Pinboard Extra: CoolTan’s Solstice South London Walk


Midnight-Walk

What a totally brilliant way to spend the summer solstice in London – a midnight walk around some of the southside’s most fascinating and psychology-steeped buildings.

It’s being hosted by CoolTan Arts – the mental health charity named after the former sun tan lotion factory that once stood on the spot where SW9’s controversial new Brixton Square complex now sits.

This Midsummer’s weekend, nature’s power is said to be at full force and so the walk – in keeping with its timing – takes in unusually designed buildings, or those with interesting pasts, that have provoked psychological reactions in people.

crossbones graveyardAs such, it includes the Marshalsea on Borough High Street, the debtors’ prison where Charles Dickens’ father was incarcerated; the Heygate, Elephant and Castle’s the huge neo-Brutalist estate currently being demolished; Camberwell House, a former asylum; and Cross Bones Cemetery in Redcross Way, SE1 (left), a disused post-Medieval burial ground once on unconsecrated graveyard for sex workers.

All are welcome on this free* walk, which takes place Saturday 22 June 2013 at 11.45pm. The meeting point is Tate Modern, Turbine Hall entrance, Bankside, SE1 and the end point will be the Maudsley Hospital on Denmark Hill, SE5. Call  0798 565 8443 if you cannot find the group of walkers on the evening.
* But donations are welcome!

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