Guided Walk: Mayflower to Brunel's Tunnel

Meet at Bermondsey tube station and be guided to the Brunel Museum and below into the Grand Entrance Hall, secret underground chamber! MAYFLOWER TO BRUNEL’S TUNNEL Gulliver’s Travels, Ancient Riverside Village, Sea to Shining Sea, East India Company 10:45am every Sunday and Monday and 6.15pm every Wednesday from Bermondsey Tube (Jubilee line) Just turn up – no booking required. In partnership with London Walks. £10 per person / £8 concessions. “The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore…” Now the curtain rises upon a different scene. 1st Miracle: we’re only a 7-minute tube ride away from the Houses of Parliament. 2nd Miracle: we’re 500 years away; 3rd Miracle: this place still looks like – feels like – what it once was. (Was to Gulliver – it’s where he sailed from) 4th Miracle: the Mayflower – the Pilgrim Father’s pub – is here (let alone a king’s palace, a Dickensian mortuary, a villain’s gibbet, a prince’s tomb, a pirate’s pub and an East India Court). 5th Miracle: the 8th Wonder of the World is here – “the underground cathedral” (as the BBC called it) – the Grand Entrance Hall to Brunel’s tunnel under the Thames. 6th Miracle: We’ve got privileged access to the Royal Box – the eyrie, the viewing platform – that looks down into “the underground cathedral.”Coda anyone? River-lulled in ancient Rotherhithe we’ll hear the cool lapse of hours pass, until the centuries blend and blur. In Rotherhithe, in Rotherhithe…

Suitable for
Family friendly

Admission
£10 per person / £8 concessions.

Website
http://www.brunel-museum.org.uk/events/talks-tours-open-days/

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am10531?id=EVENT589262