Thu, 27 Mar
|Mycenae House
A PG Rated Guide to the Royal Observatory / Shakespeare & Astronomy
By Ross Code / Paul Miller DETAILS ON HOW TO BOOK FOR THIS EVENT ARE EMAILED TO MEMBERS IN THE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
Time & Location
27 Mar 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
Mycenae House, 90 Mycenae Rd, London SE3 7SE, UK
About the Event
Ross Code:
Would you like to know what life was really like living and working at the Royal Observatory, the stories that aren’t included in the official guidebooks and histories?
Last summer, we introduced a new guided tour for our visitors to the Royal Observatory which has been very well received.
To prepare we undertook a lot of research into the history of the Observatory and the people that lived and worked here as we wanted to make the tour different and engaging by including stories and anecdotes our visitors wouldn’t get elsewhere. However, we soon found the stories that most interested, amused, and shocked us were those that couldn’t be included as we needed to keep the tour suitable for visitors of all ages including young children.
In this short talk I’d like to share a few of these stories including murders and deaths, thefts, prostitutes, incest, affairs and…