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BRING YOUR BABY GUIDED LONDON WALK: "A CHRISTMAS CAROL: DICKENSIAN ALLEYWAYS OF THE OLD CITY AT CHRISTMAS"
BRING YOUR BABY
from the award-winning creator of BRING YOUR BABY PUB QUIZZES
- Wednesdays 11:00–14:00
- NEXT ON: 04 Dec 2024
Outside Bank Tube Station (Royal Exchange exit) Princes Street, London, Greater London, EC3V 3LA
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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
Toilets and baby change at the start and end of the walk at The Royal Exchange.
Stop for a half hour lunch break at Leadenhall Market.
'A Christmas Carol' is Charles Dickens's best known and best loved work. The numerous adaptations of the novella that are being performed in London this Christmas show that the story is just as popular today as in 1843 when it was published.
Famously telling the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge as he spends Christmas Eve in the company of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, on this walk we will visit numerous locations from the narrative.
What you’ll see and hear about on this walk:
- Victorian Leadenhall Market - decorated for Christmas - with many connections to Dickens (and Harry Potter!).
- Sites of Ebeneezer Scrooge’s Counting House and a possible contender for his home.
- Where Scrooge's clerk Bob Cratchit "went down a slide... twenty times in honour of it being Christmas-eve".
- The peaceful churchyard from ‘Our Mutual Friend’, described by Dickens as the church of ‘the Great Golden Keys', and where Scrooge may have been shown his own grave by The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.
- Many atmospheric ancient courts and alleyways, where we encounter Dickens’ favourite chop house, a setting for The Pickwick Papers, and very possibly where Scrooge spends Christmas Eve eating "..his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern".
- The church "...whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a gothic window in the wall...".
- The building where Scrooge observes aquaintances discussing his death.
- Plus! Hear about the some Victorian Christmas traditions along the way, including making Christmas puddings, pulling crackers, sending cards and assembling a Christmas tree - and find out where in London some of these were invented!
- Customer refunds 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
