Mincing, Seething and Staining

The City is famous for its mediaeval street plan of narrow, winding lanes and alleys, which has survived the Great Fire of London and two World Wars, retaining both their oddities of layout but also their often very strange names. Hence this walk’s title! Leaving All Hallows to explore the twists, turns and curious secrets of the City’s hidden byways, the route will introduce, amongst other curiosities: Dick Whittington’s London address, the Livery Companies always at ‘sixes and sevens’, the grave of Mother Goose, the mice that were said to have killed a man, a corpse in a cupboard, and the drug that fuelled seventeenth century business and was almost banned by a king.