A historic walk winding either side of the border between Camden and Islington boroughs – also the route of the now-buried River Fleet ‘Beating the Bounds’ around the borders between parishes, land ownerships and similar is an ancient tradition, where the boundary was literally paced out and marked with stones each year. This walk traces […]
Join Elena on a tour of a secret urban cemetery. Step into the historic and atmospheric St. George's Gardens in Bloomsbury, the first Anglican burial ground to be created away from a church in London. Thanks to the efforts of Victorian philanthropists it was transformed into an "outdoor sitting room for the poor" in the […]
A visit around the recently regenerated railway lands. The walk consists of some very interesting ‘firsts’, a lot are transport based, but also about the contrast in the life styles of the inhabitants. The area has recently undergone a massive transformation and is very much a ‘destination’ with so many new companies moving into the […]
You probably know Hampstead as a very attractive area of very posh houses and very famous people. But why is it so lovely to walk around? It's a lot to do with a hill which prevented major roads and any railways being built: so uniquely in London it preserves a Georgian village streetscape. It also […]
Primrose Hill is now one of London's desirable areas, but it was born with the blood, sweat and toil that built the canal and railways.The neighbourhood radiates brilliant industrial solutions of Victorian engineers, but who built it? This walk puts hard-working navvies at the centre of the story and tells how the area developed in […]
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Charlotte Mew, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf all drew inspiration from walking alone in London; observing and enjoying street life. Woolf called it "street haunting". The sights and sounds of London run through their novels, stories, essays and poetry. On this two hour walk through the streets […]
Join Elena on a guided walk in the footsteps of Hampstead's inspiring women. To celebrate Women's History Month we move North to the quaint and historic neighbourhood of Hampstead. On this meandering walk through cobbled streets and winding alleyways, up and down the hills of Hampstead, we will discover the lives of remarkable and inspiring […]
Follow in the footsteps of the female trailblazers at the forefront of medical history For Women's History Month we are celebrating a bunch of determined women who, overcoming huge hurdles, excelled in the male-dominated world of medicine, smashing multiple glass ceilings along the way. From the 18th century onwards Bloomsbury was central to medical progress, […]
You will probably know lots of bits of the St Giles' area: Tottenham Court Rd tube, Centrepoint, Shaftesbury Ave, Seven Dials...but you probably don't know how the area came to be as it is. A fascinating story of ancient roadways meeting, a medieval leper colony, a failed posh residential district, a notorious Victorian slum and […]
You probably know Hampstead as a very attractive area of very posh houses and very famous people. But why is it so lovely to walk around? It's a lot to do with a hill which prevented major roads and any railways being built: so uniquely in London it preserves a Georgian village streetscape. It also […]
Conrad's The Secret Agent cast a critical eye over London at the end of the nineteenth century when the capital was home to a series of revolutionary anarchist groups. They had come to police attention following royal pressure after the assassination of the Tsar of Russia. The Secret Agent, Verloc, in Conrad's novel is a […]
Join Mike Marriott's walk for a look around the "new" King's Cross. The area formerly used for goods yards behind King's Cross station has now been transformed. Come and see how on this walk! 200 years ago King's Cross was a rather desolate place, marked by brick kilns, rubbish heaps and slums. The arrival of […]