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This is my list of walking tours in London. Each lasts two hours and costs £10 for students and seniors like me or £15 for everyone else. The City is covered by four different walks: The TS Eliot Waste Land Tour, The Quack Doctor Tour, the Shakespeare Lute Tour and The City Churches Tour. Bloomsbury is the Medical Tour, Chelsea is the Iron Lady Tour. The Tower and St Pauls speak for themselves. 




Tours

001 JOSEPH HAYDN AND THE CHANGING OF THE GUARDDistance: 0 milesDuration: 1 hourMonday morning walking tour re-imagining London in the 1790s and incorporating the Changing of the Guard. The Austrian composer Joseph Haydn accepted an invitation to visit London at the beginning ...
002 CITY CHURCHES WALKING TOUR Distance: 0 milesDuration: 1 hourFan-vaulting, a colonnade garden, wood carved as fruit, a Norman crypt, a mighty pipe organ..... The churches we visit on this 90-minute walking tour on Fridays in August 2021 include St Mary Alde ...
003 TS ELIOT THE WASTE LAND CENTENARY TOURDistance: 0 milesDuration: 1.5 hoursThis is a live walking tour of London locations in TS Eliot's The Waste Land. We start at 11.30am from Blackfriars tube (north side of the river). We shall go up Queen Victoria Street to where St ...
005 SHAKESPEARE WITH LUTEDistance: 0 milesDuration: 1 hourThe Shakespeare tour takes place on Saturdays at 11am and starts from the entrance to Southwark Cathedral, London SE1. I will be playing lute music from 1030am in the courtyard in front of the ent ...
JACK THE RIPPER PIANO TOUR Distance: 0 milesDuration: 1.5 hoursThe Jack the Ripper Piano Tour reveals London in 1888 when a serial killer, who was never caught, prowled at night the vermin-infested streets of Whitechapel as we will do. En route Rick Jones tel ...
St David's Day WalkDistance: 0 milesDuration: 1 hourIachydd da! Join us on Tuesday 1st March for a St David's Day walk through the City of London. We meet outside Tower Hill tube at 11am because the Welsh were here first. Way back in the mists of t ...

Virtual tours

004 THE IRON LADY TOURDuration: 1.5 hours90-minute walking tour of Margaret Thatcher's Chelsea. We visit the apartment where she first was married in the 1950s, multitasking - bringing up twins and studying law. We visit the Flood Street ...
006 MEDICAL TOUR: ALL AROUND THE UNIVERSITYDuration: 1 hourAll Around the University or Firsts and Inventions in the History of MedicineThis 90-minute live walking tour follows a circular route around the buildings of University College London (UCL) whose ...
007 THE QUACK DOCTOR TOURDuration: 1 hourThis walking tour considers the mis-spent life of Lionel Lockyer (1600-1672), an unqualified doctor who claimed to have trapped sunshine in a pill which he called the Sunlight Pill. He claimed it ...
008 ST PAULS CATHEDRALDuration: 1 hourAs a former chorister, I am well placed to show you roundSt Paul's. We start at the west front with the story it reveals in stone. Inside, we contemplate the genius and courage of the architect Si ...
Virtual Hop-On-Hop-Off London Bus Tour Duration: 1 hourSaturday morning 10am, the virtual open-topped bus departs on a two-hour round trip of the sights of London - Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, Regent S ...
Virtual Tour Shakespeare Birthday Lecture X: John Fletcher Duration: 1 hourVirtual tour: William Shakespeare retired as chief playwright for his acting company The King's Men in 1612 and handed over to John Fletcher with whom he had already collaborated on a number of pr ...
Virtual Tour: History of English Music Duration: 1 hourThis is an illustrated lecture covering the 500 years of English music history from the Renaissance church composer John Taverner (1490-1545) to the Neo-Renaissance church composer John Tavener (1 ...
Virtual Tour: Ring Out the Bells!Duration: 1 hourA joyous virtual celebration of London's bells in sight and sound to mark the end of lockdownMonday 17 May marks the final relaxation of all lockdown restrictions. To celebrate, this virtual tour ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare and his Brother Edmond Duration: 1 hourWilliam Shakespeare's exploits as an actor so inspired his younger brother Edmond, that the latter decided to follow him down to London. He joined the acting company and it is thought, played the ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare and Medicine Duration: 1 hourA description of medical practice in Shakes[dare's time and in his plays, focusing on his son-in-law, ghe physician JOhn Hall.William Shakespeare's daughter married the Stratford physician John Ha ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare and Nell GwynDuration: 1 hourVirtual tour exploring the surprising connection between the Bard and the Bawd, the greatest playqright and the first female stand-up comedienne.Shakespeare’s sister Joan married a hatmaker call ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan FeministDuration: 1 hourThe Life and Times of Elizabeth Newcomen, Shakespeare's milkmaid, benefactor and founder of a girl's schoolElizabeth Newcomen 1605-1675 was born in Southwark when Shakespeare was 42. She was the l ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare and the Marlowe Conspiracy Duration: 1 hourDid Christopher Marlowe write what we know as Shakespeare's plays? One of the world's great conspiracy theories explored....This virtual tour matches the lives of William Shakespeare and Christoph ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare and the Nine Days Wonder Duration: 1 hourWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare and his clown Will Kemp had a disagreement in 1599. Kemp left the company and set up on his own. To raise some cash he danced to Norwich for a bet during Len ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare and the Queen's SaddlerDuration: 1 hourVirtual tour exploring the subject of Shakespeare, the Queen's saddler, the stonemason and a plot to murder Her MajestyJohn Bingham 1550-1625 lived in Southwark during Shakespeare’s time there. ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare Birthday Lecture IX: John GowerDuration: 1 hourVirtual tour: William Shakespeare borrowed Pericles from the poet John Gower 1330-1408 who has a large ornate tomb in Southwark Cathedral which the former visited often. The Bard compensated for h ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare Birthday Lecture VIII: John HarvardDuration: 1 hourVirtual tour: William Shakespeare grew up with John Harvard's mother in Stratford Upon Avon and when he had started to make a living in London as an actor and playwright, introduced her to his but ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare Birthday Lecture XI: DickensDuration: 1 hourVirtual tour: Charles Dickens was both thrilled and petrified by the experience of watching Shakespeare's Henry V as a small boy. The sword-fighters backed up against the box he was sitting in; he ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare Birthday Lecture XII: Heminge and Condell Duration: 1 hourVirtual tour: John Heminge and Henry Condell were the last two remaining actors from the company which produced Shakespeare's plays during the 1590s and 1600s. They realised that if they did not c ...
Virtual Tour: Shakespeare Birthday Lecture XIII Ralph CraneDuration: 1 hourThe last of the Shakespeare Birthday Lectures investigates the life and times of 'Shakespeare's editor' Ralph Crane who put together the texts of the plays for the First Folio in 1623 - seven year ...
Virtual Tour: The Moonploy TourDuration: 1 hour'This is a great introduction to London!' That's the verdict of Peter Schlosser, runner-up in the US Monopoly Championships in 2013 who came on the Moonploy Tour in January 2021. The Tour visits t ...
Virtual Tour: The Welsh are the Real EnglishDuration: 1 hourThis is a St David's Day virtual tour by flying dragon of the places of most Welsh influence in London, or Llundain as the Welsh call the capital. In fact the Welsh lived here before the Romans an ...

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