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Silk & Spies
This intriguing and entertaining Essex tour
starts with beautiful silk designs at the
Warner Archive in Braintree where we see
designs for palaces, stately homes & National
Trust properties, Ocean Liners and grand
hotels by leading artists including William
Morris, Vanessa Bell and Graham
Sutherland.
After free time for
lunch in the attractive
town of Maldon we
visit a quirky and
fascinating private
museum with exhibits
that include the spy
gadgets of a senior
MI5 agent issued with
a licence to kill who
was a close pal of the
007 author Ian
Fleming and his
inspiration for James
Bond. The museum also holds the Morse
code key and typewriter used by married
KGB spies the Krogers who operated under
cover as London booksellers during the
1960s and the only surviving canoe of the
Cockleshell Heroes of World War II.
This trip is not in the current brochure but you
can read the website Silk & Spies itinerary
2013 Anniversaries and Special
Exhibitions
In 2013 it will be
150 years since the
London Underground opened.
The first
stretch of track ran from Paddington to
Farringdon Street and it was possible to
attend London’s last public execution
(a Fenian at Newgate) by underground train.
The London Transport Museum at Covent
Garden is planning a special exhibition
making 2013 a good year to include our
Tickets Please
tour in your programme.
This tour includes an erudite and entertaining
coach tour which tells the story of getting
from A to B in London from Roman times
onwards and visits the astonishing Henry
Barlow train shed at St. Pancras as well as
the London Transport important anniversary
so watch this space!). On this day out the
coach tour alone is worth the trip. You’ll see
houses with doors specially built to
accommodate sedan chairs, hear about the
importance of travel on the Thames and see
examples of buildings designed with their own
Thames landing stages and discover the surviving
station facade of London’s Necropolis Railway
which offered First, Second and Third Class
funerals right through until the 1940s.
We’ll also look out for Boris’s Bikes and the brand
new Routemaster buses and if you want we can
even include a trip on the newest form of transport
in the Capital - the Thames Cable Car.
Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men
19 October 2012 – 14 April 2013
This forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of
London will explore the early 19th century history
of human dissection and the trade in dead bodies
through dramatic evidence unearthed during
Museum of London Archaeology excavations at
the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
On our day
Rest in Peace
we will couple a visit
to the exhibition with a coach and short walking tour
that examines the history of burials in London and
the universal desire to be safe six feet under!
We’ll begin the day in the Crypt of St Paul’s
Cathedral where surrounded by the tombs of the
great and the good you can buy morning
refreshments. Our coach tour examines the growth
of London from a tapestry of villages to a teaming
metropolis and how as the churchyards filled up the
city handled the disposal of its dead. You’ll see a
“store-house” for the bones of Londoners past, the
site of plague pits, a watch house built to protect
the dead from the body snatchers and some very
touching memorials to people who died trying
to save another life. After a stop for lunch
(you could even lunch in a pub where bodies were
traded between the resurrection men and the
surgeons!) we spend the afternoon at The Museum
of London for the
Doctors, Dissection and
Resurrection Men
exhibition.
Rest in Peace is a day with a difference and is
available daily from 19 October 2012 to 14 April
2013 at Adults £17.00 and Seniors: £16.50.