centre of London's Chinatown but formerly a home to high society clubs and brothels.

• 5
  Outside visit

  Cecil Court

  Back alley linking Convent Garden to Soho and now famous a Harry Potter film set.

• 6
  Outside visit

  Great Windmill Street

  Site of the old Red Lion pub where the Communist Manifesto was born

• 7
  Outside visit

  Old Compton Street

  Centre of London's gay community; now out in the open after decades of legal persecution that only ended 50 years ago

• 8
  Outside visit

  St Anne's Church

  Churchyard that is now a park on top of plague pits

• 9
  Outside visit

  Dog & Duck

  One of George Orwell's favourite pubs in the area.

• 10
  Outside visit

  John Snow Water Pump

  Famed for linking tainted water with a cholera epidemic and advancing medical science

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  Outside visit

  22 Dean Street

  The apartment where Karl Marx wrote his famous book Das Capital

• 12
  Outside visit

  Soho Square Gardens

  One of London's oldest squares; originally housing members of the English aristocracy but later becoming a crowed home for refugees.