CROSSBONES GRAVEYARD: Burying the Outcasts
- Brompton Cemetery
Description
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Something A Little Different, Theatre/Arts and Classes
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Tickets from £13.20
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Fulham
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Over 18
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Sat, 13th Oct 2018 @ 13:00 - 14:30
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13:00 - 14:30
In the backstreets of South London, a short walk from Shakespeare’s Globe is the site of an old burial ground with an extraordinary history. For centuries it was the outcasts’ graveyard for the area formerly known as the Mint, one of London’s poorest and most violent slums. According to local lore, it was the final resting place for the Winchester Geese, medieval sex workers licensed by the Bishop of Winchester to work in the brothels of The Liberty of the Clink, which lay outside the jurisdiction of the City of London.
By the time it closed in 1853, Crossbones held the mortal remains of an estimated 15,000 paupers. The eastern party was dug up in the 1990s during work on the Jubilee Line extension. Jelena Bekvalac will reveal the story of the excavation of the buried bones on this site.
In 1996, the writer John Constable had a vision in which The Goose revealed the secret history of Crossbones. This was the inspiration for the Southwark Mysteries – the epic cycle of poems, plays and esoteric lore preformed in The Globe and Southwark Cathedral. John Constable will reveal the history of the site and how he was inspired by it.
Tickets £12 including a Hendrick's Gin cocktail.
John Constable
John Constable (aka John Crow) is a playwright, poet, performer, activist and the urban shaman of Crossbones. He has lived in Southwark since 1986 and conducted guided tours of the Brough and Bankside area since 1998. Much of his work, which attempts to blend the divisions between life and art, is inspired by London’s “outlaw borough”. “The Southwark Mysteries” in which a swearing Jesus returns to save sinners in Southwark, outraged many traditional church-goers when it was staged in Southwark Cathedral on Easter Sunday 2000.
Jelena Bekvalac
Jelena Bekvalac is the Curator of Human Osteology at the Museum of London and was an original member of the research osteologist team at the Wellcome funded Centre for Human Bioarchaeology.
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Tickets/Times
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Crossbones Graveyard
Includes a free Hendrick's Gin Cocktail
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13:00 - 14:30 | £13.20 |
Location
Address
Brompton Cemetery, SW10 9UG
Area
Fulham
Nearest Station
Fulham Broadway (Tube)
Organiser
A Curious Invitation and Antique Beat
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2. Tickets are issued subject to the rules and regulations of the venue.
3. Please check your tickets, as mistakes cannot always be rectified.
4. Occasionally, events are cancelled or postponed by the promoter, team, performer or venue for a variety of reasons. If the event is cancelled, please contact us for information on receiving a refund from the responsible party. If the event was moved or rescheduled, the venue or promoter may set refund limitations. It is your responsibility to ascertain the date and time of any rearranged event.
5. The venue reserves the right to refuse admission and may on occasion have to conduct security searches to ensure the safety of the patrons.
6. Every effort to admit latecomers will be made at a suitable break in the event, but admission cannot always be guaranteed.
7. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase.
8. Tickets are sold subject to the venue or promoter's right to alter or vary the programme due to events or circumstances beyond its control without being obliged to refund monies or exchange tickets.
9. If this ticket is re-sold or transferred for profit or commercial gain by anyone other than the promoter, venue management, DesignMyNight or one of their authorised sub-agents, it will become voidable and the holder may be
refused entry to or ejected from the venue.
10. The venue may operate a No Smoking Policy.
11. The promoter, venue management and DesignMyNight accept no responsibility for any personal property.
12. The event listed on the purchased ticket is strictly for ticket holders who are over 18 years of age. Identification may be required.
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