Rob Smith
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Rob is a member of Clerkenwell & Islington Guiding Association.
“Despite my 35 years in London” he says “I’m always amazed how you can find a new street that’s got an amazing story to tell. The thing I like best about London is how a tiny thing, like a decoration on a building can tell a big story. When you’re walking you are following in the footsteps of Londoners from the past, it makes the history come to life much more than just reading about it”
Rob is most interested in social history, and the way that inventions have changed people’s lives, but he always makes room in his walks to tell the stories of his London heroes.
Rob’s walks take him all over London, and beyond with a series of walks along the River Thames heading out East of London towards the Thames Estuary. You can also join him on day trips out of London to places like Rochester, Reading and St Albans.
He has written a book The Industrial History of the Lower River Lea based upon one of his tours.
He has worked on TV with The Hairy Bikers on The Pubs that Made Britain, featured in a film about Barking Power Station, and appeared on a programme about the East India Company for Iran International TV, featured in a documentary about the Great Smog on French TV and worked with ITN News reporter Sally Williams. Rob has appeared on the Radio 4 programme Screenshot with Mark Kermode and on History Hit Podcast with Dan Snow.
When not out walking, Rob also teaches London History courses at Morley College, South Thames College and Bishopsgate Institute.
His current Footprints of London walks and online virtual tours are:
Walking Tour – Six Islington Squares
Enjoy an afternoon looking at the domestic architecture of 19th century Islington. Enjoy an afterno...
Walking Tour – Mouth of the River – Thorpe Bay to Shoeburyness
A walk along the final part of the Essex side of the Thames Estuary, from the genteel Thorpe Bay to...
Virtual Tour – Down to Margate
Margate has been a popular seaside destination for Londoners since the 1700s when it had its own soc...
Walking Tour – London Destroyed
This walk looks at sci-fi and dystopian fiction in which London has been destroyed - either by flood...
Walking Tour – The Liberty of Romford
This walk around Romford celebrates the Liberty Line - the new name for the London Overground betwee...
Walking Tour – A Journal of the Plague Year
This walk follows the events of Daniel Defoe's classic account of the plague of 1665 This walk follo...
Walking Tour – Kenley’s Battle of Britain Heroes
Telling the stories of the men and women who served at RAF Kenley - the best preserved of London's B...
Walking Tour – Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad
Alexander Pope's 18th century satirical poem The Dunciad, highlights the stupidity and lack of taste...
Walking Tour – London’s Port History – Part 1 the Roman and Medieval Port
The first of four walks telling the story of the Port of London. The walk starts with the Romans wal...
Virtual Tour – Exploring Roman London
Find out what you can see of Roman London on this virtual tourWhile the remains of Roman London migh...