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Wed 8 May 11:00 am
Your guide: David Charnick
Description: Explore the impact of WW2 on Bethnal Green: from both bombers and planners!
Thu 9 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: David Charnick
Description: Come explore William Cubitt’s groundbreaking development on the Isle of Dogs!
Sat 11 May 11:00 am
Your guide: Michael Duncan
Description: Take a walk round Mayfair, London’s most opulent district, to discover some of the world’s best hotels – their history, and their famous guests.
Sat 11 May 1:30 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Following the River Lea on its journey through Hertfordshire, including the pretty estate at Brockett Hall
Sun 12 May 1:30 pm
Your guide: Sue McCarthy
Description: Roughly following the line of the Greenwich Meridian this riverside walk traces the industrial heritage of the lower Lea Valley from fine porcelain, through gasworks, gin, cosmetics and explosives to film studios and sculpture along London’s first dedicated modern and contemporary art walk.
Sun 12 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk from Peckham to Elephant and Castle winding our way around London’s famous cheapest property on the board
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.
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.
Sat 18 May 1:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk along the Stour Estuary in Essex, looking at the links with Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, Mistley Quay a site of shipbuilding in the 18th century, and remains of a Robert Adams church.
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
Sun 19 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: Oonagh Gay
Description: New women of 19th century campaigned for education and autonomy
Mon 20 May 2:30 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A tour about things underground – crypts, vaults, cellars and of course the London Underground
Tue 21 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: David Charnick
Description: Cross some boundaries and explore the interface between the City and the East End by going In and Out of the Aldgate!
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.
Thu 23 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: David Charnick
Description: Join me in an exploration of the secret world that uncovers stories of spy rings, assassination attempts, and other covert activities!
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!
Sat 25 May 10:30 am
Your guide: Michael Duncan
Description: Mayfair: inspiration to Fleming and Le Carre. Home to real life traitors, defectors. A walk where fact meets fiction.
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
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
Wed 29 May 5:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A food history of Islington from the dairy farms of Medieval London to Italian ice cream parlours
Wed 5 Jun 5:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk about some of the many people who featured in the paintings of John Singer Sargent, visiting places they lived and worked
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.
Mon 10 Jun 11:00 am
Tue 11 Jun 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk through the West End looking at the lives of some of the people painted by the artist Thomas Gainsborough. You can see some of the paintings in the National Gallery – but who were the people in the paintings? And how did they fit into the complex world of Georgian politics and society.
Sat 15 Jun 11:00 am
Your guide: Stephen Benton
Description: Come and explore the route of a forgotten railway line which used to run from Merton Park to Tooting
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.
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
Mon 8 Jul 2:30 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A tour about things underground – crypts, vaults, cellars and of course the London Underground
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
Sat 27 Jul 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
Tue 30 Jul 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk around the Garden City that was built as a response to the ideas of social reformer Ebenezer Howard, and was a forerunner of many other schemes like Hampstead Garden Suburb
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 .
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.
Sat 5 Oct 11:00 am
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk around what was once a huge military base, looking at the remaining historic buildings. The walk ends near the Chatham Historic Dockyard Museum
Sat 21 Dec 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk looking at how Christmas was celebrated between 1840-70 with readings from the Islington local newspapers of the time. What was on at Collins Music Hall? What did the Boot Black Brigade have for Christmas dinner? And what was Christmas in the workhouse like?
