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Date: Saturday 01 October 2022
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Venue: Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, Wandsworth, London, SW11 5TN, GB
'Up the Junction' Guided Walk is the perfect warm-up to 'The People of Wardley Street' project, unveiling a plaque to celebrate Romany Gypsy and Traveller heritage in Wandsworth a few weeks later.
It explores locations relevant to this history in the neighbouring Battersea area, next door to Clapham Junction. Amongst a tangle of railway lines, we will see how Victorian industrialisation attracted nomadic people to the edges of the city and visit the locations of some of the yards where they settled in the last decades of the 19th century. The Walk also takes in two remarkable housing estates, Latchmere and Shaftesbury and features many of the extraordinary personalities who made there mark in this fascinating area; Charlotte Despard, John Burns and Shapurji Saklatvala.
This event will be free to attend thanks to funding from the Mayor of London's Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm.