Walking Tour – The Life of Jack Sheppard: From Gin Lane to the Fatal Tree:

A Seven Dials walk follows the life of eighteenth-century thief Jack Sheppard and the criminal world around Gin Lane.

The walk explores Sheppard’s life as a carpenter turned housebreaker, his clashes with thief-taker Jonathan Wild, prison escapes and the street culture of St Giles. It also considers gin-selling, sex work and the observers who visited London’s rookeries. It meets outside Exit 3 at Leicester Square station, on the east side of Charing Cross Road at Great Newport Street. Meeting instructions: Meet outside Exit 3, on the Charing Cross Road east side at Great Newport Street.