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BRING YOUR BABY GUIDED LONDON WALK: GHOST WALK OF COVENT GARDEN
BRING YOUR BABY
From the award-winning creator of 'Bring Your Baby Pub Quiz'
- Tuesdays 11:00–14:00
- NEXT ON: 05 Nov 2024
Covent Garden Tube Station James Street, London, London, WC2E 9JT
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Event
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0 months - 2 years
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Book with Happity
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£20.00
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NB: This event MUST be booked in advance. No drop-ins.
Description
Walk starts: Outside Covent Garden tube station - I'll be waiting outside the shops opposite the exit. If you are early and need to change baby it is a five minute walk to Covent Garden Opera House on the Piazza (also our lunch stop) where there is a baby change.
Walk ends: Somerset House at Aldwych, where there is baby change.
Lunch and baby change stop: at the wonderful Covent Garden Opera House cafe - step free and baby change - you will be given 45 minutes to have lunch and change baby.
You are welcome to bring friends and family who do not also have a baby.
What you'll see and hear about on this walk:
- Ghosts of Covent Garden's theatreland, including Theatre Royal Drury Lane, The Adephi and The Lyceum.
- The ghost of The Old Hammams, a 'bagnio' frequented by Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell.
- The ghost of Admiral Lord Nelson, who still haunts a location nearby each summer.
- Locations of grisly stories, including an attack on 17th century poet John Dryden at 'The Bucket of Blood' pub, and the murder of the Earl of Sandwich's mistress, right by where we'll be having lunch.
- The pub where the famous highwayman Claude Duval was finally caught.
- The ghost who haunts not one, but two Covent Garden locations.
- Ghosts who frequent ancient pubs and restaurants in the area.
- Strand Lane "Roman Bath" - and its true purpose.
- Where Bob Hoskins saw the ghost of a nun, and a 1980s tourist caught a ghost on their holiday snap.
- Where Pepys saw the first homes of The Great Plague marked with red crosses.
- A churchyard mentioned in Dickens' "Bleak House".
- We will also touch on Covent Garden's role in the 18th century as the epicentre of the sex industry, where coffeehouses and taverns operated alongside brothels and bagnios - and the role "Harris' Book of Covent Garden Ladies" had to play for many a decade.
Customer refunds and ticket transfers must be requested at least 24 hours before an event starts.
Booking info & prices
Important notes: - Children are the responsibility of the parent or guardian, and must be monitored by them at all times. - Refunds or requests to move to a future event or date must be requested within 24 hours of the event commencing so that we can try to refill the space in adequate time. - On occasion we take photos or short video clips at our 'Bring Your Baby Pub Quizzes' or 'Bring Your Baby Guided London Walks'. By attending you are giving your permission for these to be used for Bring Your Baby Ltd promotional purposes. Any individual who we have taken a photograph of and published can request that any photographs are removed and deleted at any time. Even if they have given consent when booking according to our terms and conditions, they can of course withdraw their consent and can contact us at the email provided. - At 'Bring Your Baby Pub Quizzes', we understand that the parent or guardian will want to keep sleeping babies close to their table in baby carriers (including, for example: prams, buggies or car seats). However if babies are awake we reserve the right to ask the parent or guardian to move their baby carrier into a designated area of the venue to meet health and safety requirements (such as clear access to fire exits and clear walkways).
Prices
- Adult ticket (children go free but each adult needs a ticket): £20.00
- Additional adult without baby: £20.00
Booking info & prices
Important notes: - Children are the responsibility of the parent or guardian, and must be monitored by them at all times. - Refunds or requests to move to a future event or date must be requested within 24 hours of the event commencing so that we can try to refill the space in adequate time. - On occasion we take photos or short video clips at our 'Bring Your Baby Pub Quizzes' or 'Bring Your Baby Guided London Walks'. By attending you are giving your permission for these to be used for Bring Your Baby Ltd promotional purposes. Any individual who we have taken a photograph of and published can request that any photographs are removed and deleted at any time. Even if they have given consent when booking according to our terms and conditions, they can of course withdraw their consent and can contact us at the email provided. - At 'Bring Your Baby Pub Quizzes', we understand that the parent or guardian will want to keep sleeping babies close to their table in baby carriers (including, for example: prams, buggies or car seats). However if babies are awake we reserve the right to ask the parent or guardian to move their baby carrier into a designated area of the venue to meet health and safety requirements (such as clear access to fire exits and clear walkways).
Prices
- Adult ticket (children go free but each adult needs a ticket): £20.00
- Additional adult without baby: £20.00
