Join the crowds at a royal joust in honour of Elizabeth I.

For more than 800 years, in frosty weather the frozen Thames played host to spectacular festivals.

The court performances of the early seventeenth century presented an image of perfect political harmony; but backstage the reality was very different.

The sculptural mural, ‘Pied Piper’, by Willi Soukop, was installed on the Elmington estate in Camberwell in 1959 by the London County Council. This viewpoint looks at the theme of the Pied Piper and how the LCC wanted the mural to resonate with residents, in particular, children.