Dr Kat and The Winchester Geese

If you found yourself in medieval or early modern Southwark, you might encounter a group of people known as Winchester's Geese. This video explores who they were, how they earned their name and what they were doing in Southwark.

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyright Mu...  ]

For details of the findings from the Museum of London’s dig of the Crossbones site: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/col...

Images:

Plaque showing Henry of Blois (c.1150). Held by the British Museum

Winchester Palace, 1660 drawing by Wenceslas Hollar

Photograph of the remains of Winchester Palace at night (contemporary)

Selection of photographs of the Crossbones Memorial Garden, taken by Katy Nicholls and hosted on the Crossbones website: http://crossbones.org.uk/ (visit this page for more information about the site, its history, tours and events.

Garry Knight’s photograph of the ribbons and mementos on the Red Gate at Crossbones


Quoted texts:

John Stow, A Survey of London (1598)

Matthew Concanen and Aaron Morgan, History and Antiquities of the Parish of St Saviour’s, Southwark (1795)

William Taylor (1833), as referenced in https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...