These walks take place rain or shine!
There is no need to book ahead. Simply turn up at the appointed time and meeting
place, and pay your guide at the start of the walk.
Friday
19 June at 2.00 pm:
Lost Churches
– Rediscovering the Vanished City of London
Before 1666 there were well over a hundred churches in the City of London.
Fire, war and municipal vandalism have contributed to the disappearance
of many of them. But, they haven't vanished entirely: you can still see them
if you know where to look.
This walk lasts about 2.5 hours stopping in 'ye olde pub' along the way.
Meet: Courtyard in front of the Church of St Mary Aldermary, Bow Lane.
Nearest Underground Station: Mansion House, Exit 4 (Bow Lane).
Cost: £7 per person
Saturday
11 July at 11.00 am:
Samuel Pepys' City
– A Leisurely Stroll Through Restoration London
Samuel Pepys was a respected naval administrator and a trusted servant of
the Crown. But most of us don't remember him for that. We remember him for
the secret diary in which he recorded his candid and uncensored opinions of
people he met and the events he witnessed. His first-hand accounts of the
plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666 still bring 17th-century London
vividly to life.
This walk lasts about 2.5 hours with a convivial coffee break along the way.
Meet: Tower Hill, by the statue of the Emperor Trajan.
Nearest Underground Station: Tower Hill.
Cost: £7 per person
Fridays
10 & 24 July, 11 & 18 September
from 12.15 pm:
Guildhall Art Gallery
– Free Highlights Tour
FREE Highlights Tours of the City's art collection and the Roman amphitheatre.
Tours start at quarter past the hour throughout the afternoon and take
about 45 minutes. Last tour at 3.15pm.
Meet: Inside the Gallery.
Nearest Underground Station: St Pauls or Bank
I also guide walks for clubs, societies and special interest groups. Recent bookings have included:
Harlots, Harridans and Heroines –
Disorderly Women in the City of London
Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA)
The Bloody Awful Pub Walk
On Hallowe'en for the Early Modern Society, University of London
Paved With Gold – In the
Footsteps of Dick Whittington
Central London Branch of the Historical Association
Highbrows & Lowlifes –
Bohemian Bloomsbury
London School of Economics and Politics (LSE)
The Jubilee Walkway – Tower
of London to Covent Garden
For the Mayor of London's Walk London initiative – January 2009;
May 2009
Inns and Taverns of Olde London –
A Fleet Street Afternoon Pub Walk
The Friends of the City Churches
Doctor Johnson's City – Georgian
London
A photographic walk for Sutton Camera Club
The Guildhall Art Gallery –
The City of London's Best Kept Secret
The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers
Insider's London –
The City and Bankside
Children's Wish Foundation
The Story of Smithfield –
Markets, Martyrs and Monks
City of London Visitors' Information Office at St Paul's Cathedral
Shakespeare's London –
The Elizabethan City
The Friends of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
If you are interested
in booking a walk for your group please contact me to discuss possibilities.
