Choose a Walk – Original Version
Local walks
Wed 10 Apr 6:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Explore the mean streets of Clerkenwell that were run by the gangster Sabini - a real person portrayed by Noah Taylor in the TV series Peaky Blinders
Fri 12 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Richard Watkins
Description: Plotting remains of the Crystal Palace High Level line: station sites, arches, tunnel portals, the track bed and other great features.
Sat 13 Apr 11:00 am
Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Discover modernist home and flats in Hampstead built in the 1930s along with striking examples of other 20th-century architecture and more traditional striking buildings to contrast them with.
Sat 20 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Stories of love, crime, bravery and friendship from Clerkenwell's Italian Community 1820-1950
Thu 25 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Stories of love, crime, bravery and friendship from Clerkenwell's Italian Community 1820-1950
Sun 28 Apr 1:00 pm
Your guide: Daniella King
Description: Famous the world over with its association with the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, Putney and Fulham offers so much more in the way of history which very few people know much about.
Sat 18 May 1:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk along the Stour Estuary in Essex, looking at the links with Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, Mistley Quay a site of shipbuilding in the 18th century, and remains of a Robert Adams church.
Sat 25 May 10:30 am
Your guide: Michael Duncan
Description: Mayfair: inspiration to Fleming and Le Carre. Home to real life traitors, defectors. A walk where fact meets fiction.
Sat 21 Dec 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk looking at how Christmas was celebrated between 1840-70 with readings from the Islington local newspapers of the time. What was on at Collins Music Hall? What did the Boot Black Brigade have for Christmas dinner? And what was Christmas in the workhouse like?