Unique tour of the 200 year old waterway from an African/Caribbean perspective showing the secrets and lies of London’s industrial past.
Explore quiet backwaters, hidden streets and busy highways while filling in the blanks on the banks of a long neglected watery history.
We will cover:
- Uncredited Black inventors that changed the world
- Railways, rivers and Black British Civil Rights
- Black deaths in white police custody, UFFC to BLM, Hackney to Tottenham
- Armed white working class revolution in the UK, the Jamaican connection
- Black teachers and academic excellence
- Luxuries and classic British culture
- Ancient Greek authors who were not Greek at all
- Gentrification, kerb crawling, raving and prosecutions
- British sewage in the Caribbean
- Black History Walks Volume 1 from Jacaranda books
Other coming events from Black History Walks
- The Amazing true story of Flight Lieutenant John Henry Smythe
- Black History Bus tour
- Theatreland’s Black History Walk
- How Black People Won World War 2
- African Odysseys, racism at the BFI 16,000 signatures
- Harlem in Mayfair