Date: Wednesday 6 August 2025 (bookings will close on Tue 29 July at 9am)
Time: 11 am – 3 pm
Who can attend: Society members and their guests
Cost: £65
Dress code: Casual to suit the weather on the day
Venue Meeting Point: Royal College Of Physicians, Regent’s Park
Organiser: sarawaldron57@gmail.com

Members’ area (LMS): Click here to book

HOMES FOR HEALING: AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF HEALING
A Walking Tour Led by Berwyn Kinsey

The number of places is limited to 20 and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Please feel free to invite one or more guests.

From fashionable town houses to squalid workhouses, lost priories to Princes’ palaces, bloodied barber shops and seamen’s missions: the bewildering array of structures sequestered by surgeons and physicians is sure to fascinate anyone with an interest in the history of medicine, architecture or simply a love of beautiful buildings.

Join this stroll through the streets of the Capital to encounter some of the city’s most celebrated homes for healing, uncover hidden gems including an art deco masterpiece, a regency cure for rheumatism anda last remaining remnant of The Poor Laws. Along the way hear the often untold stories of those who came in search of a cure.

At the end of the guided tour we will be having a hearty lunch at a local hostelry.

Refunds, minus a £5 admin fee (per ticket), will be offered, upon request, to anyone cancelling for any reason up to six working days before an event. After this time, no refunds are available.

The Livery Committee is the Society’s members’ social committee and is separate from the main Society Programme. It operates outside of the governance of the Society, and uses a money-pooling system for all of its events. Net receipts collected by the Society on their behalf are passed to the Livery Committee.