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Footprints of London Footprints of London provides unusual and interesting walks across London, and online virtual tours a

Footprints of London started out as a group of guides who were studying at the University of Westminster. We all loved working together so decided to set up Footprints of London. We felt that the existing London walking tours, while good, only covered a small part of London's amazing history - there was so much more to talk about. Footprints of London has grown, with more guides joining, however t

he idea remains the same. All our guides talk about a subject that they are passionate about. The walks are researched and written by the guides themselves and all the guides really love sharing their enthusiasms with people who come on the walks. See http://footprintsoflondon.com for the latest list of walks. You can read our reviews here https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d3742632-Reviews-Footprints_of_London-London_England.html

The site of the Polygon, an area of housing popular with refugees from the French Revolution, and the final London home ...
27/01/2025

The site of the Polygon, an area of housing popular with refugees from the French Revolution, and the final London home of Mary Wollstonecraft

Navvies built the canals and railways, moving from site to site in gangs. Great moral concern arose, ranging from horror...
21/01/2025

Navvies built the canals and railways, moving from site to site in gangs. Great moral concern arose, ranging from horror at their debauchery to adulation of their strength. Hear about their way of living as we view the Hill, Regent's Canal, railway machinery and houses built for workers.

Primrose Hill is now one of London's desirable areas, but it was born with the blood, sweat and toil that built canals and railways.

Big Splash, one of the Brixton Murals made by Christine Thomas in 1985
18/01/2025

Big Splash, one of the Brixton Murals made by Christine Thomas in 1985

The City from 120 Fenchurch Street
17/01/2025

The City from 120 Fenchurch Street

Winter in Regents Park. The lake was originally created by damming the River Tyburn
16/01/2025

Winter in Regents Park. The lake was originally created by damming the River Tyburn

The Blessing of the Thames ceremony leaving Southwark Cathedral
13/01/2025

The Blessing of the Thames ceremony leaving Southwark Cathedral

News of our walks and virtual tours in January
05/01/2025

News of our walks and virtual tours in January

Walks and Virtual tours to help you explore London

An historical walk of the 20th century means sites of struggle both gay and black, multicultural street art and food, CL...
04/12/2024

An historical walk of the 20th century means sites of struggle both gay and black, multicultural street art and food, CLR James, poetry, Claudia Jones, African fabrics and David Bowie. See it all in Brixton 15 Dec.

From WWII Brixton is a centre for black Britons as well as South London fairies, squatters, poets, Latin American migrant entrepreneurs

Footprints of London Walks in December - https://mailchi.mp/c7acccd1847f/g3q269ptwv-9162024
01/12/2024

Footprints of London Walks in December - https://mailchi.mp/c7acccd1847f/g3q269ptwv-9162024

Your guides to London Footprints of London is a London guided tours company with a difference; we're owned by our guides, all our guides are qualified and accredited and all our guided walks are researched and written by the guides leading them. Guided tours by and for those who love London delivere...

With the screening of the first TV episode of The Mirror and the Light, the final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hal...
16/11/2024

With the screening of the first TV episode of The Mirror and the Light, the final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, interest in all things Tudor is reaching fever pitch. The BBC has scoured the country to find suitably sumptuous locations to form an appropriate backdrop to the epic storytelling and larger than life characters. But there are numerous London locations linked to the key characters and events and of the age to be discovered – if you know where to look…...

With the screening of the first TV episode of The Mirror and the Light, the final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, interest in all things Tudor is reaching fever pitch. The BBC has scoured the country to find suitably sumptuous locations to form an appropriate backdrop to the epic ...

11/11/2024

History of two girls condemned for theft in Goswell Road, jailed in Newgate, spared death and sent on a convict ship to Australia. And then?

Poor girls who shoplifted were routinely sentenced to death, but when hanging became too expensive the sentence began to...
10/11/2024

Poor girls who shoplifted were routinely sentenced to death, but when hanging became too expensive the sentence began to be changed to Transportation. First to other colonies then from 1821 to Botany Bay Terra Australis. Story of 2 London girls.

History of two girls condemned for theft in Goswell Road, jailed in Newgate, spared death and sent on a convict ship to Australia. And then?

"Such foolswe are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven onlyknows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, ...
30/10/2024

"Such foolswe are, she thought, crossing Victoria
Street. For Heaven onlyknows why one loves it
so, how one sees it so, making it up,building it
round one, tumbling it, creating it every
momentafresh; but the veriest frumps, the most
dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink
their downfall) do the same; can't bedealt with,
she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that
very reason: they love life" Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway.

Picture of Victoria Street from when the book was written. I'll be following the route Mrs Dalloway takes in the book, talking about 1920s London and the book on my walk on Friday.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour-mrs-dalloways-day-tickets-1034311171557

Footprints of London Walks in November - https://mailchi.mp/c77594a036eb/g3q269ptwv-9161549
27/10/2024

Footprints of London Walks in November - https://mailchi.mp/c77594a036eb/g3q269ptwv-9161549

Your guides to London Footprints of London is a London guided tours company with a difference; we're owned by our guides, all our guides are qualified and accredited and all our guided walks are researched and written by the guides leading them. Guided tours by and for those who love London delivere...

Illustrated London News drawing of St Peter's Italian Church which opened in 1863 to serve the growing population of Ita...
26/10/2024

Illustrated London News drawing of St Peter's Italian Church which opened in 1863 to serve the growing population of Italian people who had settled in Saffron Hill. The church has a statue of a different saint in each alcove - each representing a city in Northern Italy so hopefully everyone felt at home in the church. I'll be telling the story of this community in my walk on Friday https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1004332324017

Thanks to Londonist and Matt Brown for listing my Saturday's migrations walk that shows the overlaps and similarities in...
14/10/2024

Thanks to Londonist and Matt Brown for listing my Saturday's migrations walk that shows the overlaps and similarities in different groups' travels to work in London. Holborn backstreets nice and empty on weekends. Cittee of York at the end. Booking link in comment.

Londoners mostly avoid Essex -- prejudice against it is heavily entrenched. A good consequence of this is the scarcity o...
30/09/2024

Londoners mostly avoid Essex -- prejudice against it is heavily entrenched. A good consequence of this is the scarcity of other walkers! Rochford, less than an hour's journey from Liverpool Street Station, has a good-looking townscape, craggy-wild and beautiful marsh and river plus it was the Hotbed of Protestantism! Creative rebels abound. 12 Oct: 2 guides, me and Rob Smith.

Gorgeous marsh landscape, old houses and bloody Tudor history in Rochford, a hotbed of Nonconformism now only an hour from London.

Footprints of London Walks in October - https://mailchi.mp/8d5a9548f85b/g3q269ptwv-6425600
28/09/2024

Footprints of London Walks in October - https://mailchi.mp/8d5a9548f85b/g3q269ptwv-6425600

Your guides to London Footprints of London is a London guided tours company with a difference; we're owned by our guides, all our guides are qualified and accredited and all our guided walks are researched and written by the guides leading them. Guided tours by and for those who love London delivere...

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