Barbara's London Tours

24/06/2024

Exciting time yesterday morning at the Changing of the Guards Buckingham Palace - troops just coming out of St James's Palace on to the Mall.Spot the Japanese flag for the arrival of the Emperor of Japan in the UK,

21/05/2023

The Royal Opera House is one of the pauses - rests ?! on my Composers of the West End Walk Saturday 27th May - read more about the Opera House and the growth of British Opera - on my blog https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/tag/operettas/ - wal starts 11am - tickets here https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guided-walks/ - see you there ?

17/02/2023

Composers of the West End Composers of the West End - are you a music buff, or the teensy bit interested in musicals or classical composers or just want to explore the hidden areas around the Strand and Covent Garden ?- walk -11am Saturday 25th February - book here https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk

13/02/2023

see my website at https://www.barbarastours.com/ - and contact me on [email protected]

13/02/2023

Sometimes the winter is the best time for a walk! - the January Garden Village of Pimlico walk finishing at Tachbrook Street market.

26/01/2023

Typewriter dress at the Design Museum yesterday. 'Objects of Desire' Surrealism 1924 - Today. Some great original objects, especially chairs purses,telephones and sofas!

17/01/2023

Walk Saturday 21st January starts 11 am ' The Garden Village of Pimlico - finishing at scrumptious Tachbrook Street market for lunch and other shopping - buy a ticket here https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/

29/12/2022

Great Christmas show 'Wind in the Wilton's

28/11/2022

Outside the Strand Place Hotel on my Composers of the West End walk - fund raiser - it is on again next Saturday 3rd December 11am with London Guided Walks - tickets here https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/
Also see my blog about Exeter Hall music venue which the Strand Palace Hotel replaced. https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/before-the-strand-palace-hotel/

14/11/2022

Composers of the West End fundraising tour for St Mary le Strand finishing with a look round St Mary le Strand Friday 18th November 11am- tickets here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/west-end-composers-tickets-443005781217

08/11/2022

Royal St James's The Road to Westminster part 1 - in early October - outside the Athenaeum Waterloo Place.

08/11/2022

London Open House two weeks on my Pimlico walk in September - really sunny then !!

08/11/2022

Walk Saturday - the Garden Village of Pimlico - enjoying the the rain that makes it green! Tachbrook Street by the market.

30/10/2022

Come to atmospheric Pimlico on my Garden Village of Pimlico walk 11 am next Saturday 5th November, finishing at Tachbrook Street market, just before lunch. With London Guided Walks https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/

03/10/2022

Come on my Settling in Soho Walk at the best time ever early on a Sunday - get tickets for next Sunday 9th October 10.30 am with London Guided Walks https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/settling-in-soho/

31/08/2022

Find out about the people and places behind the music in this musical and entertainment centre of London -the Strand and Covent Garden.Come on my Composers of the West End Tour this coming Saturday 3rd September at 11am https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/west-end-composers/

30/08/2022

Next Saturday 3rd September at 11am:
What foreign born composer upstaged this local boy (Henry Purcell) born in Westminster?
Find out this and more on this fascinating West End Composers walking tour walking tour https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/west-end-composers/
With London Guided Walks https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/

18/08/2022

Don't miss a great walk on Saturday at 3 pm- the Garden Village of Pimlico - book here https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/garden-village-pimlico/

14/08/2022

Did you know that St George's Square Pimlico leads down to the Thames and until 1874 had its own pier for steamers and boats?Find out more on the Garden Village of Pimlico walk Saturday 20th August 3 pm with London Guided Walks https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/garden-village-pimlico/
Contact me at [email protected] for more info on my tours.

12/08/2022

Out and about from London on Tuesday The funicular at Hastings 1066 country.

01/08/2022

Out and about near Mam Tor Edale the Peak District,

28/07/2022

Visiting London Art. Surrealism at the Tate Modern today

10/07/2022

did you know that the Savoy chapel off the Strand was mentioned in the novel Brideshead Revisited.? There are fascinating insights about the chapel and other stops on the West End Classical Composers walking tour Saturday 16th July
3 pm.With London Guided Walks
https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/classical-composers/

10/07/2022

Out and about away from London enjoying the river at Oxford

04/07/2022

Walk Saturday The Garden Village of https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/garden-village-pimlico/ 3pm

23/06/2022

Spring Classical Composers walk - enjoyed by all - on again this Saturday 25th June 11am https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/classical-composers/

23/06/2022

Classical composers of the West End walk next Saturday 25th June 11am https://londonguidedwalks.co.uk/guidedwalk/classical-composers/

12/06/2022

Visit Tachbrook Market before or after the Garden village of Pimlico next Saturday 18th June 3pm

12/06/2022

3 pm walk the Garden Village of Pimlico Saturday 18th June!

19/05/2022

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tale-of-two-cities-belgravia-tour-tickets-296865291077
Walk Saturday 21st May 3 pm

Tale of Two Cities - Second walk: Belgravia - the planned residential neighbourhood between palace and Westminster