Walks · London · English
6 narrated stops, 17 minutes of stories, 3.6 km on foot. Press play at each stop — no app needed — or open the walk in Avsha and let the stories keep coming as you move.
Stop 1 · 3 min
In short: It is a restored Georgian townhouse in Spitalfields designed as a candlelit still-life drama. Visitors explore in total silence, viewing rooms staged to look as if a fictional family of Huguenot silk weavers has just stepped out.
↓ 450 m · 6 min to the next stop
Stop 2 · 3 min
In short: The Ten Bells was renamed 'The Jack the Ripper' in 1976. It reverted to its original name in 1988 following pressure from local residents and feminist groups who protested the celebration of the murderer.
↓ 400 m · 6 min to the next stop
Stop 3 · 3 min
In short: The Boundary Estate in Shoreditch, completed in 1900, is officially the world’s first council estate. Its central mound at Arnold Circus was constructed using the rubble from the demolished Old Nichol slum that once occupied the site.
↓ 1.3 km · 19 min to the next stop
Stop 4 · The Silent Frontier of Wentworth Street · 3 min
In short: Wentworth Street serves as a transition point between Charleston’s lower peninsula neighborhoods and northern commercial energy. It features brick homes built after the Great Fire of 1838 and the Wentworth Mansion, a Gilded Age residence built in the 1880s.
↓ 1.1 km · 16 min to the next stop
Stop 5 · 3 min
In short: The Deacon was originally the First African Baptist Church, which broke ground here in 1906. The building served as a spiritual anchor and sanctuary for community organizing and civil rights before its transformation into a boutique hotel began in 2018.
↓ 350 m · 5 min to the next stop
Stop 6 · 3 min
In short: Virginia Court was an eighteenth-century auction yard where merchants known as Tobacco Lords traded tobacco, sugar, and rum. This trade was fueled by the labor of enslaved people on plantations in the Chesapeake and the Caribbean.