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Rob’s 'Medical Madness' Walking Tour
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Embark on a walk through London's vibrant medical history! Explore healers' dens and quackery cures, uncover juicy royal health secrets, and laugh while learning about boozy remedies and scandalous sexology in medicine. From 'Dutch courage' to Hollywood dramas, this 2.5-hour tour ends at the fascinating Wellcome Collection museum, leaving you with a unique perspective on London's medical marvels and mishaps.
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Let us traverse the London streets of Marylebone, Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury in search of those places and people who have made our capital city a nest of disease and contamination, but also a metropolis of healing and good health.
Our start point is St. Andrew’s Place near the medicinal garden of the Royal College of Physicians (Nearest tube stations are Great Portland Street and Regent’s Park).
- A ‘tongue in cheek’ look at the royals and high ranking government ministers, and whether they were fit to rule us, either physically, mentally or morally - and whether they were well enough to take charge of our nation at all!
- The real reason for those expressions ‘dutch courage’, ‘one for the road’ and ‘on the wagon’, and medicine's long and complex relationship between getting a patient back on their feet and boozing!
- Medicine and sexuality, and undress the often unsavoury tales of the relationship between the medical profession and sex and sexology, as we take a walk on the wide side to uncover the innovation from practitioners who would liberate people from centuries of intolerance.
- Medicine at the Movies! It’s lights, scalpel, action as we check out our obsession with the silver screen and tragic, comic, romance, scandal and intrigue in fiction.
Our end point is the Welcome Collection at 183 Euston Road NW1 2BE, where I shall introduce you to the museum highlights and any exhibitions. This space has an excellent cafe, as well as restrooms.
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Duration: 2.5 hours
Type: Walking Tour
Exclusives: Walking tour with Rob Woodford—an experienced, qualified London Black Cab Driver
Price: £240 total (up to 15 guests). Prices do not include attraction tickets.
Languages: English
Pick up: St Andrews Place, London NW1 4LE (near the medicinal garden of the Royal College of Physicians)
Type: Walking Tour
Exclusives: Walking tour with Rob Woodford—an experienced, qualified London Black Cab Driver
Price: £240 total (up to 15 guests). Prices do not include attraction tickets.
Languages: English
Pick up: St Andrews Place, London NW1 4LE (near the medicinal garden of the Royal College of Physicians)
- St. Andrew’s Place (meeting point)
- Royal College of Physicians
- Park Square East: The Diorama
- Regent’s Park
- Marylebone Road: St.Marylebone Church, Charles Dickens Plaque, Royal Academy of Music
- Marylebone High Street
- King Edward VII Hospital
- Weymouth Street
- Arthur Conan Doyle Plaque
- 17 Wimpole Mews
- Harley Street: Florence Nightingale Plaque, Lionel Logue Plaque
- Park Crescent: Duke of Kent Statue
- Portland Place: Sir Joseph Lister Statue, Royal institute of British Architects, Polish Embassy
- Langham Place: The Langham Hotel, BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), All Soul’s Church
- Regent Street
- The Speakeasy Club
- Great Titchfield Street, Langham Street & Foley Street
- Cleveland Street: (Site of) Middlesex Hospital Workhouse
- Maple Street & Fitzroy Square
- University College Hospital
- Whitfield Street: Marie Stopes Clinic
- Tottenham Court Road, Huntley Street & Gower Street
- Wellcome Collection (key highlights and end of tour)
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