C20 Society: Seven Dials walk: the 1920s and 1930s, and the making of modern London

Where: The Centre of Seven Dials,
London, WC2H 9HA
United Kingdom

Date: 27 June, 10am -12pm

Join historian Matt Houlbrook on a journey into a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Seven Dials was one of London’s most diverse neighbourhoods, home to migrant and working-class communities, bohemian clubs and cafes. But business leaders and city planners had other ideas.

Beginning with a rancorous libel trial of 1927, in which a Sierra Leonean café owner and his wife confronted the racist newspaper that destroyed their business, Matt’s tour of Seven Dials reveals the surprising history of this remarkable neighbourhood.

The tour includes the site of long-forgotten cafes and queer nightclubs, the tenements, shops, and workshops where the people of Seven Dials lived, worked, and played, and modernist office blocks that were never built, as well as St Giles Buildings (1925, C Westcott Reeves and Alfred Rason) and the Cambridge Theatre (1930, Wimperis, Simpson, and Guthrie).

For further information and booking please follow the link:

https://secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=62&EventId=1317

Cost: £12.50 – £25