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.

 
Virtual Tour - Francisco de Miranda - A Revolutionary in London
Thu 28 Mar 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Francisco de Miranda spent all his life dreaming of a revolution in South America, but he spent a lot of his life in London. Hear the story of his attempts to set up a democratic republic that always seem to end up in London
Walking Tour - Dorothy L Sayers Bloomsbury
Fri 29 Mar 11:00 am
Your guide: Sue McCarthy
Description: A walk through the Bloomsbury exploring where novelist Dorothy L Sayers lived, worked and took inspiration for her detective fiction.
Walking Tour - Dorothy L Sayers Bloomsbury
Sat 30 Mar 2:00 pm
Your guide: Sue McCarthy
Description: A walk through the Bloomsbury exploring where novelist Dorothy L Sayers lived, worked and took inspiration for her detective fiction.
Walking Tour - Walking The River Lea Part One - Starting at the Source
Sat 30 Mar 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: First in a series of walks along the River Lea. Starting at the source of the River you'll visit stone age Waulud's Bank, a moated farmhouse and a Victorian mansion as the Lea wends its way through meadows in North Luton
Walking Tour - The Heights of Dickens
Sun 31 Mar 2:00 pm
Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Follow in Charles Dickens’ footsteps in a walk from Highgate to the hamlet of North End on the border with Hampstead and Hampstead Garden Suburb. We will discover places he stayed, buildings he was familiar with and aquaintences he made.
Walking Tour - The Real West End. Off the Beaten Track in Covent Garden
Mon 1 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Joanna Moncrieff
Description: On Easter Monday explore the lesser known parts of Covent Garden with City of Westminster Guide Joanna Moncrieff
Walking Tour - Between Two Bars: Strolling along F
Sat 6 Apr 2:30 pm
Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Walking between Temple Bar monument and the original Temple Bar, will learn of the history of the area, survey the great variety of architectural styles dating from the 17th century onwards and discover signs, reliefs and sculptures which add to the buildings' stories.
Virtual Tour  - Exploring Roman London
Mon 8 Apr 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: See where you can find Roman remains on this Virtual Tour that tells the story of Londinium
Walking Tour - Circling the Triangle: Continued History of Crystal Palace
Tue 9 Apr 6:00 pm
Your guide: Richard Watkins
Description: Tracing the social history of this elevated area from an historic wood to fashionable commercial and cultural district.
Walking Tour - The Real London of Peaky Blinders
Wed 10 Apr 6:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Explore the mean streets of Clerkenwell that were run by the gangster Sabini - a real person portrayed by Noah Taylor in the TV series Peaky Blinders 
Walking Tour - Crystal Palace: Walking the Historic High Level Railway
Fri 12 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Richard Watkins
Description: Plotting remains of the Crystal Palace High Level line: station sites, arches, tunnel portals, the track bed and other great features.
Walking Tour - Modernist Hampstead
Sat 13 Apr 11:00 am
Your guide: Marilyn Greene
Description: Discover modernist home and flats in Hampstead built in the 1930s along with striking examples of other 20th-century architecture and more traditional striking buildings to contrast them with.
Walking Tour - Walking The River Lea Part Two - Into Hertfordshire
Sat 13 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Continuing a series of walks along the River Lea this one starts at Luton Airport and ends in the Hertfordshire town of Harpenden
Walking Tour - Off the Beaten Track in Fitzrovia
Sun 14 Apr 2:00 pm
Walking Tour - Peter Daubeny's World of Theatre
Tue 16 Apr 11:00 am
Your guide: David Charnick
Description: This is a celebration of Peter Daubeny’s achievement in bringing international performance to the post-War British stage. It is illustrated with readings from Daubeny's 1971 book of reminiscences 'My World of Theatre'.
Virtual Tour - Peter Daubeny's World of Theatre
Tue 16 Apr 9:00 pm
Your guide: David Charnick
Description: This is a celebration of Peter Daubeny’s achievement in bringing international performance to the post-War British stage. It is illustrated with readings from Daubeny's 1971 book of reminiscences 'My World of Theatre'.
Virtual Tour - Hackney's Best Buildings
Wed 17 Apr 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Part of a series on the best buildings in each London borough. Hackney has historic churches, fine Georgian Houses, examples of 20th century civic pride and modern regeneration.
