Marilyn Greene

marilyn jan 2016

I am a qualified City of London Guide, a member of the City of London Guides Lecturers Association and an Associate of the Institute of Tourist Guiding.

A lifelong Hampstead Garden Suburb resident, I started guiding at the Modernist National Trust property, 2 Willow Road on its opening day in 1996.  Formerly the Curator of Hampstead Museum, Burgh House, I have been creating and delivering walks in the Hampstead area for more than 15 years.

I love discovering interesting nuggets of London history and am fascinated in how places develop and change as well as what lies beneath the ground. I am especially interested in artists and their connections with places and the stories of individual buildings.

As well as guiding in the City and Hampstead area, I also guide for the City Lit, London Transport Museum’s Hidden London programme and give tours at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Walks vary from 1.5 hours to 2.5 hours and can be tailored for different ages and requirements

City of London Walks

Rescued, Revealed Restored: The Blitz and Preserving History

Gardens of the Blitz

Keeping up with the tides: the Thames and its changing history

The Great Fire of London

Hampstead area walks

Alleys and Lanes of Hampstead

Modernist Hampstead

Constable’s Hampstead

Hampstead and the Slade School of Art

Pioneers of Modern Art

Hampstead in the First World War

Henrietta’s Dream: Arts and Crafts in Hampstead Garden Suburb

From streamline to arts and crafts: inter-war architecture in Hampstead Garden Suburb

A Walk through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living

Contact:

Twitter: @marilyngreene10

Marilyn Greene (guide details)

Walking Tour -  Reach for the sky: trading and business in the City

Sun 12 May 2:00 pm

Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Weave through the history of business and trading in the City of London from Roman, Medieval, 17th century and more modern times. We will also learn of the 1990s bombing attempts to destroy the financial infrastructure and we will se how building for business architecture reflects changing times.

Walking Tour - Diverse London - Art and Refugees in Hampstead

Sat 18 May 1:30 pm

Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Discover how Hampstead’s war-time artistic scene supported and helped save refugee artists from Nazi Europe enabling them to come to live safely in London

Walking Tour - Mews, Monuments and Museums

Fri 24 May 11:00 am

Walking Tour - A Walk Through Conservation Finchley

Fri 7 Jun 2:30 pm

Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Discover Finchley’s conservation areas. Church End has been settled in since the 13th century and we see the Church and Victorian and Edwardian architecture and continue to Finchley Garden Village. Passing the Dollis Valley we view College Farm and conclude beside the striking La Deliverance statue.

Walking Tour - Diverse London - City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants

Sun 23 Jun 1:30 pm

Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Walking across the City, we discover the stories behind the people and sculptures of public art made by immigrants and refugees from the 17th to 20th century.

Walking Tour - Horrific Hampstead

Fri 6 Sep 2:30 pm

Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Over the centuries Hampstead and Hampstead Heath have has witnessed many dramatic and horrifying events. From highway men and hangings, to murders, executions and fatal accidents, this walk explores some of the stories of people involved in horrible happenings in Hampstead .

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