GPN hosts a social event followed by an optional lunch on Saturday 20th May2023
Let's walk in the City of London.
It is a free event to member and pay as you want for guests., it is limited to 20 people.
Clerkenwell an area that changed the world !
Clerkenwell an area of London that has so much history, right at our front door!
Join us, explore and find answers to questions such as:–
- Where are the Lakes & Waterfalls right in Central London? (*Stairs)
- Where did Oliver Cromwell get married? (*Stairs)
- Where did the Carthusian Monks settle?
- Where is one of the medieval plague burial grounds?
- Where did ‘Inspector Poirot live?
- Where was the global game we now know as ‘Football’ codified?
- Where did Queen Elizabeth I live, in preparation for her Coronation?
Also
- Walk the Streets of Bartholomew Fair and the streets of Dickens Oliver Twist to see the sights in the novel.
- Visit the most famous (1,000-year-old) church in the world - that no one has ever heard of!
- Learn about the world’s longest-serving hospital that is also a thousand years old.
- Walk through a nine-hundred-year-old market that is still trading today.
- Do you know where James Bond’s MI6 secret Headquarters are?
- Where did Sherlock meet Dr Watson?
- See (arguably) the Birthplace of Communism.
Our in-house “blue badge” guide will show us much, much more ! So come and see !!!!
Date: Saturday 20th May 2023
Location: Piazza Café - Next to Barbican Underground Station exit, Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4AJ (Metropolitan, Hammersmith & Circle Line)
Program : Meet inside Piazza Café ( 137 Aldersgate Street ), which is just next to Barbican Underground Station, at 11am for a quick tea and Coffee. We will proceed at 11.30am prompt.
Our expert guide, Rob, will leads us through from Barbican to Clerkenwell, giving talks on various historical sites along the way. His historical guided tour is free and will finish around 2pm. Then to end the afternoon, we will have lunch in a local pub.
Transport :
Barbican Underground Station – Metropolitan , Hammersmith and Circle Line
Buses – Numbers : 4 , 56 , 153
Map :
(*Stairs) = There are two flights of stairs up to visit the areas marked, two flights down, and then back to Barbican, after which its all flat.
Conviviality au 'rendez-vous'.
Members: Free
Non-Members: PAYW
Expect a mix of great people and conversation to make meaningful social and business contacts.
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I very much look forward to seeing you soon.
With all best wishes,
J-F.
Jean-François Dor
Founder
The Gay Professional Network
jf@gpn.one
www.gpn.one
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Profile of people attending are: #Directors, #Freelancers, #Soletraders, #Doctors, #Lawyers, #Bankers, #Hedge Funds Owner, #PropertyDevelopers, #CEO, #Diplomats, #Actors, #Entrepreneur, #Singers, #Models, #students aspiring to network with people in the know, people looking at their next step in their careers and others in the entertainment and communication industry . All very nice people in a relaxed atmosphere.
