Join Elena on a guided WALK IN BLOOMSBURY followed by a visit to the newly re-opened NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. PLEASE NOTE THIS WILL BE A 4 HOUR EVENT (including a refreshment break). This walk will celebrate the incredible women who made Bloomsbury a hub of creativity and empowerment. Starting at Russell Square tube, we will […]
Join Elena on a guided WALK IN BLOOMSBURY followed by a visit to the newly re-opened NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. PLEASE NOTE THIS WILL BE A 4 HOUR EVENT (including a refreshment break). This walk will celebrate the incredible women who made Bloomsbury a hub of creativity and empowerment. Starting at Russell Square tube, we will […]
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 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 […]
Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn, on the north-western edge of the City. A medieval bishop's palace (you can […]
Be it ever so humble there's no place like home Join Ellika, qualified Camden Tour Guide as she explores the streets covering the foothils of Hampstead Heath and the often groundbreaking styles of domestic architecture that can be found there. Learn how the architecture influenced the lives of the residents and how the residents impacted […]
Discover Camden Town with Elena, a resident of 30+ years. It's lively, it's quirky, it's cosmopolitan and it's packed full of history! Camden Town is all of these things. It's a neighbourhood that has been shaped by many communities, from the Irish to the Greek-Cypriots, each leaving an indelible mark. Charles Dickens, a very unhappy […]
This FREE walk is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning about becoming a qualified Camden Tour Guide, offering an opportunity to meet existing Camden Guides, go with them on a tour around the King's Cross area and have a chance to talk to them about the course and what it's like to be […]
Free-spirited and independent, educated and uninterested in marriage and children, the figure of the New Woman threatened conventional ideas about ideal Victorian womanhood. On this walk we will discover how Kate Greenaway, a female artist from a working class background, Eleanor Marx, a regular at the British Library Reading Room and the archeologist Mary Brodrick […]
Now it's trendy and pretty, but 18th-century Seven Dials was notorious for poverty and crime. With no organised police force, thieves, highwaymen and fences bribed those hired to catch them, meeting in low-down dives where they spoke a secret language called flash. The notoriously corrupt Jonathan Wild captured thief Jack Sheppard more than once, but […]
Fitzrovia is an area to savour and where better to spend a Spring Sunday afternoon than exploring its elegant squares, Georgian streets and cosmopolitan feel? See some truly outstanding architecture from the 18th, 19th, 20th and even 21st centuries. Walk through secret pocket parks. Hear stories of the diverse communities that have lived and worked […]
Some of the most interesting areas around the City of London are places lived in and worked in by people who were not based inside it but needed to be near it. A great example is the area just north of Holborn, on the north-western edge of the City. A medieval bishop's palace (you can […]