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Migration Stories: Tropical Plants in London

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Migration Stories: Tropical Plants in London



Saturday 21 June

13:45 - 15:15

Event Type
Tour
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This event is for Everyone This event is for Built environment professionals This event is for College and university students This event is for Families This event is for Local residents This event is for Young people aged 10-16

How did tropical and rainforest plants make their way into English gardens?

Join us to see where Loddiges' famous Botanic Nursery Garden had once stood and learn how their plant trading transformed gardens around the world. During this tour, we will hear stories from the plants themselves - how their ancestors were captured from home soil and brought to East London by sea. As we walk by the now buried Palm House, we will listen to plant voices who had been stored in this vast 19th C greenhouse and hear of their migration stories and colonial histories.

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Location

Hackney Central Library - meet in the lobby

1 Reading Ln,
London
E8 1GQ

We will meet together before we start just inside the main entrance of Hackney Central Library. The Library is the large grey modern building - look for the Library banners. I will be looking for you - please arrive 15 minutes early.

Nearest station: Hackney Central Station


Accessibility


Accessible toilet
Level access, with no/automatic doors
Level access, with some step(s)
Relaxed


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We will meet in the lobby of Hackney Central Library, and proceed together on a short walk - which is on level ground. I will explain the route before we begin to walk, and I will always point out the way back to Hackney Central Library. There is an accessible WC for public use on the first floor of Hackney Central Library - accessible by lift to the library's first floor.

Image: Catherine Harrington

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Catherine Harrington



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