Tours

We add new tours almost daily. Our talented and qualified guides provide a variety of tours that cover a wide range of subjects. You can also choose your own date and time for any of the tours you see on our website by booking it as a private tour.

 

Specialist walks

Walking Tour - In Vincent's Footsteps: from Covent Garden to Stockwell
Sat 27 Apr 11:00 am
Your guide: Stephen Benton
Description: Follow the route Vincent Van Gogh might have taken when he walked from his work in Covent Garden to his lodgings in Stockwell in the 1870s
Walking Tour - The Pattern of Human Existence: London’s Livery Companies
Fri 3 May 2:30 pm
Your guide: Richard Watkins
Description: Taking in some of the great Companies, showing their all-encompassing past impact and continued relevance with some superb Hall buildings.
Walking Tour - Czech Shoes and Mucking Flats - the Thames at East Tilbury
Sat 4 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Tenth in a series of walks along the Thames, this walk looks at the Bauhaus inspired Bata shoe factory built in the 1930s with a surrounding village for workers. The walk then passes Coalhouse Fort for a walk along an isolated part of the Thames to Mucking Flats, where you'll see many birds along the foreshore.
Virtual Tour - Hounslow's Best Buildings
Wed 8 May 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A look at the best buildings in London Borough of Hounslow, including Osterley House, Syon House and Chiswick House as well as some impressive industrial buildings and modern business parks. Part of a series looking at the best buildings in each London Borough
Walking Tour - The Pattern of Human Existence: London’s Livery Companies
Mon 13 May 6:00 pm
Your guide: Richard Watkins
Description: Taking in some of the great Companies, showing their all-encompassing past impact and continued relevance with some superb Hall buildings.
Rebels and Blue Stockings: The New Women in Bloomsbury
Sun 19 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: Oonagh Gay
Description: New women of 19th century campaigned for education and autonomy
Walking Tour - The City of London's Forgotten Transformation
Tue 21 May 6:00 pm
Your guide: Richard Watkins
Description: Telling the story of how the City was transformed in Victorian times through great buildings, plaques, statuary, historic roads and vistas.
Walking Tour - Secrets and Spies
Fri 24 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: David Charnick
Description: Lift the lid on MI5, MI6, SO12 and the SOE on a stroll through the Intelligence community!
Walking Tour - In Vincent's Footsteps: from Covent Garden to Stockwell
Sat 25 May 11:00 am
Your guide: Stephen Benton
Description: Follow the route Vincent Van Gogh might have taken when he walked from his work in Covent Garden to his lodgings in Stockwell in the 1870s
Virtual Tour - Brent's Best Buildings
Sun 26 May 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A look at the best buildings in London Borough of Brent including the domestic buildings of Metroland, old churches and Wembley Stadium. Part of a series looking at the best buildings in each London Borough
Walking Tour - Uncovering Woolwich Dockyard
Tue 28 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Exploring old dry docks, store houses and chimneys that made up the Royal Navy's Woolwich Dockyard
Virtual Tour - Passengers No More: lost and forgotten railways of London
Tue 28 May 7:00 pm
Your guide: Stephen Benton
Description: There are a surprising number of closed railway lines and stations in London. Join Stephen to explore some of London's lost and forgotten railways.
Virtual Tour - Barking and Dagenham's Best Buildings
Sun 2 Jun 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Part of a series looking at the best buildings in each London Borough. Barking and Dagenham is home to the ruins of medieval Barking Abbey, historic Valence House and beautiful Eastbury Manor House and lots of other interesting buildings too.
Virtual Tour - Churches, Castles and Country Towns - a Lincolnshire Journey
Sun 9 Jun 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A virtual staycation in one of England's largest counties. From the splendour of Lincoln Cathedral to the rolling hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds, visiting historic castles and pretty market towns on the way, you'll see why Lincolnshire is such a great place to visit
Virtual Tour - Joseph Bazalgette - London's Great Engineer
Sun 23 Jun 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: London owes so much to Joseph Bazalgette - the sewer system, bridges, roads. Hear about his projects and where you can find them in this virtual tour
Walking Tour - Exploring the Solar System in Otford
Tue 25 Jun 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: The pretty village of Otford in Kent is home to a mind blowing model of the solar system set out around the village. Come and walk the country footpaths on the way to Pluto, and see some historic medieval buildings on the way
Walking Tour - The  Lost Railway of Haringey: Finsbury Park to Ally Pally
Sat 20 Jul 2:00 pm
Your guide: Stephen Benton
Description: Join Stephen to follow the route of the old railway line from Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace which last saw passenger trains in July 1954
Virtual Tour - Castles Around London
Sun 29 Sep 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: This Virtual Tour hosted on Zoom is about Castles that you can visit that are a short journey from London. Some still have substantial remains, some are more like bumps in the ground, but all have a story attached. Rob will talk about the sieges, the royal residents and treacherous deeds that took place in them.
Walking Tour - Industrial History of Dagenham Dock
Mon 30 Sep 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Sixth in a series of walks East along the Thames, this walk looks at the industrial area of Dagenham Dock. Home to London's first aircraft factory, the Ford works and a fertiliser plant, the area is now being transformed into Barking Riverside. The walk ends at the lost village of Creekmouth.
Virtual Tour - John Singer Sargent's People
Sun 6 Oct 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A virtual tour about some of the people the artist John Singer Sargent painted - including, poets, generals, actresses, writers, politicians and womens suffrage campaigners
Virtual Tour - Christmas in Georgian London
Thu 5 Dec 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Christmas tradidions evolve in Georgian London - masked balls, twelth cake and celebrations on St Nicholas Day
Virtual Tour - A Victorian Christmas in Islington
Thu 19 Dec 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Readings from the local newspapers of the 1870s illustrate how Christmas was reinvented by the Victorians. Hear about Christmas in islington from wealthy shoppers to Christmas Day in the workhouse
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