Date: -
Audience: SPAB Members and their guests
Price:
£6
Event details
Thursday 5 November
6.30pm
Everyone is welcome to join the SPAB London Group for an online trip down the Thames in 1749, using the extraordinary fourteen-foot-long printed panorama of the north bank of the Thames created by the Buck brothers in 1749.
Dr Peter Ross will take us on a journey along the early Georgian river from Westminster to the Tower of London. The luminous paintings of Canaletto will bring the journey to life in sunlit colour and the highly detailed map created by John Roque in 1747 will be our constant guide. Along the way we will encounter wharves, warehouses, watermen and water closets, dukes, cranes and churches, and even a lost palace or two.
Peter was, until recently, Principal Librarian at the City of London’s Guildhall Library. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and has acted as a historical consultant, including to Channel 4’s award-winning documentary Invitation to a Hanging. In May 2026, the Bodleian Library published his book, Insatiable Appetites: Eating out in Georgian London.
Anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you? Please email membership@spab.org.uk.
Photos and filming:We may take photos or videos at this event to be used in future promotion, including in print and online. Participants may take photos and short videos for personal use, with permission of the course leader and all other participants in frame. If you want to post on social media, please message SPAB's Comms Team (press@spab.org.uk or @spab1877) for permission. If your material is good, we might ask to share it with our followers.
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Photo credit: Dr Peter Ross