THE THE LONDON COURSE : THE WORLD’S FIRST CITY: THE LEGACY and LIFE OF VICTORIAN LONDON

How did people live in the great I mperial City? 1837-1901 was a period of radical change: suburbs, industry, commerce, speed, immigration and new lifestyles. Despite the emergence of a solid middle class, there were appalling divisions in the class structure. But so outstanding was progress that much of Victorian achievement remains the infrastructure of London today.

KENNINGTON (WALK)

Kennington is one of the lesser known inner suburbs of 18th and 19th c. London as one races through on the road to Brighton. The overall theme of this walk is the superb range of G eorgian terraced housing and Victorian developments particularly along K ennington P ark Road, Cleaver Square and K ennington P ark. Significantly the walk begins with the very first station of the electrified underground Tube and ends with the imaginatively designed post-war Brandon Estate.