London Safari

24/09/2024

Whilst wandering around the splendid Gothic Victoriana of Highgate cemetery you occasionally find a more modern grave in amongst the crumbling mausoleums of the 19th century. This one is special. This one is for an assassinated Russian spy.

Once you step closer you can read the name on the headstone. Alexander Litvinenko. “Sasha” to his family. Litvinenko had started his espionage career in the Soviet Union and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the KGB, staying in service after the collapse of communism when the KGB shed its skin to become the FSB.

In his role Litvinenko discovered disturbing evidence of the level of corruption within the new government leading all the way up to its leader, Vladimir Putin. Litvinenko exposed a catalogue of bribery, corruption, kleptocracy and political murder in a book. The Russian state confected counter-allegations against Sasha necessitating his defection to the West.

By 2006 Litvinenko was living in London with his wife and son. Such is the nature of the modern intelligence landscape he was still in contact with some of his former colleagues whilst simultaneously employed by Britain’s MI6. On one occasion he met two former FSB colleagues in what used to be known as the Millennium Hotel (now the Biltmore -see photo) on Grosvenor Square. He was offered green tea from a pot already on the table. He accepted a cup. The meeting broke up. Litvinenko went home blissfully unaware that he had just been murdered.

That night Litvinenko became violently ill. The tea had been contaminated with the highly radioactive isotope Palonium 210. In effect the radioactivity was cooking him from the inside out. He took three weeks to die. After his death a murder investigation was launched. Inevitably the Russian Federation obfuscated whilst alleging full cooperation. Warrants and applications for the extradition of the principle suspects were issued and ignored. A coroners court delivered a verdict of unlawful killing and cited the Russian premier as the probable instigator.

Now here he lies in the wooded tranquility of one of London’s first commercial cemeteries. The first person in a hundred years whose coffin was required to be lead lined… in order to block the radioactivity of his co**se!

London has stories buried deep in the ground waiting to be exhumed…

Would you like to know more?…

Upcoming tours :

Friday 27th September - The Square Mile.
Saturday 12th October - Guards, Palaces, Memorials & Murder - Belgravia
Saturday 19th October - Trains, Cats, Books & Spice Girls - Euston to St Pancras to King’s Cross
Wednesday 23rd October - Clubland of St James

NB: MORE DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your special London day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

17/09/2024

Hidden in the backstreets of St James is yet another of London’s apparently inexhaustible supply of small, discriminating but high end hotels. This one is a bit different though. This is St Ermine’s and it has an indelible connection with the ancient art of …spy craft.

It was here in 1940 that the latest of the secret services was born. The Special Operations Executive or S.O.E. In direct contrast to its more discreet elder brothers MI5 and MI6 or Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ), the SOE wasn’t into the business of covert intelligence gathering. Its task in Churchill’s words was “to set Europe ablaze”. Whilst the Allies were gathering the strength to return to the continent on D-Day, Churchill dictated that he wanted an army of saboteurs to clandestinely harry the German occupation forces wherever the sw****ka cast its shadow. To that end an army of unlikely volunteers were trained in all the dark arts of “Ungentlemanly Warfare”. Both men and women with language skills were taught how to shoot, blow things up, kill with their bare hands if they had to. St Ermine’s was their HQ. It was here that prospective candidates were brought to assess their suitability for this most dangerous of secret warfare.

St Ermine’s has a tiny cabinet museum to celebrate its heritage. These includes some of the disguised weapons that inspired another intelligence warrior, Ian Fleming when he wrote his James Bond novels.

This beautiful hotel hosted one last famous candidate to be interviewed for secret service. Kim Philby, the most successful Soviet double agent was recruited here to join MI6. The secret service that he almost rose to lead as its director.

London has dark stories in the most unlikely places. Even in the plush carpeted rooms of deluxe hotels.

Would you like to know more ?…

Upcoming tours :

Friday 27th September - The Square Mile.
Saturday 12th October - Guards, Palaces, Memorials & Murder - Belgravia
Saturday 19th October - Trains, Cats, Books & Spice Girls - Euston to St Pancras to King’s Cross
Wednesday 23rd October - Clubland of St James

NB: MORE DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your special London day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

05/09/2024

At the back of King’s Cross station in the recently refurbished Coal Drops Yard is the Lightroom. A purpose built venue to display the new phenomenon of wraparound visual experiences. I recently went to pander to a bit of nostalgia.

