Seven Dials was built in the 17th century with small houses and shops in streets radiating from a pillar sundial. The area declined over the following decades and when Charles Dickens wrote about it in ‘Sketches by Boz’ had degenerated into a squalid slum, notorious as one of the poorest parts of central London.  In recent decades it has been transformed into a most attractive centre of small fashion shops at the heart of London’s Theatre district. On the way find out the area’s connections with what a poet wrote to his mistress, a famous artist who scavenged from waste skips and a clock regulated by water.

1½ - 2 hours

11.00 am outside Tottenham Court Road tube station exit 4 - W1A 1DD

£8 per person.

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