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| Date & Time | Walk | Guide | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16/05/2012 11:00 | Dickens in Clerkenwell | Jenni Bowley | Follow Oliver Twist, visit the site of Fagin's Den, and hear about the "rookeries", see the location of Dickens' first marital home and many of the alleys and streets that appear in his novels |
| 17/05/2012 19:00 | An Evening Stroll in Regents Park and Primrose Hill | Rob Smith | Take a stroll exploring the features and history of the Park, and ending on Primrose Hill for a spectacular view of London |
| 19/05/2012 10:30 | The Magnificent City of London | Pete Batty | Hear about the cat that won a medal, the great plague and the fire, Wren, Shakespeare and Dickens |
| 19/05/2012 11:00 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Joanna Fox-Johnson | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
| 19/05/2012 13:30 | The Magnificent City of London | Pete Batty | Hear about the cat that won a medal, the great plague and the fire, Wren, Shakespeare and Dickens |
| 19/05/2012 14:00 | Shakespeare in the City | Neil Sinclair | Act 3 - Follow Shakespeare and his King's Men acting company as they transfer across the river to the wealthy City. |
| 20/05/2012 14:00 | Diamond Jubilee Walk - 60 years on the throne | Elaine Wein | Hear about the Queen, see the places associated with her reign, and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations |
| 24/05/2012 19:00 | Islington - London's Larder | Rob Smith | A walk through 800 years of Islington's food history |
| 26/05/2012 10:30 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Roberta Ardern | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
| 26/05/2012 11:00 | Covent Garden: A History of the Entertainment Centre of London | Mick Rodway | Explores Covent Garden, see secret alleys and discover fascinating people associated with this fun area of London |
| 26/05/2012 14:30 | Shakespeare in the City | Dianne Hally | Act 3 - Follow Shakespeare and his King's Men acting company as they transfer across the river to the wealthy City. |
| 27/05/2012 11:00 | 2000 years of Medicine in the City of London | Jenni Bowley | Healing the sick or making them worse ... learn about the early medics in London and find out about barbers and surgeons. |
| 31/05/2012 19:00 | Up The Cally | Rob Smith | Caledonian Road is far from Londons tourist trail but Rob Smith will introduce you to a host of curiosities |
| 02/06/2012 11:00 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Joanna Fox-Johnson | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
| 02/06/2012 13:00 | Legal London - Visiting the Inns of Court | Geoffrey Smyth | A leisurely stroll around The Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn with a lawyer who has spent most of his working life in this area. |
| 02/06/2012 14:30 | Dickens - Novelist and Social Reformer | Dianne Hally | A walk through the City of London visiting sites which provided inspiration for Dickens' many characters and plots within his novels. |
| 09/06/2012 10:30 | Shakespeare in Shoreditch | David Brown | Act 1 - The ruff guide to Shakespeare's early life in edgy Elizabethan Shoreditch. See where he lived & worked |
| 09/06/2012 13:30 | The Story of Spitalfields: Huguenots to Vintage Clothes | Adrian Clarke | Explore the rich history of this area, see how it has been influenced by immigration, and industry. Also looks at many of the old buildings in this vibrant area. |
| 09/06/2012 14:30 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Joanna Fox-Johnson | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
| 14/06/2012 19:00 | The Makers of Modern London | Rob Smith | Find out about the great people who were behind the development of ModernLondon in this walk around historic Clerkenwell |
| 15/06/2012 11:00 | The Medieval City of London | Jenni Bowley | Find out what life was life in London in the Middle Ages, exploring the great institutions of Medieval life including Churches and Livery Halls. |
| 16/06/2012 10:30 | Shakespeare in the City | Dianne Hally | Act 3 - Follow Shakespeare and his King's Men acting company as they transfer across the river to the wealthy City. |
| 16/06/2012 10:30 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Toni Jaskel | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
| 19/06/2012 11:00 | Walk in Wesley's footsteps | Jenni Bowley | The founder of the Methodist movement was a man of boundless energy - see where he went to school, was converted, lived, worked and died. |
| 21/06/2012 19:00 | A Midsummer Evening Stroll in Regents Park and Primrose Hill | Rob Smith | Take a stroll exploring the features and history of the Park, and ending on Primrose Hill for a spectacular view of London |
| 23/06/2012 10:30 | Shakespeare in Shoreditch | Ray Blackburn | Act 1 - The ruff guide to Shakespeare's early life in edgy Elizabethan Shoreditch. See where he lived & worked |
| 23/06/2012 10:30 | Shakespeare in the City | Anne Tickell | Act 3 - Follow Shakespeare and his King's Men acting company as they transfer across the river to the wealthy City. |
| 23/06/2012 13:00 | Legal London - Visiting the Inns of Court | Geoffrey Smyth | A leisurely stroll around The Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn with a lawyer who has spent most of his working life in this area. |
| 23/06/2012 14:30 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Joanna Fox-Johnson | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
| 28/06/2012 14:00 | Diamond Jubilee Walk - 60 years on the throne | Elaine Wein | Hear about the Queen, see the places associated with her reign, and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations |
| 30/06/2012 11:00 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Sean Gay | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
| 30/06/2012 11:00 | Walk in Wesley's footsteps | Jenni Bowley | The founder of the Methodist movement was a man of boundless energy - see where he went to school, was converted, lived, worked and died. |
| 05/07/2012 19:00 | All Change at Kings Cross | Rob Smith | The Beatles, Frankenstein and Thomas Hardy all feature in this exploration of the past, present and exciting future of the Kings Cross area. |
| 07/07/2012 11:00 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Sean Gay | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
| 08/07/2012 11:00 | Up The Cally | Rob Smith | Caledonian Road is far from Londons tourist trail but Rob Smith will introduce you to a host of curiosities |
| 14/07/2012 11:00 | Shakespeare on Bankside | Sean Gay | Act 2 - The Bard at his peak in Elizabethan London's notorious red light district with coaching inns, bear-bating pits, theatres and brothels. |
Footprints of London is a new development in guided walks. It offers a fresh and vibrant series of tours researched and delivered by enthusiastic, talented, independent and qualified guides. We’re a little different to other operations in that all our walks are only bookable through the internet. This enables us to limit numbers, so you will never join a group with too many people – enabling us to navigate some of the lesser known byways in our travels.
Our guides offer a wide range of tours, covering special themes allowing you to enjoy the less visited areas of London. We also visit the major tourist areas typically offering walks with a different twist to those that are more widely available.
Our new walks include one exploring beautiful Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill, and a new walk The Magnificent City of London that explores some of the great stories in the City, as well as another walk that explores the often gruesome history of Medicine in the City of London. And we’re introducing a new walk that looks at Legal London – specifically the Inns of Court. Finally we’re also launching a new walk looking at the Diamond Jubilee.
We also offer new runs of popular walks – including Islington London’s Larder, The Makers of Modern London, Lights Camera, The Story of Spitalfields, Action – On Location in Greenwich, Convent Garden Entertainment, and All Change at Kings Cross.
We offer a great set linked walks that explore Shakespeare’s life in London in a broadly chronological order (although each walk can be done out of sequence) in Shoreditch, Bankside and the City of London. There is at least one walk in this series every Saturday morning, and we’re also doing some most Saturday afternoons. Do each walk and you will visit the sites associated with Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theatre.
And we are also offering walks that looks at a less visited areas of London – at the moment Walk in Wesley’s footsteps through Finsbury and Clerkenwell, or visit the Caledonian Road in Up the Cally, or fascinating Blackwall.
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