As a five year old boy I can remember being allowed to stay up and watch the Apollo 11 launch and moon landing on the new fangled colour TV my Dad had bought especially for the occasion. He wanted his children to witness this momentous event in glorious technicolour and sold an arm and a leg to get a TV set the size of a tumble dryer with a massive 20” screen to do so. It seemed to my young mind that thereafter there were three fixed points in the annual calendar - Christmas, my birthday and moon landings. I was wrong as the Apollo program only ever sent twelve men to the moon and the last happened only three years after the first.

This brilliant experience brought all those sensations flooding back. The excitement of the adventure. The power of the machines and the brilliance of the people who made it happen. The Moonwalkers show is the personal hobby horse of its sponsor and financial backer, the actor Tom Hanks. Many will remember Hanks played Jim Lovell, commander of the ill fated Apollo 13 mission in the film of that name. The mission that escaped disaster by the skin of its teeth and the ingenuity of those that saved the crew. His narration combined with so, so many iconic photographs and film footage brings alive that now half century old era when space exploration was the Brave New World.

Moonwalkers unique selling point is all the imagery is up in front of you in pin-sharp clarity and twenty feet high. You feel totally immersed in the memory of the event. The sheer thunderous power of the launch vehicle lifting off to the blessed relief of the splash down of the command module. It’s all here. Waiting for you to dive in.

London has memories that sometimes reach beyond our shores and then sometimes beyond our planet.

Would you like to know more ?…

Upcoming tours :

Friday 27th September - The Square Mile.
Saturday 12th October - Guards, Palaces, Memorials & Murder - Belgravia
Saturday 19th October - Trains, Cats, Books & Spice Girls - Euston to St Pancras to King’s Cross
Wednesday 23rd October - Clubland of St James

NB: MORE DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your special London day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

28/08/2024

Another BANKSY removed !

Another of the street artist Banksy’s series of animal themed murals has been taken away! This time it’s for safe keeping…and perhaps to avoid further embarrassment to its new owners ? If you recollect the last artwork by the mystery graffitist - of a howling wolf on a satellite dish - got swiftly swiped by enterprising art lovers within an hour of being spotted. Unsurprising when you consider that Banksy’s artwork is very collectible and can command high prices. I don’t quite understand how they intend to sell what is stolen property but perhaps they haven’t thought it through ?

So this latest piece - a police sentry kiosk made to look like a fish tank full of piranhas - could suffer the same fate. Doubly embarrassing for the City of London police who own it. Not only had police property been tampered with but it could then get nicked unless they intervened.

Hence the kiosk was uprooted and it now stands in the Guildhalls forum under its own protective cover. So it sits there with 24 hour security and smothered in cctv. A humble police kiosk now worth hundreds of thousands of pounds and owned and protected by the police service who have spent the last thirty years trying to arrest and prosecute the man who made it. Oh! The irony ! Banksy must be laughing his socks off!

London is riddled with stories to make you chuckle. Would you like to know more ?…

Upcoming dates:

Thursday 29th August - Naughty, Naughty Boho-Soho
Friday 27th September - The Square Mile.
Saturday 12th October - Guards, Palaces, Memorials & Murder - Belgravia
Saturday 19th October - Trains, Cats, Books & Spice Girls - Euston to St Pancras to King’s Cross
Wednesday 23rd October - Clubland of St James

NB: MORE DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your special London day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

19/08/2024

Next time you’re on the Wibbly-Wobbly Millenium Bridge you might spot a figure lying on the metal deck. It would be easy to dismiss this man as a vagrant. You’d be wrong. This is an artist at work. A very unusual one. This is Ben Wilson who has got to be the only artist whose medium is ….chewing gum !

Wilson noticed the ubiquitous presence of discarded gobs of chewing gum that pepper our pavements as an inexhaustible - if tiny - canvas for his work. Once you notice your first you realise that all the times you’ve walked over Millenium Bridge you’ve been treading on Wilson’s unique gallery of Lilliputian masterpieces.

The subjects are panoramic. Some are designs that just happen to fit the splodge of Wrigleys they rest on. Some are commissions to celebrate or commemorate people or an event. Some are just whatever pops into Wilson’s mind on the day he starts work.

