• Exploring Hampstead’s Northern Slopes
    Exploring Hampstead’s Northern Slopes
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    Discover the Wyldes of Hampstead – walking across Hampstead Heath Extension, through North End , the Hill Garden and Golders Hill Park Discover the beautiful rural north side of Hampstead and the border with the borough of Barnet by walking across the Heath Extension to the hamlet of North End, learning about its famous residents,…

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  • Walking Tour – Covent Garden: A Magnet for Artists and Artistic Practice
    Walking Tour – Covent Garden: A Magnet for Artists and Artistic Practice
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    Discover how Covent Garden became as a centre for art, socializing, learning and the production of art Discover the forgotten history of Covent Garden when it was the centre for artistic life. From the development of the Plazza in the 1630s , artists started following their patrons to this new fashionable square to live. Stuart…

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  • Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
    Walking Tour – Modernist Hampstead
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    In this walking tour we'll discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards . Discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s such as The Sun House by Maxwell Fry, and 66 Frognal by Connell Ward and Lucas. Much of the architecture…

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  • Walking Tour – Lamp-lit Hampstead
    Walking Tour – Lamp-lit Hampstead
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    Discover the history rich network of alleys and lanes in old Hampstead Village illuminated by lamps and Christmas lights Discover the mysterious atmosphere to Hampstead on a tour after-dark where the streets are lit by old-fashioned lamps. We will wind through the narrow back streets and catch glimpses of its fascinating history from the glow…

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  • Walking Tour – Horrific Hampstead
    Walking Tour – Horrific Hampstead
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    Discover horrible things that happened in idyllic Hampstead including stories of hangings, highwaymen, murders and fatal accidents Walking through Hampstead, this walk concludes at Hampstead Heath Station on the Mildmay Overground Line Did you know that the last two women to be hanged in Britain committed murders in Hampstead? We may think of Hampstead as…

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  • Walking Tour – Arts and Crafts of Hampstead Garden Suburb
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    Discover Henrietta Barnett's vision for a Garden Suburb for all classes in the early development of Hampstead Garden Suburb Hampstead Garden Suburb was the idea of Henrietta Barnett, the wife of Cannon Barnett, the vicar of St Jude’s Whitechapel where they both experienced extreme poverty, overcrowding and the affects of alcohol on the lives of…

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  • Walking Tour – Reach for the sky: trading and business in the City
    Walking Tour – Reach for the sky: trading and business in the City
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    Discover how the commercial identity of the City of London has changed with the times to Roman Forums, livery halls to sky scrapers. The City of London, contained within the Roman walls that largely existed until the 17th century, developed its own commercial identity along its tight-knit medieval pattern of narrow streets and alleyways. Walking…

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  • Walking Tour – Diverse London – City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants
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    Walking across the City, we discover the stories behind the people and sculptures of public art by immigrants and refugees The City of London has always been home to immigrant communities. This walks winds its way through the City streets and highlights immigrants who made a mark here in a literal way as it is…

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