The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret

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Guy's Hospital 1 See reverse for Historical Highlights 4 13 18 Pubs Markets 3 5 4 7 1. The Miller & Shopping 1 8 3 2. The Britannia 12. 14 3. 13. Vinegar Yard 4. The Horseshoe 14. 2 19 5. The Woolpack High Street Shops 6 9 5 Green Spaces Cultural Spaces 20 10 6. Potter's Fields 15. HMS Belfast 7. St. John's Churchyard 16. Bridge 21 8. Guy's Street Park 17. Science Gallery 9. Leathermarket Gardens 18. Greenwood Theatre 10. Tanner Street Park 19. Fashion & 7 11. St. Mary Textile Museum 11 Magdalen Courtyard 20. Morocco Bound Creative Studio 21. The White Cube

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1. The Old Operating Theatre 2. John Keats Blue Plaque 3. Site of Guy's Hospital 4. The Bermondsey Horror Museum & Herb Garret Better known as a Romantic poet, Burial Ground During the worst cholera epidemic in Housed in the attic of the early 18th Keats began an earlier career in Until a series of Burial Acts were 1849, London witnessed a terrible century church of the old St medicine. After completing an passed in the 1850s that limited murder. 3 Miniver Place was the Thomas' Hospital, this atmospheric apprenticeship in pharmacy and interments in cities, most hospitals home to Fredrick & Maria Manning. museum offers a unique insight into surgery, Keats registered as a had their own burial grounds. Following a contrived plan, the the history of medicine and surgery. student at Guy’s Hospital. He was Patients who died in a hospital were couple enticed Maria’s former The original timber framed Herb soon promoted to a ‘dresser’, a role either claimed by a friend or relative wealthy lover to the house to kill and Garret was once used to store and that involved both assisting and or left to be buried by the hospital at rob him. His body was discovered a dry herbs for patients' medicines. In performing operations. He received a charge. If a burial fee had not week later and the Mannings were 1822 a women's operating theatre his medical license in 1816, but been acquired or the body had arrested. Both were found guilty and was installed where operations decided to leave medicine to pursue remained unclaimed the corpses sentenced to death. Over 30.000 such as amputations would be his true desire in becoming a poet. would often go under a post mortem people attended their execution carried out, predating anaesthetics Like many of his contemporaries, examination (dissected) and then including Charles Dickens, who later and antiseptics. It is the oldest Keats contracted tuberculosis and buried at the expense of the based one of his characters in Bleak surviving surgical theatre in . died at the age of 25. hospital. House on Maira’s life.

5. Guinness Trust Buildings 6. Leather Market 7. St Mary Magdalen Church If you enjoyed this map and would 19th century London witnessed a The leather-making industry in A church is first recorded on this like to participate in the full length wave in philanthropic housing Bermondsey dates back hundreds site in 1290, but rebuilt in 1680. The guided walking tour, we'll be developments. In 1890, Edward of years and formed one the area's adjoining churchyard closed for offering this over the summer. Guinness, founder of the Guinness biggest employers. Good water burials in 1854. The small cream Please visit us at brewery, donated £200,000 to set supply, oak trees and space to keep building to the right was once the www.oldoperatingtheatre.com up the Guinness Trust. His vision animals led Bermondsey to be parish Watch-House. From the 17th & @oldoperatingtheatre was to improve the lives of the hailed as ‘the land of leather’. After century, nightwatchmen were hired to discover more. working poor. Estates were built the animals were slaughtered for to keep guard over the parish at with “health, morality and social meat, the skins would arrive at the night. These houses provided stability” in mind. With communal tanneries to be made into leather, a somewhere to shelter and a holding We hope to see you again soon! sculleries and toilets, glazed bricks process that involved using urine, space for suspects until morning #AtLondonBridge and tiles were used to prevent salt, lime, dog and pigeon dung. when justices examined the night's The Old Operating Theatre disease spreading. Tenants were Bermondsey was once the smelliest catch. Following an increase in Museum & Herb Garret is a expected to scrub the corridors and district in London. The last working crime during the 18th century, a Registered Charity (no. 1155078) their own quarters frequently. tannery in the area closed in 1997. daytime watch was established.