He’s weathered rain, sleet and sunburn to bring us his work. He’s been arrested for obstruction until a certain degree of celebrity and a realisation he was doing no harm means he is unlikely to come to the attention of the authorities. If he does they normally give their tacit approval by leaving him be.

The thing is, once you know about his micro-masterpieces you can’t not notice them. It does tend to slow an otherwise brisk stride across the Thames once you surrender to the compulsion to start looking for them. Ooh! There’s another one !

Art is where you find it. Sometimes it’s framed in a grand gallery. Sometimes it’s right under your feet.

Would you like to know more ?…

Upcoming tours.

Tuesday 20th August-The Square Mile
Tuesday 27th August- Lawland - Temple to Holborn
Thursday 29th August - Naughty, Naughty Boho-Soho
Friday 27th September - The Square Mile.
Saturday 12th October - Guards, Palaces, Memorials & Murder - Belgravia
Saturday 19th October - Trains, Cats, Books & Spice Girls - Euston to St Pancras to King’s Cross
Wednesday 23rd October - Clubland of St James

NB:MORE DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your special London day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

13/08/2024

Been a busy few days in Taahn !

Upcoming tours.

Tuesday 20th August-The Square Mile
Tuesday 27th August- Lawland - Temple to Holborn
Thursday 29th August - Naughty, Naughty Boho-Soho

NB:MORE DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your special London day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

09/08/2024

07/08/2024

Statue to the boss-eyed champion of liberty !

Off Fleet Street, down Fetter Lane is another statue of a frock coated gent on a plinth. This one’s a bit different though. Look closely and you’ll notice this bronze statue … is cross eyed!

This is John Wilkes, eighteenth century politician, journalist, soldier and spectacularly ugly fully paid up member of the drinking and wh***ng society known as the Hellfire Club. As you can see his magnificently grotesque features made him something of a celebrity. He had a pronounced squint and a protruding lower jaw making him memorably repulsive. However, Wilkes also had the gift of the gab. A charming and celebrated wit he he was something of a success with the ladies. He is quoted as having said it “took him only half an hour to talk away his face".

But it was his championing of free speech that secured his place in history. It was also to almost prove his undoing. He supported the American revolutionaries and wrote pamphlets advocating the need for a Bill of Rights. This and a highly pornographic poem celebrating the life and work of the Earl of Sandwich’s mistress necessitated his fleeing London to France.

Despite this expulsion Wilkes was rehabilitated and eventually returned both to both Britain and parliament and then became Lord Mayor of London. Not bad for a man so gloriously disadvantaged in his looks.

London has statues to many people. Even, on occasion, the plug-ugly !

Would you like to know more ?

Upcoming tours:

Friday 9th August- Trains, Cats, Books and Spice Girls
Tuesday 20th August-The Square Mile
Tuesday 27th August- Lawland - Temple to Holborn
Thursday 29th August - Naughty, Naughty Boho-Soho

NB: MORE DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your very different day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

31/07/2024

“Here, sitting upon London-stone, I charge and command that … henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls me other than Lord Mortimer.”- Henry VI , William Shakespeare

Walking down Cannon Street and opposite to the station is a curious lump of limestone set in its own little alcove. This the London Stone. Certainly the only lump of sedimentary rock that was ever celebrated by the Bard. Here’s the thing. Yet again for a London landmark, nobody’s entirely certain … why ?

It is remarkably unremarkable. It has no carvings or markings, it isn’t a uniform shape. It’s not even particularly pretty. Yet this rock has managed to encapsulate the spirit of the City. Like the ravens in the Tower there is a legend that if the London Stone is lost then London will fall.

Depending on which legend you subscribe to the stone is supposed to have been set down by the Roman, Brutus as a foundation stone for Londinium. There is sketchy evidence for this. IN fact everything about the stone is pretty sketchy.

However, enough myth and legend has been generated around the London Stone that even property developers have known better than to tinker with fate and risk a catastrophe. So when the buildings get demolished and new ones rebuilt London Stone is given pride of place in whatever new building is being thrown up in the same spot that London Stone has been in through hundreds of years.

London has oddities that are so odd, nobody really understands them anymore.

