We took some time out one weekend and headed into town to visit the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Borough Market. I thought it might be a good idea for the three of us to spend some quality time together near where Jamie’s new job is and where he is thinking of moving to. But it seems that wandering around a food market and looking at scary bone-saws or specimens in jars is not everybody’s cup of tea. We had a tasty, though expensive, meal in the fish restaurant and an abortive look at the stalls before we had a quick look at the oldest operating theatre in the country that used to be part of the nearby Guys Hospital. It consists of a small semicircular demonstration area surrounded by steeply raked viewing platforms. Under the knife marked table sits a box of sawdust that was designed to be kicked around to capture the blood that drained from the semiconscious patient above. It is an odd museum built in the loft space of what was originally a church and the displays are quite random and unusual with what appears to be hand written notes explaining some of the exhibits.
We didn’t linger and returned home soon after.
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