A return walk to Somerset House via Gawber Street, Curtain Road, Goswell Road, Theobald’s Road and Drury Lane returning via The Well and Bucket on Bethnal Green Road, to Mare Street at a distance of 8.9 miles.

 Prism  22.04.15

“…and reminded of the recent talk at The Society in Somerset House, I used the recently purchased optical instrument and gazed toward this most celestial of orbs to witness for myself the prismic effect it produced within said and was indeed profoundly moved by the colours I witnessed, though sadly it took some little time to recover my eyesight from these labours.”

Extract:    ‘The Diary of William Bull’   April 23rd 1797

attrib: William H. David’s ‘The Bull Family of London’ pub. 1847