UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS BELGRAVIA

Adults: £4.95  Seniors: £4.95
Availability: All year, every day
Coach miles: 0
Walking: Gentle
Wheelchair access: Good

Elegant and affluent are perhaps the two words which most readily spring to mind when one thinks of Belgravia. This is where the wealthiest people in London have lived for the past hundred and fifty years. It may be hard to imagine, but in the 18th century things were quite different. At that time the area was infamous for its frequent murders and violent robberies and members of polite

society ventured there at their peril. Our walking tour past stuccoed terraces and through tree-lined squares takes in the whole gamut of Belgravia's history and we meet a host of characters from Margaret Thatcher and Neville Chamberlain to Vivien Leigh and Frederic Chopin. Come with us and let our guide show you how and where the other half lives.

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