{"id":5656,"date":"2020-02-21T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2024-07-26T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T23:16:39","slug":"__trashed-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=5656","title":{"rendered":"London – Old Operating Theatre and The Clink"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in London for the second time in a week! This time we were going to explore some a couple of places we’ve often walked by but never explored. Train from home into Paddington then tube across to London Bridge. Before we started exploring, an early lunch at Borough Market and the Food Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Borough Market is a real hotspot for tourists and workers for lunch. With a huge variety of street food on offer, it’s not really a surprise. Today we reverted back to an old favourite – fish and prawn wraps with chilli sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From here, we walked around the corner heading towards The Shard. The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret<\/strong> <\/a>had always intrigued us as we passed by so wanted to explore more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s housed in the attic of the early eighteenth-century church of the Old St Thomas\u2019 Hospital and offers a unique insight into the history of medicine and surgery. The original timber-framed Herb Garret was once used to dry and store herbs for patients\u2019 medicines, and in 1822, an operating theatre was installed. Once used for operations that predated anaesthetics and antiseptics, it is the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe for female patients.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Access to the museum is via a narrow spiral staircase. Once in the attic, the space opened up and a lesson in herbs and medicine. Most fascinating was the operating theatre. It was so incredibly basic and people would come in to watch the procedures!<\/p>\n\n\n

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