Private tour in Belfast Tom T
up to 10 people
1 hour 30 minutes
Walking
1
Tom T.
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This Belfast history walking tour provides a broad overview of the city's interesting medical history. I'll tell you all about the first hospital in Belfast; Victorian anti-vaxers and tea mania causing 'insanity'! The detrimental impact of eating sewage polluted sea food and how working in the linen mills could wreck your lungs, rot your feet and cut off your arm. I'll share the sad tales of the Blitz. Did you know it was the biggest health emergency in Belfast? Learn how pandemics and epidemics ravaged the city and how poor housing, poverty and poor diet destroyed the health of many Belfast residents. Finally, you will meet uplifting and inspiring individuals! Those who aimed to better the health of Belfast and its citizens such as social activist Mary Ann McCraken, the inventor of the milk of magnesia, Sir James Murray and revolutionary doctor William Drennan. This walking tour is an introduction to the diseases, doctors and medical history of the city and you don't need to be a clinician to enjoy it!
The tour starts at Belfast's oldest hospital. Clifton House, the Poor House, opened in 1774, as a combined a 36-person poorhouse and a 24-bed infirmary. We then move to Clifton Street Cemetery to look at how body snatchers illegally disinterred the dead to provide bodies for medical students to dissect. After that we head into town and pass where famous doctors lived and worked. This includes Dr James Murray who invented the Milk of Magnesia and Dr William Drennan who inoculated children against smallpox. We shall also stop off at Winecellar Entry, where in 1900 a seafood restaurant was among many that sold contaminated shellfish killing hundreds across the city. The tour ends at Belfast City Hall (BT1 5GS) near where in the 1830s the legendary Dr Bloom claimed to cure all manner of diseases from cancer to the dropsy. * This tour can be customized upon request. Contact me to discuss.
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This is a walking tour. Bring comfortable shoes.
Airport: ,Cruise: ,ByGuide: MEET: In front of The Poor House gates (also known as Clifton House), 2 North Queen Street, Belfast, Belfast, BT15 1ES United Kingdom.
Book with a 20% deposit!
Size:
up to 10 people
Duration:
1 hour 30 minutes
Transportation:
Walking
1
Book with a 20% deposit!
Size:
up to 10 people
Duration:
1 hour 30 minutes
Transportation:
Walking
1
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