History Tours 2024
Schedule
Sat Oct 05 2024 at 01:30 pm to 02:15 pm
UTC+01:00Location
380 Old Street, EC1V 9LT London, United Kingdom | London, EN
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Join us on a history tour around our Grade II Listed building, and explore spaces that are never usually open to the public.Led by a member of the Shoreditch Town Hall staff team, you will learn about how the use of the space developed over the years from a municipal building that opened in 1866, holding the inquest into the murder of Jack the Ripper’s last victim Mary Kelly in 1888, to becoming one of the East End's premiere boxing venues in the 60s, hosting colourful trance nights in the 1990s with the now infamous Whirl-Y-Gig, to the leading arts venue it is today with a programme of spectacular theatre, star-studded comedy, boisterous drag queens and more.
You'll find out about the architecture and design of our building, and get the opportunity to see your favourite film and TV locations in the flesh - our spaces were recently featured in Baby Reindeer and A Quiet Place: Day One. Plus, you'll hear more about the Women of Shoreditch Town Hall, featuring the stories of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst, women’s rights advocate Helen Taylor, Shoreditch's first woman mayor Henrietta Girling OBE and others.
Oh, and you might bump into a ghost in The Ditch...
There will be free refreshments (tea, coffee, squash, biscuits) and you’ll even have the chance to bag one of our History Book’s at a discounted price.
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Where is it happening?
380 Old Street, EC1V 9LT London, United Kingdom, 380 Old Street, London, EC1V 9, United Kingdom,London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
