Camden and Somers Town
The story of one of London’s most diverse areas. This walk is designed to celebrate the story of how Camden has a long history of welcoming communities from all over the world including Greeks, Bengalis, Irish, Somalis, refugees from the French Revolution and political exiles from South Africa.
Explore Historic St Giles
The Changing Face of an Ancient Rookery. In the shadow of the great modern structures of Centre Point and Central St Giles lies an ancient and notorious district with a long history. St Giles has hosted a leper colony, Elizabethan market gardens, a densely packed and verminous rookery which shocked the Victorians and is now undergoing a transformation with the arrival of Crossrail…
Fitzrovia
Academics, Medics and Bohemians. We will see universities and hospitals and one of the most beautiful squares in London. We will visit the first Family Planning Clinic in London. We will discover the site of the wild and riotous Gooseberry Fair of Tottenham Court Road.
Gray’s Inn to St Pancras
Along the Valley of the Fleet. This walk takes in parts of London’s ancient legal quarter as well as some remarkable Victorian social housing schemes. We follow the course of the River Fleet where some of the city’s worst rookeries grew up and past the site of one of London’s most notorious jails.
Hampstead Village
See London’s most beautiful village. Hampstead is London’s archetypal village containing a wonderful array of Georgian, Victorian and modern architecture. Hear how Hampstead grew into a retreat that has attracted artists, writers and intellectuals over the centuries. It has steep winding streets and the most breathable air in London…
Hatton Garden
Diamond Street. London’s jewellery quarter is also set in one of the city’s most historic areas containing ancient Inns of Chancery and a couple of magnificent medieval churches. We also visit a pub that traces its origins back to the reign of Edward VI….
King’s Cross
Transformation and Re-invention Come and see the extraordinary transformation that has taken place at King’s Cross. King’s Cross is now one of the largest and most exciting developments in Europe. See how this area has been re-invented…
Primrose Hill
From Roundhouse to Winehouse. Primrose Hill is a London village with a distinct character with a mixed literary, political and industrial heritage and an extremely affluent modern character. It offers by far the most inspiring view of London It has a beautiful high street in Regent’s Park Road with many lovely, independent shops…
The Foundling Museum
The Fight for Children’s Rights since 1739. The Foundling Museum explores the history of the Foundling Hospital, the UK’s first children’s charity and first public art gallery…
The Story of London through Portraiture
The National Portrait Gallery is Britain’s great hall of fame where you can look at the great and the good and the not so good of our history…
Covent Garden Tour
Formerly an orchard and kitchen garden for the monks of Westminster Abbey 400 years ago Covent Garden became London’s first and most fashionable suburb. It was and remains a centre for artistic, musical and theatrical brilliance but also saw a decline into a time when sex workers – flash mollishers, spells and bawds ruled the roost alongside the booming fruit and vegetable market…
Discover St Luke’s
Explore St Luke’s, one of London’s most historic but less known areas. See the headquarters of England’s oldest regiment…
Historic Pentonville
Elegant city squares, circuses, coaching inns, chapels, theatres, pleasure gardens, spas, riots, revolutionaries, clowns and the New River. Pentonville has them all. Come and see how this fascinating part of London changed and developed…
London’s Secret Waterway – King’s Cross to the Zoo
On this walk you will start at the impressive new developments around King’s Cross and St Pancras. You will see magnificent monuments to Victorian enterprise and engineering in the beautifully restored and revived Granary Building now the home to London’s thriving University of the Arts…
Regent’s Canal – Angel to King’s Cross
At any time of the year the quiet waters of the Regent’s Canal in Islington make a beautiful and calming setting for an urban walk. Throughout this stroll we walk along or beside the canal. We visit Chapel Market – one of London’s most vibrant city markets…
London’s Secret Waterway: The Regent’s Canal from Paddington to the Zoo
In this tranquil stroll along the quiet waterways of the Regent’s Canal you will catch glimpses of London’s industrial and trading past at the Paddington Basin as well as taking in the charming gardens and elegant Victorian villas of Little Venice and Nash’s grand plans for Regent’s Park…
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Marvellous Marylebone – Individuals, Institutions and Inspiration
Marvellous Marylebone: Individuals, Institutions and Inspiration is a walk in which you will encounter some extraordinary individuals ranging from Sherlock Holmes to Joseph Lister, Charles Dickens and John Nash who lived and worked in this imposing district of London…
Soho – London’s Most Diverse Quarter
Soho attracts visitors from all over the world for its unique mixture of seediness and glamour. It is irreverent and attention seeking and a place for relaxing and the best venue in London for people watching…
Caledonian Road and Barnsbury
We will start by looking at the old Metropolitan Cattle Market with its huge market tower. We will hear sad stories of death row at Pentonville Prison and then look at a series of fine and elegant Victorian garden squares – Thornhill, Barnsbury, Cloudesley and Lonsdale before hearing about the days of the workhouse and the fever hospital…
The Clerkenwell Tour
Gin, bear-baiting, prisons, highwaymen, crusaders, rookeries, hangings, goldsmiths, clockmakers, monks, nuns, martyrs. Clerkenwell has seen them all. We visit London’s oldest suburb and are introduced to the many layers of history hidden in the streets of Clerkenwell…
The Historic Highbury Tour
The walk begins at the beautiful terraces of Highbury Fields where we learn about some of its famous residents. We will pass by the site of Highbury Manor and the old Arsenal Stadium and look down on the home of one of London’s greatest football clubs…
The Smithfield Tour
Braveheart, peasant rebels, grave-snatchers, martyrs, plague pits, hangings, London’s raunchiest and most outrageous fairground and her most ancient hospital. Smithfield gives us a vivid glimpse of the sufferings and pleasures of old London…
Walk Regents Park
Regent’s Park is regarded by many as London’s most beautiful park. Surrounded by the glinting classical terraces constructed for the Prince Regent by John Nash and Decimus Burton it is also home to some glorious and world famous gardens and a charming landscaped lake…