Sinners, Saints and Saviours - Beltane Special !
Fri 02 May
|London
For the ancient Celtic festival of Beltane, Join your Roman 'Whore' Guide as she leads you down the back streets of Bankside and London Bridge and introduces you to the Goddesses, Whores and heroines that shaped Southwark.
Time & Location
02 May 2025, 18:30 – 20:30
London, Green Dragon Ct, London SE1, UK
About the event
PLEASE NOTE: The booking link will redirect you to our partner Treadwells website to complete your booking. The tour is named GODDESSES< GALS AND RAT QUEENS on their website. it is the SAME tour. Thank you!
Southwark…Most know it today for the tourist destinations of Borough Market, Southwark cathedral, London Bridge, The Globe, among others. But behind the bustling Bankside streets there is a much more sordid and dark history.
For over two millennia ‘south of the river’ has always been a wild place of debauchery and vice. From the Roman occupation, through to the Medieval and Elizabethan eras and right up to the 20th century, Southwark has rightly earned its reputation as a "Foul dene, rather than a Fairy garden" (unknown, 17th century).
We know the men behind this history: Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake, King Henry VIII, the Bishops of Winchester. But what about the women?
Enter: "Lydia Clamydia".…