BRING YOUR BABY

Toilets and baby change at the start and end of the walk at The Royal Exchange.

Stop for a half hour lunch break at Leadenhall Market.

'A Christmas Carol' is Charles Dickens's best known and best loved work. The numerous adaptations of the novella that are being performed in London this Christmas show that the story is just as popular today as in 1843 when it was published.
Famously telling the story of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge as he spends Christmas Eve in the company of the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, on this walk we will visit numerous locations from the narrative.
What you’ll see and hear about on this walk:
- Victorian Leadenhall Market - decorated for Christmas - with many connections to Dickens (and Harry Potter!).
- Sites of Ebeneezer Scrooge’s Counting House and a possible contender for his home.
- Where Scrooge's clerk Bob Cratchit "went down a slide... twenty times in honour of it being Christmas-eve".
- The peaceful churchyard from ‘Our Mutual Friend’, described by Dickens as the church of ‘the Great Golden Keys', and where Scrooge may have been shown his own grave by The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.
- Many atmospheric ancient courts and alleyways, where we encounter Dickens’ favourite chop house, a setting for The Pickwick Papers, and very possibly where Scrooge spends Christmas Eve eating "..his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern".
- The church "...whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a gothic window in the wall...".
- The building where Scrooge observes aquaintances discussing his death.
- Plus! Hear about the some Victorian Christmas traditions along the way, including making Christmas puddings, pulling crackers, sending cards and assembling a Christmas tree - and find out where in London some of these were invented!

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