Would you like to know more ?…

Upcoming tours:

Thursday 1st August - Wapping to Rotherhithe
Friday 9th August- Trains, Cats, Books and Spice Girls
Tuesday 20th August-The Square Mile
Tuesday 27th August- Lawland - Temple to Holborn
Thursday 29th August - Naughty, Naughty Boho-Soho

NB: MORE SUMMER DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your very different day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

22/07/2024

The memorial that killed.

Passing through Liverpool Street Station you can see a common sight in London train termini. A huge memorial board commemorating employees of the train company serving that station that had died in the First World War. If you look closer you will see a second plaque underneath commemorating the death of the man who unveiled it. The smaller plaque records that, astonishingly Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson was murdered two hours after he pulled the cord revealing the Roll of Honour.

Wilson’s attendance at the station on the 22nd June, 1922 was widely known. Consequently two IRA men knew the approximate time of his return to his Belgravia’s home. When he stepped down from his taxi outside No.36 Eaton Place, Reginald Dunne and Joe O’Sullivan rushed forward and repeatedly shot him. The predictability of his movements after the unveiling made targeting him relatively easy. Despite the fanciful illustration in a French magazine, Wilson didn’t try to defend himself with his sword and died on the stoop. This episode of Direct Action resulted in both assassins being swiftly cornered and captured by an angry crowd despite trying to shoot their way out. Hardly surprising as O’Sullivan was attempting to hobble away on an artificial leg, having lost his serving in the British Army (as both men had) on the Western front.

The IRA considered Wilson, as military commander of the Province, culpable for the internecine violence that had raged through Ireland during the civil war. O’Sullivan and Dunne were both tried, convicted and duly hanged less than two months after Wilson’s death. They went to the gallows either Murderers or Martyrs depending on your viewpoint. This must be the only memorial that has a companion piece commemorating the person who unveiled it dying so soon after.

London always has a story to tell. Sometimes even the commonplace has the power to intrigue with a story behind the story.

Would you like to know more?…

Upcoming tours:

Tuesday 30th July - NEW TOUR - Fleet Street - the Street of Shame
Thursday 1st August - Wapping to Rotherhithe
Friday 9th August- Trains, Cats, Books and Spice Girls
Tuesday 20th August-The Square Mile
Tuesday 27th August- Lawland - Temple to Holborn
Thursday 29th August - Naughty, Naughty Boho-Soho

NB: MORE SUMMER DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £35 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your very different day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

17/07/2024

On the south bank of the Thames near to Tower Bridge there is a rippled bronze line stretching from Tooley Street to the river bank. This is an artwork called “The Merchant Line”. It commemorates the long history of London as a port and the global products that flowed in and out of the Thames over the years.

It is just one of the many pieces of street art to be found in London. The Merchant Line replaces a previous artwork that turned out to be too dangerous to remain! Before the current art piece there was a similar one called “The Rill”. Using the old word for a small stream this artwork used the same groove to run a perpetual stream of actual water to remind us that the Thames relies on over twenty tributaries to feed into it.

Unfortunately The Rill was a victim of modern technology. Opened in 2002 The Rill had been in existence for a full five years before the advent of …the iPhone. As soon as smart phones became so ubiquitous The Rill started claiming its first victims. Scores of pedestrians started to trip and twist ankles because, of course now they weren’t looking up, they were doom scrolling on their new must-have accessory phones and didn’t see the trip hazard in their path.

By 2018 it was clear that The Rill had to go before someone got seriously hurt. Hence the new art work that filled in the trench with the bronze of The Merchant Line. No more Rill. No more tripping.

Shame really that such a charming and quirky art piece had to be discarded because of our addiction to our phones. Like the one you’re using now.

London has stories all over. Above our heads …and under our feet. If we’re not careful we might miss them altogether.

