SCATTER PRESENTS
Here Lay
Your Hearts
An audio journey by Bee Taylor.
Walk from Monument to Crossbones Graveyard in London, rediscovering historical sex workers of Southwark - the Winchester Geese.
Launches on 15 September. Self-guided walks available until the end of September.
Part of Totally Thames Festival 2024.
Embark on an audio journey through London’s past from Monument to Crossbones Graveyard. Hear the voices of Southwark women known as the Winchester Geese - sex workers - who, despite being licensed by the church until the 17th Century, were denied Christian burials.
Here Lay Your Hearts is about the women who lived and worked in Southwark and how their stories have been (un)recorded. At the journey’s end - Crossbones Graveyard - listeners can honour the memory of 15,000 outcasts.
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The walk begins at Monument to the Great Fire of London and takes approximately one hour.
You can walk at any time once you have booked your tickets.
You will need to bring your own headphones and device to access the audio.
Take a look closer, careful what you see
Wander with us
Here Lay Your Hearts was presented as part of Totally Thames Festival 2024. We hope to make the audio journey available again in the future.
If you attended the audio walk then we would love to gather your thoughts and feedback. You can do so here if you would like to.
Watch: Southwark's forgotten lives
Filmmaker Tim Day headed down to Crossbones Graveyard with Bee to find out more about the Winchester Geese and what happened on the Southside of River Thames in the post-medieval period. See what he discovered:
Crossbones Graveyard is managed by Bankside Open Spaces Trust - an environmental and volunteering charity caring for green spaces in London. www.bost.org.uk
You can donate to the work being done to protect Crossbones Graveyard here.
Creatives
Audio and movement performed by Audrey Xiarui Corno, Liv Jones, and Mima Beauchamp
Writer and director Bee Taylor
Sound designer Jack Merritt-Webster
Movement director Mima Beauchamp
Photographer Stefan Hanegraaf
Digital marketing consultant Hanife Hursit
Produced by Finlay Carroll and Bee Taylor for SCATTER
Thanks to
Flo Hill-Jenkins
John Constable
Mick Church
Bankside Open Spaces Trust
Crossbones Graveyard and its volunteers
The Golden Hinde
Thames Festival Trust
Alice Tomlinson
Shoreditch Town Hall
Susannah Bramwell
Jules Lechler-Lombardi