All the delights and delicacies of a London Victorian Christmas with Charles Dickens' famous story A Christmas Carol as your route map and inspiration.

 

 

And Jean as your guide. Here she is, with the Lord Mayor of London, on the steps of the Mansion House. (The shot was taken on the Christmas Eve Christmas Carol & Seasonal Traditions walk. Door opened and there he was! Came out. Addressed a group of hugely delighted walkers. One of whom, needless to say, had the presence of mind to snap this wonderful shot.)

 

 

We'll deck the streets of London with balls of jolly. Scrooge and Marley and the Cratchits...they're all here. This was where Dickens' imagination took wing and where the characters did their thing. And as we make their acquaintance we'll spice things with warming seasonal stories of turkeys and boars' heads, Christmas puds, mince pies and pantomimes; cards, crackers, Christmas trees and mistletoe. Let alone the bells that rang out on Christmas morning to wake Scrooge up – a much changed character.

 

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!

Charles Dickens's Christmas Carol & Seasonal Traditions
makes several appearance in the From the Repertory programme
from early December onwards.

This year (2011) we'll be running it two more times:

Saturday, December 31 at 2.30 pm

Sunday, January 1 at 2.30 pm
The "Latecomers Catch-up Stop" is in Trinity Gardens.

The walk ends near St. Paul'sTube.