Would you like to know more ?…

Upcoming tours:

Friday 19th July - Trafalgar Square to Somerset House.
Friday 26th July-Clubland of St James
Tuesday 30th July - NEW TOUR - Fleet Street - the Street of Shame
Thursday 1st August - Wapping to Rotherhithe
Friday 9th August- Trains, Cats, Books and Spice Girls
Tuesday 20th August-The Square Mile
Tuesday 27th August- Lawland - Temple to Holborn
Thursday 29th August - Naughty, Naughty Boho-Soho

NB:MORE SUMMER DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £30 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your very different day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk

10/07/2024

“Oranges and lemons
Say the bells of St. Clement's
You owe me five farthings
Say the bells of St. Martin's
When will you pay me?
Say the bells of Old Bailey
When I grow rich
Say the bells of Shoreditch
And when will that be?
Say the bells of Stepney
Oh, I do not know
Say the great bells of Bow
Here comes a candle
To light you to bed
And here comes a chopper
To chop off your head”

Here is St Sepulchre church opposite the Old Bailey and the church bells in the old nursery ryhme. There is another bell that this church is famous for though. It is contained in a glass case near the altar. Its purpose was to sound a death knell for prisoners waiting to be executed.

To explain: The Central Criminal Court that we know as the Old Bailey that is opposite the church stands on the site of the notorious old Newgate gaol. If you ended up here then your outlook was pretty bleak. Difficult to imagine now but outside the splendid Edwardian palace to justice, just where the busy traffic over Holborn viaduct flows, the last public ex*****on in the UK took place.

Michael Barret, an Irish Republican was hanged for the notorious “Clerkenwell Outrage”. This was an attempt in 1868 to rescue Fenian prisoners from the Clerkenwell House of Corrections by blowing up the prison wall. Irish terrorism didn’t start with the IRA in the 1960’s. It already had a history in the Victorian era. The Metropolitan Police even started a unit specifically to combat it. What we know as Special Branch started out as the Special Irish Branch.

The attempt failed but twelve members of the public died. Barret was accused and convicted despite not being in London at the time. As was customary, the ex*****on of a criminal was a big public affair. It was a demonstration of the law in action and the atmosphere must have been a combination of bullfight and cup final day. Thousands of people clustered around the scaffold that stood between the courts and the (splendid) Viaduct Tavern. How relatively recent this was is demonstrated that many in the crowd travelled to see the spectacle using the newfangled Underground Railway or “Tube” as it later became known.

Despite probably being innocent Barret appears to have accepted his fate with equanimity. What probably didn’t make his last moments easier was the mocking hostility of the crowd. As Barret mounted the scaffold on the 26th May, 1868 the crowd sang “Rule Britannia!”. Then changing to a popular music hall ditty - “Champagne Charlie” as the trapdoor opened.

The ritual of ex*****on and the use of the condemned as a warning to others is not new. The bell we see in the glass case was taken out the night before ex*****ons and a gaoler employed to ring out a death knell peculiar to St Sepulchre’s. He was would ring the bell outside of the condemned cells at Newgate whilst singing:

“All you that in the condemned hole do lie, prepare you, for tomorrow you shall die.
Watch all, and pray, the hour is drawing near, that you before Almighty God will appear.
Examine well yourselves, in time repent, that you not to eternal flames be sent,
and when St Sepulchre’s bell tomorrow tolls, the Lord above have mercy on your souls.”

I tend to believe that this is less to do with appealing to unfortunates to repent of their sins. It sounds more like making your last few hours just a bit more cruelly unbearable. A bell? A song? It’s not as if you’re likely to forget you’re about to die is it ?

London has stories etched into its buildings. Etched into the ground where buildings used to stand.

Would you like to know more ?…

Upcoming tours.

Friday 12th July- Wapping to Rotherhithe.
Friday 19th July - Trafalgar Square to Somerset House.
Friday 26th July-Clubland of St James
Tuesday 30th July - NEW TOUR - Fleet Street - the Street of Shame
Thursday 1st August - Wapping to Rotherhithe
Friday 9th August- Trains, Cats, Books and Spice Girls
Tuesday 20th August-The Square Mile
Tuesday 27th August- Lawland - Temple to Holborn
Thursday 29th August - Naughty, Naughty Boho-Soho

NB:MORE SUMMER DATES TO FOLLOW SOON !

London Safari can also provide gift vouchers. So much better than socks for your difficult-to-buy-for friend or relative! (see last panel).

All tours are approximately five hours but usually less than a mile and a half in distance with plenty of opportunities to stop and refresh ourselves. Cost is £30 per person. Any extra costs are described in the Tours section of the website. All tours commence at 11am unless stated otherwise.

Perhaps you have a different date and a tour in mind for you and some friends? If so please contact me to discuss when and where you’d like to have your very special London day out.

www.londonsafari.org.uk