Emma's London Tours

23/03/2024

Lock & Co, the oldest hat shop in the world.

16/03/2024

Lovely film about Ealing :)

In this splendid walk around Ealing in west London Joolz and Simon discover many interesting and fun locations and facts with some laughs along the way. ****...

15/03/2024

This is a very humorous and quite accurate insight into how we Brits think and behave!

16/11/2023

16/10/2023

05/10/2023

05/10/2023

On this day in 1940 a bomb struck the Tower of London.

On this day in 1940 a bomb struck the Tower of London, blowing apart the North Bastion and narrowly missing the White Tower. Tragically, there were two fatalities, YW Reeves and Lily Francess Lunn.

This was one of a number of times when the Tower of London was bombed during the Second World War. 🏰

© Historic Royal Palaces/The Yeoman Warder Archive

27/08/2023

It's supposed to be like that.

25/04/2023

18/04/2023

I have at home an album of press cuttings relating to the career of my Grandmother, Leopoldine Avico (Nicholson) and her sisters who were successful London artist models.

I particularly like this cutting as it explains 'the mystery' as to why they were all models; taken from the 'Daily News' newspaper 'Occasionally an artist finds a perfect figure, face, or foot....I have found a whole colony of perfection, both male & female. You can shape the head of Adonis from the males, and Aphrodite from the maidens. They live in Tottenham Court, London. First there are the Avico sisters (and brother Victor, 14), Leopoldine aged 16, Gilda 16 and Marietta 17. Their father was Italian and himself gave artist sittings in Italy. A statue of Leopoldine a girl with perfect figure and features will be displayed at Wembley'

31/03/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMrB_3wq2ak

Vintage British kid's TV, from a time when there were only 3 channels to chose from!

Beloved British children's television presenter John Noakes scales the iconic statue in Trafalgar Square for Blue Peter. That's a hair-raising climb of almos...

16/03/2023

When war broke out in August 1914, and again in September 1939, women across the United Kingdom played a pivotal role in the war effort, taking on jobs that we previously seen as the preserve of men...

26/02/2023

London's sole remaining galleried inn, The George on Borough High Street. London SE1. Now owned and protected by The National Trust.
(Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, Ian A Biddell.)

24/02/2023

23/02/2023

Not sure what to do in London this weekend? From restaurants to experiences, there's plenty of inspiration in our guide of things to do.

26/01/2023

⚔️ Clash of the tigers 🐯 In 1830, a terrible fight occurred in the Tower menagerie when a lion, tiger and tigress were accidentally let into the same cage 🙊 Keepers managed to separate the animals but the fight unfortunately ended up deadly...

📷 Sculptures by Kendra Haste

23/01/2023