SPECIAL WALKS
The Smorgasbord...

 

DATE TOUR  TIME STATION
Jan. 25 Scotia Nostra - A Burns Night Special Guided by Adam in His Kilt! 7 pm EmbankmentTube
Jan. 30 Oxford & the Cotswolds 9.30 am Paddington Railway station by main ticket office - by Platform 1
Jan. 30 Epicurean, Gourmets' Foodies' London (see the film of this one) 10 am MonumentFish Street Hill exit
Jan. 30 Children, Charity & Change - optional Foundling Museum visit at end! 10.45 am HolbornTube
Jan. 30 Doctors' London - Pox & Plague, Leeches & Quacks 2.30 pm St. Paul'sTube exit 2
Jan. 30 Old Holland Park Village 2.30 pm Holland ParkTube
Jan. 30 Sailor Town - Smugglers & Tars, Pirates & Pubs down the Old Waterfront 7.15 pm Tower HillTube
Jan. 31 The Execution of a King - Roundheads, Cavaliers, Pikes, Muskets & Plumed Hats! Be sure to bring  your camera 10.45 am St. James's ParkTube Broadway/ Westminster Abbey exit
Jan. 31 Bloody City - Rulers & Rebels in Mediaeval London 2.30 pm BarbicanTube
Feb. 6 Windsor Castle & Eton 10 am Waterloo Railway Station by main ticket office - opposite Platform 16
Feb. 6 Charming Chiswick - Olde Worlde Riverside Village 10.45 am Ravenscourt ParkTube
Feb. 6 The City & the Wars of the Roses 10.45 am St. Paul'sTube exit 2
Feb. 6 Thames Beachcombing 12 noon Mansion HouseTube exit 1
Feb. 6 Amazing Grace - A Walk to Celebrate the Abolition of the Slave Trade 2.30 pm MonumentFish Street Hill exit
Feb. 6 The Notting Hill Gate & Old Holland Park Village Pub Walk 7.15 pm Notting Hill Gate North exit
Feb. 7 Tales & Trails of Tooting Town 10.45 am Tooting Broadway
Feb. 7 All Change at St. Pancras 10.45 am King's CrossTube Euston Road north exit
Feb. 7 Thames Beachcombing 1 pm Mansion HouseTube exit 1
Feb. 7 Jane Austen's London - Janet will be dressed as Jane Austen! 2.30 pm Green ParkTube Royal Academy exit
Feb. 13 Bath - The Florence of England! 9 am Paddington Railway Station by main ticket office - by Platform 1
Feb. 13 Political London - Guided by a House of Commons Insider! 10.45 am St. James's ParkTube Broadway/ Westminster Abbey exit
Feb. 13 Gandhi's London - this walk is free for students & seniors! 2.30 pm TempleTube
Feb. 13 "On the shoulders of giants" - Scientific London 2.30 pm Baker StreetTube Baker Street north exit
Feb. 13 Backstairs Belgravia - Byways, Hidden Haunts & Classic Pubs 7.15 pm Hyde Park CornerTube exit 3
Feb. 14 Lorr! The Love, Lies & Lust of London - A Valentine's Day Special 10.45 am EmbankmentTube
Feb. 14 Hangman's London 2.30 pm FarringdonTube
Feb. 14 The Shock of the Old! - 500 Years of West End Architecture 2.30 pm Green ParkTube north exit
Feb. 17 Shakespeare, Sir Toby Belch & the Cakes & Ale Ceremony 1.30 pm St. Paul'sTube exit 2
Feb. 20 Stonehenge & Salisbury - "you'll never see anything like it again" 9.45 am Waterloo Railway Station main ticket office - opposite Platform 16
Feb. 20 Thames Beachcombing 10.30 am Mansion HouseTube exit 1
Feb. 20 Foodies' London - The West End 10.45 am Green ParkTube the Ritz exit
Feb. 20 The Medicine Man - A Physician-Guided Welcome to the Wellcome Museum!
