Alec Forshaw will lead a walk from the old turnpike toll point at the Angel Islington down the winding length of St John Street passing a wide variety of remarkable Victorian and Edwardian buildings, including City University, the former Nicholson’s gin distillery and Cannon Brewery, and numerous taverns, workshops and residential tenements arriving at the great entrance to Smithfield, former livestock market and still the UK’s largest dead meat market. We will finish at Farringdon Station c.8.00 pm
The walk is led by Alec Forshaw who has worked as an urban designer and conservation officer for the London Borough of Islington for 32 years and has always had a deep interest in London’s history. His books on London include Smithfield: Past, Present and Future, Markets of London, The Open Spaces of London, 1970s London, 20th Century Buildings in Islington, New City: Contemporary Architecture in the City of London, and An Address in Bloomsbury.
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