The Architecture of Bloomsbury
Alec Forshaw
Times
Sunday, 25 October 2026
14:30 – 15:30
Admission
Free
Just Turn UpAn illustrated talk on the architectural development of Bloomsbury over four centuries.
Historian and long-standing local resident, Alec Forshaw, explores the physical and architectural development of Bloomsbury from the 17th to the 21st centuries. He will encompass the early development of the Southampton and Bedford estates, the 18th century Foundling Hospital and the opening of the British Museum, the arrival of the railways and the radical changes of the 19th century, including the growth of university, hospitals and other institutions, the upheavals of the 20th century and the battles fo conserve and improve the area that continue to the present day.
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