Walking and Garden Tours at Bankside Open Spaces Festival

Bankside open spaces Festival is all about exploring what’s wonderful about our local area - and what better way to do this than with an informative, expert led waking tour or garden tour!

We’re offering both at our Bankside Open Spaces Festival - 8 June 2024:

London Street Tours - local area walking tour

London Street Tours - are bringing a fun. free and interactive walking tour to Bankside Open Spaces Festival. Covering our area’s intriguing history, enjoy a short tour wih lots of chances for you to get involved too! Booking required, tickets free. Tours are 2pm and 5pm - click here to book.

The Goose and Graveyard Tour and talk at Crossbones Graveyard

At 12pm, 12.30pm, 1pm and 1.30pm

This activity will introduce you to Crossbones Graveyard' rich and vibrant history with Jennifer Cooper and Lucy Coleman Talbot. Crossbones researcher, Lucy will lead you through the former burial ground's social history from its origins through to the early 1990s. From here, Jennifer, a.k.a Vigil Aunty of the Magical Collective which leads the Crossbones Vigil to Honour the Outcast, will tell the story of The Goose and her secret history, revealed on the 23rd of November 1996. Crossbones Graveyard is a unique place of peace and tranquillity nestled in the heart of Bankside and surrounded by new developments. It holds a deep cultural, historical and spiritual significance as it tells the history of London as seen from the bottom up. As well as holding the mortal remains of 15,000 women, children and men, it also carries the memory of the Winchester Geese, the women who worked in the brothels and "stews" of the medieval Liberty of the Clink. Licensed by the Church to ply their prostitute trade but denied a Christian burial.