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We are a collective of four fully qualified Tour Guides offering historical and cultural London walks for the incurably curious: whether you are a tourist or a local, on our walks you will always discover something new about this wonderful city!

19/05/2024

A curious sight at Paternoster Square yesterday. The gorilla is part of ‘Wild about Babies’ a collection of bronze baby animals roaming the square. It’s the latest brainchild of artistic duo to draw attention and funds to the conservation of engendered animals.

15/05/2024

An empty , not a sight you see every day. Early morning private view of the Life of a Legionary exhibition. What a treat.

08/05/2024

Talking elephants, giraffes and pineapples with the in Kentish Town last night.

26/01/2024

Morning visit to the spectacular in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. An architectural tour de force. The candle-lit soirées in the Monk’s Parlour must have been really something.

24/01/2024

Not bad for a bathroom! Thank you for organising a reciprocal visit to Eltham Palace today for their volunteers. It was utterly fascinating!

18/01/2024

St George’s Gardens this afternoon, no filter needed. Looking the very picture of tranquillity today, in 1715 it was one of the first cemeteries (some say the first one) to be built away from a church in London. Unpopular at first due to the increased risk of body snatching, it became overpopulated like all inner London graveyards and was transformed into an ‘outdoor sitting room for the poor’ by the philanthropic Kyrle Society in 1885. There are lots of haunting stories to be unearthed here, so why not join our guided walk of the gardens on the 3rd and 15th February? Booking link in bio.

29/12/2023

A guided tour of the splendid Theatre Royal Drury Lane in Covent Garden to round off the year! It is a really spectacular place after a £60 million facelift. Did you know that it is the world’s oldest theatre site in continuous use? And the only theatre with two Royal boxes? George III didn’t get on with his son, the wayward Prince Regent, so to avoid confrontation they had two different entrances and sides of the theatre.

24/12/2023

Thanks for joining us on our walks this year! We look forward to many more jaunts through the streets of London in 2024. Have a very merry Christmas!

22/12/2023

Nero the lion is the most beautiful beast in the urban jungle of Highgate Cemetery. He belonged to Victorian menagerist George Wombwell and guards his owner’s final resting place.

21/12/2023

Kew Gardens Christmas lights. Just wonderful.

11/12/2023

Striking geometries of the King’s Cross gas holders. This is gas holder no. 8, a delightful pocket park.

28/11/2023

Covent Garden is looking extremely festive. Those Jingle Bells are enormous! Come and see for yourselves and learn a few fun facts about Christmas on our Covent Garden Extravaganza walk next Tuesday, 5th December. Details in bio.

08/11/2023

Among the many treasures and oddities I discovered yesterday in St Bartholomew the Great Church in Smithfield, there was this gravestone. Mr Jonathan Thornell was obviously very wealthy and very proud of his profession as hair merchant. Wigs were very much in vogue during the Georgian era and remained fashionable until the introduction of the hair powder tax at the end of the 18th century, an ingenious way for the government of the day to replenish the empty coffers.

Thanks for organising the visit.

04/11/2023

Suffrage powerhouse Millicent Fawcett, a longtime Bloomsbury resident, looking at the Houses of Parliament since 2018. She is the first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square by the brilliant British artist Gillian Wearing.

10/04/2023

Join us on a walk on The Dark Side of the Bloom on Sunday April 30th.

If there is any truth in the theory that certain places can be charged with the energy, personalities and violent emotions of those who have lived and died there, then Bloomsbury and Holborn have an abundance of locations where the barriers between the past and the present, the living and the dead, are just a little thinner than elsewhere.

Join us in walking these shadowy streets, and hear the stories of haunted hospitals, uncanny universities and scandalous societies, all located amongst the elegant Georgian terraces of Bloomsbury. We will uncover long forgotten ghost stations and atmospheric pubs, before moving on through the leafy, lugubrious squares of Holborn.

For more info and tickets, go to link in bio.

02/04/2023

Spring has sprung on the facade of the Granary Building in King’s Cross (just ignore the moody sky…). These three colourful draperies are part of the installation Fabulae Naturae by Lucy Orta, drawing attention to the wonder of wildlife and the loss of species our planet faces. You can see it until April 29th.

22/03/2023

Seekout London is seeking out the beauty of Siena this week. This sight never ceases to amaze, even after 700 years… Looming over Piazza del Campo, world-famous for the Palio horse race, the Torre del Mangia is the third tallest ancient tower in Italy.

16/03/2023

What a fabulous night. Standing on the shoulders of giants.

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