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Here are three itineraries ideal for the
autumn and winter months and
through into Spring of 2013.
Rest In Pieces
This unusual and unique day out traces
the history of burials in London from
Roman times to the Victorian era and the
universal desire to be safe six feet under
and includes a special exhibition to the
Museum of London exhibition called
Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection
Men. The tour is available daily from
19 October 2012 – 14 April 2013.
The day begins 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 morning 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.
We stop for lunch in Smithfield - you could even
lunch in a pub where bodies were traded
between the resurrection men and the surgeons
from Barts. We spend the afternoon at The
Museum of London for the
Doctors, Dissection
and Resurrection Men
exhibition.
The exhibition explores 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.
Rest in Pieces is a day with a difference and
is available daily from 19 October 2012 to
14 April 2013.
Adults: £17.00 Seniors: £16.50. Price valid
to 14 April 2013. Not too much walking.
Brave Knights & Bandages
900 years after the foundation of the Knights
Hospitaller we offer a day out in London looking
at the history, mystery, myth and legacy of the
Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar who
were founded just twenty years later during the
First Crusade in the twelfth century.
A riveting tale of
Brave Knights & Bandages
takes your group on a journey with these military
“monks” who unlike more conventional monastic
orders existed not to provide a retreat from the
world but to guide pilgrims through it.
Come and meet the expert and entertaining tour
guide in central London at 10-30am. During the
morning we look at the role of the Knights
Templar as one of the world’s first banking and
multinational companies with particular reference
to their London properties and activities and
including a visit to one of the most historic and
beautiful churches in London built by the order.
The round church of The Temple was built 900
years ago as the London headquarters for the
order and contains marble tomb effigies of
Knights Templar.
In decline by the 1300s many of the Templar’s
assets were transferred to the Knights
Hospitallers and this less contentious order was
never suppressed in the UK. Indeed in 1889
King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales was
made Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitallers in
a service that took place at the Priory Church of
St. John in Clerkenwell which we visit along with
the Museum of the Order of St. John housed
New Itineraries Booking Now
for Autumn 2012 and into 2013