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Event
- Title:
- Black History Walk
- When:
- 19.10.2008 14.00 h
- Where:
- The Cuming Museum, Old Town Hall - Southwark
- Category:
- Walks
Description
Join Steve Martin on this comprehensive tour which will take in:
* Walworth Road, the site of the home of William Davidson, unsung 19th century Black radical and Cato Street conspirator.
* Spurgeon's Tabernacle and the Black religious presence in Walworth Braganza Street, the site of Mary Seacole's four-day pageant at Royal Surrey Gardens in 1857.
* Kennington Common, William Cuffay and Black involvement in the Chartist movement and Chartist riots in 1848.
* St Mark's church, the site where the radical and revolutionary preacher Robert Wedderburn is believed to have spoken.
* The Oval, the story of Andrew Watson 1881, the first Black International footballer...and much more!
Meeting point
The Cuming Museum (details below)
Free.
Venue
- Venue:
- The Cuming Museum, Old Town Hall - Website
- Street:
- 151 Walworth Road
- Postcode:
- SE17 1RY
- City:
- Southwark
- Area/Borough:
- London
- Country:
- UK
Description
Henry Syer Cuming left the collection amassed by himself and his father Richard to the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark when he died in 1902. His will stated "My museum illustrative of natural history, archaeology and ethnology with my coins and medals and along with all other curios" be exhibited in "a suitable and spacious gallery or apartments in connection with Newington Public Library."
The museum was to be known as the Cuming Museum and he left a sum of money to employ a curator. The museum was opened in 1906 by Lord Rothschild.
Phone: 020 7525 2332
Open: Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10am to 5pm. Admission is free.
Rail and tube: Elephant and Castle or Kennington
Buses: 12, 35, 40, 45, 68, 148, 171, 176, P5, 343, 468
The museum is fully wheelchair accessible.
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