Festival Walk: Handel's West End

Handel made London his home from 1712 until his death in 1759, a period during which the West End became the fashionable enclave it remains to this day. A Blue Badge Guide leads an historical walk, beginning in Haymarket at the site of the composer's early operatic triumphs and then wending a way though St James's and Mayfair to his home in Brook Street. (The walk and tour of Handel House Museum takes approximately 100 minutes and begins at the entrance to Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket.