EDGELANDS - Architecture at The City's Limits (Part One)

The London Ambler is Mike Althorpe, a London architectural historian and urban explorer with a passion for revealing the history and buildings of the the greatest city on earth. Through weaving unexpected and alternative routes through the city and delivering big stories in an authoritative, yet informal and accessible way, the London Ambler brings to life the many episodes, sagas and adventures of built and unbuilt London.The London Ambler - www.thelondonambler.com

The London Ambler

A walking tour exploring architecture around the urban fringe of The City of London between Tower Hill, Spitalfields and Broadgate.

Departs inside Trinity Square gardens, near Tower Hill Underground Station

Around the fringe of every city lies an Edgeland. Neither town or country these fertile hinterlands were described in the 19th century by novelist Victor Hugo as ’bastard’ places ‘made up of two different natures’ with each rubbing up against the other, creating dramatic contrasts and tensions.Skirting the ancient borders of the City of London, this TWO-PART walk explores the liminal buildings, streets and spaces that have grown up in the shadow of the financial heart. Following a route defined first by the Romans two millennia ago, it explores the contemporary ‘City Fringe’ to reveal medieval suburbs and sanctuaries, victorian warehouses and railways, modernist utopias and 21st century commercial leviathans!Part One: Saturday 27 July - Tower Hill to BroadgatePart Two: Saturday 03 August - Finsbury Square to Holborn BarsA two-part walking tour by The London Ambler - Mike Althorpe

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