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‘No one would have believed that in the last years of the 19th century, that this world was
being watched keenly and closely…’
HG Wells – War of the Worlds (1897)

Travel back in time with Lambeth Tour Guide, David Turnbull, to 1897 to discover why Waterloo Station, Waterloo Road, and Waterloo Bridge all make more than one appearance in HG Wells’ ground breaking alien invasion novel ‘The War of the Worlds’. This walk explores these connections in addition to Wells’ personal connections and relationships to well-known Lambeth residents of his era, while weaving in other aspects of his life, works, and lasting legacy.

Lambeth Guide, David Turnbull, is a published author of fantastical fiction. His latest novella ‘The Strange Case of Private Ornshaw and the Martian Detective’, set in a Victorian London devastated by the Martian invasion, depicted in War of the Wolds, appears in The Black Beacon book of Steampunk Sleuths.

Meeting point: Hotel Chocolat, Waterloo mainline station concourse
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