Our penultimate stop along the river Fleet is the Holborn Viaduct, which was built in the 1860s and costed £2.5 million (over £200 million today) to construct. Ahead of the Viaduct being built, the river Fleet would have run through it on its way into the Thames.

On the viaduct you'll see a statue of Sir William Walworth, the Lord Mayor of London in 1381 during the Peasants Revolt. King Richard II and Sir William Walworth famously met the rebels of the Peasants' Revolt on the 'Smooth Field' or Smithfield as we now call it, near to where the museum's future home will be in West Smithfield. #WednesdayWalks

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