Virtual Tour - Hertfordshire - Countryside on London's Border
Thu 18 Apr 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Hertfordshire is one of England's smaller counties, but it has lots to see, and all within easy reach of London. This virtual tour will give you inspiration for country walks in bluebell woods, and old pubs near ancient churches.
Walking Tour - Mayfair's Bright Young Things
Fri 19 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Jen Pedler
Description: A literary romp round Mayfair; the playground of the Bright Young Things in the 1920s. On this walk you will hear how their outrageous exploits were portrayed by writers of the era.
Walking Tour -  Style and Scandal in St James's
Fri 19 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Michael Duncan
Description: Scandal and intrigue have always been lurking in this most stylish part of London. Courtiers, courtesans, poets and politicians have been driven by ambition, lust and the need for attention to get ahead. In this walk we'll meet those who succeeded as well as those who failed.
Walking Tour - Il Quartiere - Tales From Italian Clerkenwell
Sat 20 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Stories of love, crime, bravery and friendship from Clerkenwell's Italian Community 1820-1950
Walking Tour - Mary Wollstonecraft and Newington Green
Sat 20 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Oonagh Gay
Description: Explore radical history of Newington Green
Walking Tour - Bread, Milk, Fish and Gold: Cheapside's Great Market
Tue 23 Apr 6:00 pm
Your guide: Richard Watkins
Description: A canter through the historic market of Cheapside, featuring medieval riots, fabulous processions and as a centre of luxury goods.
Walking Tour - Dickens around the Strand
Wed 24 Apr 2:00 pm
Walking Tour - Il Quartiere - Tales From Italian Clerkenwell
Thu 25 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Stories of love, crime, bravery and friendship from Clerkenwell's Italian Community 1820-1950
Walking Tour - Beneath London's Streets
Fri 26 Apr 2:30 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A tour about things underground - crypts, vaults, cellars and of course the London Underground
Walking Tour -  The Haves and Have-nots of Marylebone
Sat 27 Apr 10:30 am
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 River Lea Part Three - To The Camp of the Catuvellauni
Sat 27 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk following the River Lea through Hertfordshire, visiting the site where Julius Caesar is claimed to have fought an epic battle against the Catuvellauni
Walking Tour - Putney & Fulham : More just than a Boat Race!
Sun 28 Apr 1:00 pm
Your guide: Daniella King
Description: Famous the world over with its association with the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, Putney and Fulham offers so much more in the way of history which very few people know much about.
Walking Tour - Historic Hanwell
Fri 3 May 2:00 pm
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 - Along The River Lea
Thu 9 May 8:00 pm
Walking Tour -  London's  Luxury Hotels
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.
Walking Tour - The River Lea Part Four - Brocket Hall and Welwyn
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
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.
Virtual Tour - Treasures of the Isle of Wight
Wed 15 May 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A virtual tour around the diamond shaped island that has everything from Roman mosaics to rare telephone boxes. You'll see why the Isle of Wight is a favorite place for Rob, and some of the less well known places on the island to visit
Walking Tour -  Essex Estuaries - The Stour from Manningtree to Mistley
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.
Walking Tour - Beneath London's Streets
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
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 - James Bond and the Spies of Mayfair
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.
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
Walking Tour - The River Lea Part Five - Hertford to Ware
Sat 25 May 2:00 pm
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
Walking Tour - Secret Writing
Tue 28 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: David Charnick
Description: A literary celebration of the world of spies, moles and agents with site-specific readings!
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.
Walking Tour - The Heights of London - Croydon
Mon 3 Jun 2:00 pm
Walking Tour - Waterloo in Fiction
Wed 5 Jun 6:00 pm
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
Walking Tour - Wandsworth Industrial History
Mon 10 Jun 11:00 am
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 Heights of London - Greenwich
Mon 1 Jul 2:00 pm
Virtual Tour - First Flights Over London
Sun 22 Sep 8:00 pm
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.
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
Walking Tour - What's behind the South Bank?
Sun 15 Dec 2:00 pm
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
Walking Tour - A Victorian Christmas in Islington
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?
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