London War Walks

11/10/2018

Looking for a way to mark Remembrance Sunday? Come and join us on our walk around Whitehall...it's a unique way to experience the atmosphere on what is a very special day.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembering-the-great-war-on-remembrance-sunday-tickets-47635742789

On Remembrance Sunday you can re-live World War I in Whitehall and meet the politicians who ran the show - close to each other and far from the front. Be there where men blocked the streets answering their call to enlist. Remember those amongst them and in the conscripted armies who died, and then u...

11/06/2018

Lovely feeling of accomplishment after our beloved Home Front walk as part of Open Garden Squares

04/03/2018

Newsflash: at 2.30pm on Saturday 7th April 2018 we'll be running our guided walk remembering the centenary of the end of the First World War. Do come and join us...you can book through Evenbrite:

As the bombs fell, London could take it – and that’s World War 1, not the Blitz. Come on this walk to understand the massive impact of the Great War on the capital. We take you through from the massed cheering crowds as war was declared to the deep grief of post-war remembrance. In between we fa...

12/09/2017

Great news! Our Remembrance Sunday walk around Whitehall is now up on Eventbrite. It should be a moving yet memorable afternoon, so please come and join us! Tickets available through the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-war-i-a-walk-of-remembrance-tickets-37834996493

08/08/2017

Stay tuned for the announcement of our Remembrance Sunday walk on 12th November...coming soon...

18/06/2017

A glorious day on which to have led our "WWI: Walk of Remembrance" for Open Garden Squares Weekend. As you can see, we had some very distinguished company!

06/06/2017

We'll be running two of our acclaimed First World War walks during Open Garden Squares Weekend on 17th and 18th June.

You can click through the link below to 'Activities' and then to 'Guided Walks' where you can book onto them. "A Walk of Remembrance" through Westminster and Whitehall is running at 12pm and 2.30pm on Saturday 17th June, while "The Home Front: City Life in the Great War" will be at 10.30am on Sunday 18th June.

Hope to see you there!

http://www.opensquares.org/index.html

Feed your curiosity and explore over 230 private, secret and little-known gardens across 27 London boroughs over one very special weekend. Gardens range from the historic and traditional to the new and experimental, and include private gardens, roof gardens, community allotments, gardens belonging t...

12/05/2017

Check out the Bookings page on our website for details of our walk on Sunday 28th May, and also the three walks we'll be running as part of Open Garden Squares Weekend on 17th and 18th June!

http://londonwarwalks.com/bookings/

If you would like to be notified about future walks, please leave us your email details using the contact form below.  You can also follow us on Twitter or Facebook using the buttons at the top of this page, where new walks will be posted! If you would like to discuss a group booking

28/04/2017

We're thrilled to announce that we'll be running our hugely popular walk "The Home Front: City Life in the Great War" on Sunday 28th May! Book tickets through Eventbrite:

Led by accredited guides, this walk brings to life what it felt like to live and work in the City of London during the Great War. Although punctuated by major events, the walk focuses on individual stories, some virtually unknown, and by doing so shines a different light on well-known City monument...

11/11/2016

Final call for what could be the very last running of our Somme remembrance walk - this Remembrance Sunday 13th November, starting at 1pm from Somerset House! It should be a very special day. You can book by clicking through to the Eventbrite booking page below:

Today, on Remembrance Sunday when the atmosphere in Whitehall is at its most reflective, we remember the men who fought and died at the Battle of the Somme. One hundred years ago, on 1st July 1916, tens of thousands of British troops left their trenches and walked methodically towards the German mac...

28/09/2016

Our next blog post to go up on the website will feature the man in the top hat, and in particular, the building that he's coming out of. Do you know who / what they are?

04/08/2016

Curious to know more about the connection between the Hotel Cecil and the Battle of the Somme in 1916? Come and join us this Sunday 7th August at 11am (Somerset House, Strand entrance) for our walk 'Remembering the Somme' marking the 100th anniversary of the battle...

Booking via Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembering-the-somme-tickets-25122280417

02/07/2016

Very moving aerial film of the Somme cemeteries...

WW1 Revisited has used a drone to capture some of the Great War battlefields from above, where soldiers of the Great War were laid to rest.

20/06/2016

Another wonderful weekend leading our First World War walks around Whitehall and the City of London for Open Garden Squares! Good weather, lovely people and stories that again remind us in good ways and bad about what happened one hundred years ago. Now looking forward to polishing off our walk to mark the 100th anniversary of the Somme, and to launching it at at 7.30am on 1st July. For tickets, visit the homepage of our website - we'll be leading both walks on 1st July (7.30am and 2pm), 3rd July (11am) and 7th August (11am)

17/06/2016

The Mall during the Peace Parade of 1919. We tell that story and many more on our First World War walk of remembrance for Open Garden Squares this weekend.

11/06/2016

No words needed...

09/06/2016

Check out the new homepage of our website... londonwarwalks.com

06/04/2016

Without giving too much away, our walk marking the 100th anniversary of the Somme will include this...

02/03/2016

Currently developing a fascinating walk to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July. The walk will be run in conjunction with the City of Westminster Guides & Lecturers Association. Watch this space!

10/11/2015

It was a memorable WWI Walk of Remembrance around Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday, led by Westminster Guides Charlie Forman, Emmanuel Lebaut and Mark Lubienski. It's always a very special day when the fallen are remembered in our capital city, and when we have the privilege of recounting some of those stories.

14/06/2015

Still buzzing after the debut of our new walk 'The Home Front: City Life in the Great War' in the City of London this morning, as part of Open Garden Squares Weekend! It was encouraging to have such a large, and keenly interested, group with us on the walk. The group heard many stories of City life, including about the financial crisis of July 1914, recruitment of stockbrokers for the Western Front, a brave German spy and how the Silvertown explosion lit up the London sky. Greatly looking forward to the next rendition!

08/06/2015

Less than five days to go until Open Garden Squares Weekend! If you want to know why Prince Max Lichnowsky was known as the 'good German', or how the Zimmerman Telegram was instrumental in bringing the USA into World War I, you can find out on our WWI Walk of Remembrance in Whitehall...book here: http://www.opensquares.org/activities/guidedwalks.html

07/06/2015

Only a week to go until we run our 'World War I - Walk of Remembrance' in Whitehall, and when we will debut our new walk, 'The Home Front: City Life in the Great War' in the City of London. All the walks are activities that you can enjoy as part of Open Garden Squares, and you can book through this link: http://www.opensquares.org/activities/guidedwalks.html

The City walk has proved very popular and is now fully booked, but there are still places left on the Whitehall walk, where you will hear about the events of the July Crisis of 1914, and see how the Great War is remembered.

Whilst many famous people are buried in the surviving seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sections, an interesting post-war garden was created from the area heavily bombed in the war. Many wild flowers as well as modern planting complement a fascinating history.

10/02/2015

We'll be running our 'World War I - Walk of Remembrance' on Saturday 25th April. That day will be a very poignant day in Whitehall since it's ANZAC day, and there will be wreath-laying at the Cenotaph and a service in Westminster Abbey to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the fateful Gallipoli landings. Details of this walk, and others later in the year, will follow shortly and will include the debut of a second WWI themed walk in another part of London.

10/11/2014

It was a memorable day on Remembrance Sunday, giving our "World War I - Walk of Remembrance" to the members of the award-winning Christian Connection dating site. It was a privilege, and a unique experience, to be able to tell the story of the Great War on the day when the fallen were remembered

04/11/2014

On Remembrance Sunday we'll be leading our "World War I - Walk of Remembrance" through Whitehall, for members of the Christian Connection award-winning online dating site. It should be a most poignant day.