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Flowers at the East End Maternity Hospital
Discover the work of Miranda and Octavia Hill’s Kyrle Society, and their mission to ‘bring beauty home to the people’ in the late-nineteenth century.
The Royal Westminster Aquarium
Come on a visit to the amusement halls of the Royal Westminster Aquarium where you’ll be in good company with educated dogs, ladies on bicycles, frozen flowers, and – possibly – some fish…
Flower Missions of the East End
Discover the Spitalfields ‘Home of Industry’ where flowers were sent by train from the countryside to be distributed by the women of the Bible Flower Mission amongst the poor of the East End.
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Fanny Kelly and how Soho’s Royalty Theatre ruined her health and career
How could the launch of a theatre with the most modern, prize-winning stage machinery go so disastrously wrong?
