Sights of the City Part III with Sam Jacobs

DATE:Sunday 20th November 2022

TIME:11:00 — 12:30pm

VENUE:Meet at a gate in the City's Roman Wall

In the third and final walk in Sam’s much-loved City of London walk series, we start at a gate in the City’s Roman wall. During the tour we take in so much history: Chaucer, the Reformation, Jack the Ripper, Synagogues large and small, Ashkenazi and Sephardi and that’s just in the first minutes. We visit the site of the Houndsditch robbery, and sites of worship used by Huguenot, Methodist, Jewish and Islamic faiths. The area is very lively and we see the birthplaces of some unlikely characters. Spitalfields market offers many delights and it’s likely we’ll end up enjoying some of them.

TICKET PRICE: £10 per person

Sam Jacobs is a Circle Square member with a passion for the history of London. He studied English Literature at Cambridge University and is a qualified City of London guide. He has worked in the technology industry since the 1990s and is a Londoner through and through. Sam has recently published a new book, “Literary Sights of the City of London – from Chaucer to Harry Potter.”