10.45 am Goodge StreetTube
Feb. 20 Detectives' London - Miss Marple, Miss Vane and a Touch of Wimsey 2.30 pm Green ParkTube north exit
Feb. 20 The London by Gaslight Pub Walk 7.15 pm EmbankmentTube
Feb. 21 Going for Gold in the East! See it before 2012 10.45 am West HamTube
Feb. 21 Thames Beachcombing 11 am Mansion HouseTube exit 1
Feb. 21 The Regent's Canal - King's Cross to Old Camden Town 2.30 pm King's CrossTube by taxi rank
Feb. 27 Cambridge - "can such places be?" 9 am King's Cross Railway station meet at start of Platform 8 - by main ticket office
Feb. 27 "Bond, James Bond" - 007's & Ian Fleming's London 10.45 am Marble ArchTube exit 2, the Park Lane exit
Feb. 27 London's Literary Golden Mile - ends with a tour of the new British Library 2.30 pm Warren StreetTube
Feb. 27 The Notting Hill Gate & Old Holland Park Village Pub Walk 7.15 pm Notting Hill GateTube North exit
Feb. 28 "Local London" - Palace of Wonders 10.45 am Crystal Palace Railway Station
Feb. 28 A "Local London" Saunter - Tales of Tea & the 'Muse See' Horniman 2.30 pm Forest Hill Railway Station
Mar. 6 Canterbury - Across the Immense Span of Centuries 8.30 am Victoria Railway Station
Mar. 6 Down the Lazy River 10.45 am Highbury & IslingtonTube
Mar. 6 A Slice of India at Holi Festival 2.30 pm Southall Railway Station
Mar. 6 Trail of Terror - the Nightmare City of Jekyll & Hyde, Vampires & Dracula 2.30 pm Green ParkTube north exit
Mar. 6 Secret St. James's - A Pub Walk in the Olde Palace Quarter 7.15 pm Green ParkTube Park exit
Mar. 7 All Change at St. Pancras 10.45 am King's CrossTube Euston Road north exit
Mar. 7 The Regent's Canal - Paddington Basin-Paddington Arm-Little Venice 2. 30 pm Edgware RoadTube Circle & District Lines exit
Mar. 13 Royal Winchester 9.30 am Waterloo Railway Station by main ticket office - opposite Platform 16
Mar. 13 Epicurean, Gourmets' Foodies' London 10 am MonumentFish Street Hill exit
Mar. 13 Beat London - Kerouac, Ginsberg & Dylan 10.45 am EmbankmentTube
Mar. 13 Gandhi's London - this walk is free for students & seniors! 2.30 pm TempleTube
Mar. 13 Mr. Penton's "Ville' - Healing Wells to Filthy McNasty's 2.30 pm AngelTube
Mar. 13 Old Bayswater - Executions, Mews & Secret Pubs 7.15 pm Marble ArchTube exit 4
Mar. 14 St. Albans - An England in Miniature 10 am West HampsteadTube
Mar. 14 Scandalous St. John's Wood 10.45 am St. John's WoodTube
Mar. 14 Old Walthamstow - A Hidden Village 2.30 pm Walthamstow CentralTube bus station exit
Mar. 17 The St. Patrick's Day Pub Walk - with Shaughan! 7.15 pm TempleTube
Mar. 20 Salisbury & Stonehenge - for the Spring Equinox! 9.45 am Waterloo Railway Station by main ticket office - opposite Platform 16
Mar. 20 Thames Beachcombing 10 am Mansion HouseTube exit 1
Mar. 20 Keep Smiling Through - the World War II Home Front 10.45 am OvalTube
Mar. 20 Tudor Whitehall - The Forbidden City 2.30 pm EmbankmentTube
Mar. 20 The Hidden West End - Gin City, the Seven Deadly Dials, the Slum of Slums! 7.15 pm Tottenham Court RoadTube exit 3
Mar. 21 Thames Beachcombing 10 am Mansion HouseTube exit 1
Mar. 21 Terra Incognita - Seeing the Elephant in Souf London 10.45 am Elephant & Castle
Mar. 21 The Regent's Canal - Little Venice to Camden Town 2.30 pm Warwick AvenueTube
Mar. 27 Bath - England at its best! 9 am Paddington Railway Station by main ticket office - by Platform 1
Mar. 27 Going for Gold in the East - See it before 2012! 10.45 am West HamTube
Mar. 27 "Local London" - Denmark Hill & Camberwell: Aesthetes, Assembly Rooms & Market Gardens 2.30 pm Denmark Hill Railway Station 
Mar. 27 The Secret Village Pub Walk 7.15 pm St. Paul'sTube exit 2
Mar. 28 Bethnal Green - The Lost Village in London's Backyard 10.45 am Bethnal GreenTube Museum of Childhood exit
Mar. 28 Wapping Tales - Ships, Pirates & Murders 2.30 pm Tower HillTube
Apr. 3 Oxford & the Cotswolds 9.30 am Paddington Railway Station main ticket office - by Platform 1
Apr. 3 Chaucer's London 10.45 am St. Paul'sTube exit 2
Apr. 3 Passion & Poetry - Keats in Hampstead 10.45 am HampsteadTube
Apr. 3 Maritime Rotherhithe & the Mayflower - Pilgrims, Pubs, Piers, Palaces (and Brunel) 2.30 pm BermondseyTube
Apr. 3 Bohemian Fitzrovia - A Pub Walk in London's Old Latin Quarter 7.15 pm Goodge StreetTube
Apr. 4 The Tea and Coffee Walk Cupfuls of History - Cheers! 10.45 am Liverpool StreetTube Bishopsgate exit
Apr. 4 Three Mills, the Bow Back Rivers & 2012 Games London 2.30 pm Bromley-by-BowTube
Apr. 10 Cambridge - "can such places be?" 9 am King's Cross Railway Station meet at the start of Platform 8 - by main ticket office
Apr. 10 The Dark Side of Kensington - Murder, Fascists, Russkies, Beautiful Spies...the Lot! 10.45 am Gloucester RoadTube
Apr. 10 Brick Lane - Mecca of the East! 2.30 pm Aldgate EastTube Gallery exit
Apr. 10 The Little Italy Pub Walk 7.15 pm FarringdonTube
Apr. 17 Chartwell & the Weald of Kent 9.15 am Charing Cross Railway Station
Apr. 17 A Doctor-Guided Doctors' London Walk - Amputations & Anesthetics 10.45 am St. Paul'sTube exit 2
Apr. 17 "Bond, James Bond"  007 & Ian Fleming's London - the "shaken not stirred Pub Walk 7.15 pm Marble ArchTube exit 2
Aug. 22 Hangman's London 2.30 pm FarringdonTube
   N.B. This table is a rolling Work in Progress - because over the course of a "season" there are 100s of Special London Walks! Please check back regularly - the Summer 2010 "Specials" will be going up here later this month and in February