Primrose Hill and the Navvies

Schedule

Sat Jan 25 2025 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Chalk Farm Station | London, EN

Primrose Hill is now one of London's desirable areas, but it was born with the blood, sweat and toil that built the canal and railways.
About this Event

The neighbourhood radiates brilliant industrial solutions of Victorian engineers, but who built it? This walk puts hard-working navvies at the centre of the story and tells how the area developed in the face of the railway's soot and smoke. The walk follows a beautiful stretch of the Regent's Canal, and from the top of the famous hill you have great views over London. You'll see railway landmarks as well as the artists' studios and pastel-painted streets that came later, in one of which lives Paddington Bear. Primrose Hill cherishes a high street largely free of chain shops and numerous good pubs. It's all minutes from Camden Market but feels miles away.

Laura Agustín is an historian and anthropologist interested in illuminating the lives of unnamed people in history - the 'ordinary folk'.

Thanks to Victorian Web for permission to use the photo from Dick Sullivan's Navvyman.



is Laura's longtime blog, focusing now on London walks with Gender, Sex and Class.
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Where is it happening?

Chalk Farm Station, Adelaide Road, London, United Kingdom
Tickets

GBP 15.00

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