• Crystal Palace: Walking the Historic High Level Railway
    Crystal Palace: Walking the Historic High Level Railway
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    Plotting remains of the Crystal Palace High Level line: station sites, arches, tunnel portals, the track bed and other great features. When the Crystal Palace exhibition site opened in June 1854 it was served by one railway line to a station half way down the hill carrying thousands of visitors a day… But another private…

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  • Walking Tour – A Dreadful Bow of Flame: The Great Fire of London
    Walking Tour – A Dreadful Bow of Flame: The Great Fire of London
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    We trace the course of the Great Fire and the events of those 3 -4 days and attempt to see through the smoke of the myths surrounding it. In September 1666 a great conflagration swept through the City of London. It destroyed over 13,000 houses, making nearly 100,000 homeless. It ripped through the buildings that…

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  • Walking Tour – The Devil to the Old King: Pubs on and around Fleet Street
    Walking Tour – The Devil to the Old King: Pubs on and around Fleet Street
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    We find some of London's legendary pubs, finest pub buildings, with stories of great writers, disgraced courtiers and misleading pub names. Fleet Street is one of London’s most famous thoroughfares. And it contains some of London’s most legendary pubs. They have served as the watering holes of journalists, lawyers, tourists, intellectual and artistic types and…

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  • Walking Tour – London’s Ragged and Reformers
    Walking Tour – London’s Ragged and Reformers
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    The underbelly of Victorian London seen through a graveyard, workhouse, Ragged school and more in the attractive area of Marylebone. . London in the nineteenth century became the largest city in the world and the centre of the greatest empire in history. However, not everyone shared the glory! Richard’s walk uncovers the underbelly of Victorian…

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  • Walking Tour – The Devil to the Old King: Pubs on and around Fleet Street
    Walking Tour – The Devil to the Old King: Pubs on and around Fleet Street
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    We find some of London's legendary pubs, finest pub buildings, with stories of great writers, disgraced courtiers and misleading pub names. Fleet Street is one of London’s most famous thoroughfares. And it contains some of London’s most legendary pubs. They have served as the watering holes of journalists, lawyers, tourists, intellectual and artistic types and…

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  • Walking Tour – 1966: The Year of Swinging London
    Walking Tour – 1966: The Year of Swinging London
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    A Tour featuring the music clubs, fashion shops, galleries and protest sites of Swinging London. It was 1966 and London was exploding with new, young, cutting edge movements in music, fashion, film and photography. America’s Time magazine called London “the Swinging City”! To cap it all there were the joyous events in July on a…

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