Vivien Whelpton, Battlefield Guide and biographer of Richard Aldington, will be leading a walk in Bloomsbury, London, in July of this year. The tour will cover places associated with Wilfred Owen, who enlisted in London in 1915, and also the poets Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Aldington, the American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Harold Monro, T.S. Eliot and W.B.Yeats. The tour will cover the Bloomsbury connections - and the connections with one another - of these poets during and immediately prior to the First World War.
The tour will meet from noon onwards on Saturday 18th July 2015 at The Royal George public house, Eversholt Street, London NW1 1DG, which is adjacent to Euston Station. There is an opportunity for people to get themselves a pub lunch in advance of the tour, should they wish. The tour will then start from the pub at 1.45pm and will take approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. We will end the tour in the Bloomsbury area at a location where people will have the option of a reviving tea or coffee.
The tour is free and open to all (members of WOA and SSF and non-members), however, places are limited to 20, on a first come, first served basis. To reserve a place, please contact Frances Casey at secretary@wilfredowen.org.uk
