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This is Britain’s largest clown school, and the only place one where you can be awarded a degree (BA Hons) from a man in an orange wig and oversized shoes as you leap through a ring of fire.
Thank sawdust for Circus Space, a Hoxton-based centre of education and exhibition of the finest traditional circus arts. Once a Victorian power station, the Vestry of St Leonard Shoreditch Electric Light Station, was rescued from collapse in 1994 and re-appropriated to the capital's home of Big Top bravado.
The last vestiges of its former use can be seen in an engraving above the door - words which give vitality to the weary acrobat, "e pulvere lux et vis," or "Out of the dust, light and power". Taking into account that the Borough of Shoreditch motto is "More Light, More Power", it is not hard to see how central this building has always been.
This is also the starting location for Field Trip Day! From here you will set out on a path of your own choosing, answering trivia for prizes, finding unexpected wonders along the way, and ending up at Lime Wharf for food, drink and music!
1.) Onto Old St, turn west and walk back to Old St. Roundabout, take the south exit onto City Rd. keep going until you see the large Bunhill Fields Burial Ground at 38 City Road, you might just find some of the cemeteries more famous residents hanging around...
2.) Why not engross yourself in the religion of John Wesley and visit the The Methodist Museum. Onto Old St, turn west and walk back to Old St. Roundabout, take the south exit onto City Rd. You'll find the Museum on your left at number 49.
3.) Make your way out to Old Street, turn right, and then left on Paul Street. Take a left on Leonard and you will find yourself at Westlands Antiques for a shopping spree. As above head down Leonard St. but stop short of Great Eastern St. The shop is in an old church on the corner of Marks Square on your right hand side.
