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Looking Ahead - Thames Mudlarkingnext Autumn/early Winter - here are the dates...
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Down the Tube
Fiona's 150 Years of the Underground walk is coming back into the programme. It'll take place at 11 am on the first Tuesday of every month. Baker Street Tube, Baker Street North exit.
Summer Programme PDF
It's about one inch up from the words you're reading right now! Enjoy.
"The world's leading experton Jack the Ripper" is back in action. Yes, the broken bone's healed and Donald Rumbelow is guiding again.
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The Jack the Ripper WalkMaking a booking. You don't have to but you can. Here's how...
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Hire a GuideIf you're thinking about "going private" this is worth a read...
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All upside, no downsideLike a small lottery win...
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LONDON WALKS CALENDARIt's intuitive. It's quick. Get in. Find what you want. Get out.
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GREAT ESCAPES!
The sobriquet for our day trips. A different destination every Saturday! Plus a few wild cards. See the little gem of a pdf due north of these words.
Thames Mudlarking ScheduleBeachcombing with the world's leading expert on this stretch of the Thames foreshore. Can't be bad! A click takes you to the Summer 2013 schedule.
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The Game!on the London Walks Blog. "...want to thank you for all the daily tidbits about London which i absolutely adore, I also thank you for this cool game which I'm starting to enjoy a lot! :-) Cheers!" Two clicks and a scroll down takes you there.
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Behind the Termini WalksHere are the particulars for Rachel's Summer 2013 Behind the Termini walks. And she's penned a tasty little blurb for each of them.
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Old Mayfair – the Photo EssayIt's our sexiest photo essay. Take a look and you'll, er, see why. it's just gone up.
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Fitzrovia – The Photo EssayHere it is...
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GOTCHA!The Lord Mayor of London and Guide Jean in their finery on a London Walk on Christmas Eve!
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Guided by the Stars!London Walks has better guides – including the distinguished crime historian who is "internationally recognised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper"! Here are the dates Britain's foremost crime historian will be guiding the Ripper walk between now and the end of February.
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Don't Just Take It From UsJust out. A fab review of Shaughan's Old Jewish Quarter Walk
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Real ScreamsThis little film is why you book a private ghost walk with London Walks.
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Proper Tea in London!
Want the real thing? Rather than a cup of hot water and a teabag. And most definitely rather than something that costs a king's ransom. Well, let London Walks beam you in. Get in touch and we'll tell you where. Local knowledge – you can't beat it!
Harry Potter Film LocationsWe've made a delightful film of one of our Harry Potter Film Locations Walks...
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The San Francisco Chroniclehas just given London Walks a rave review – "the unfailingly fascinating London Walks", etc. etc. etc. Yet another one for the What They Say About LW trophy case.
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Amy WinehouseHer neighbourhood (photo essay and some accompanying historical remarks)...
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Don's Capitol Hill AddressYes, the International Homicide Investigators Association wanted to hear from the world's leading expert on Jack the Ripper. And that's what we mean when we say "There's no comparison" between London Walks guides and the knock-offs.
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London Walks guides have four!
books in the pipeline. Aunties' Charley, Charles' autobiography, is published next month. To be followed by a London Stories companion volume – it takes as its subject our Day Trip, out-of-town destinations. And Rachel's book on Jewish London. And "The World's Greatest Guide" – Karen's – on Royal London.
The Knightsbridge Pub Walkevery Friday night. If you're tempted, go for it. It's a great walk. Here's a really detailed description – with photos.
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It's the Ultimate Accolade!In the starting lineup of "The World's Greatest Guides". Yes, it's London Walks guide Karen. The august American travel publication Travel & Leisure has just crowned her in their "The World's Greatest Tour Guides" article. She's one of just 15 – and, yes, the only one from England.
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Tugs All Your Heart Strings!It's about a little Londoner – a 3-year-old – and Moo Moo and the Northern Line and a couple of heroes...
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Legal & Illegal LondonA private Legal London walk guided by a barrister – a member of one of the Inns of Court – is as good as it gets.
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Brain SurgeryIf I have to have it
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Dreaming of the CotswoldsHere's why...
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It's a Feast!
Foodies' London has now got is own website.
www.foodieslondon.com
Compliments to the Chef!
10 out of 10You want to read something that's both powerful – and magical – about our town and our times and past times (with a couple of stunning photos to accompany it) hit the link
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London Walks on BBC
"Helen Marks discovers a dramatic transformation to the waters of the River Thames" is how the BBC is trailing the Radio 4 programme on Thames Beachcombing. It's aired bright and early – 6.07-6.30 am – on New Year's Day. And then available on BBC Iplayer. And there'll be a rebroadcast.
London Ghost WalksThe new London Walks website – www.londonghostwalks.com – is up and running. It's Adam-written and designed, so it's witty and classy.
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The Man is back –and guiding! Back from China, Donald Rumbelow, "internationally recogised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper", will be guiding the nightly – 7.30 pm from Tower Hill Tube – Jack the Ripper Walk on...
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YEAR-ROUND!Yes, London Walks operates year-round!
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Blog - TwitterFree Walks...
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The SmorgasbordThe 300+ "one-offs" and "occasionals" we're doing this summer are set out chronologically on the Special Walks page.
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Free Walks!Etc. Quite a lot of etc.
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Old Jewish QuarterCheck it out – the film of the walk.
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Here It Is!The at-a-glance list of all of our out-of-town trips (to Stonehenge, Oxford, Winchester, Cambridge, Hampton Court, Bath, Rye, Constable Country, Lavenham, Avebury & Lacock, Glastonbury & Wells, Leeds Castle, St. Albans, The Cotswolds, etc.) this summer. All 128 of them!
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The London Walks Walkers Facebook GroupNine compelling reasons why you should seriously think about signing up for it
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"Donald Rumbelow is internationally recognised as theleading authority on Jack the Ripper". Don regularly guides our Ripper Walk. His schedule (April to mid-Sept.) is now up.
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"Your Blogis wonderful! Who writes it?"
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The Hampstead Filmis here
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It's Here!The new film of our Bath trip
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More Filmson the way!
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Like Halley's CometIt's just once or twice a century
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And Lookee There!
Ghost? caught on a photograph on our ghost walk? See the London Walks blog.
"If this was a golftournament every name on the Leader Board would be a London Walks guide"
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The Filmof our British Museum Tour premieres here!
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Fireworks!tongued with fire
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Who wants to seethe Queen?
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Our New Film isa brilliant taster of the "Somewhere Else" London Walk...
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London Walks FilmsCheck 'em out.
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Walks & KidsHere's a tip
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Thinking aboutgoing on the Oxford & Cotswolds trip? Here's a review.
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Ghost Walk FilmIt's here
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London Walks WalkersThis is for you, compliments of the sparkplug, the live wire...
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Our New Filmstars Greenwich and the Prince of Guides, Nick. Brilliant walk, brilliant guide. You can see it here.
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The Jack the Ripper Walk Filmand other matters (the book, the blog, etc.)
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And the Gold Medalgoes to...
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The Videoof our Cambridge trip! To see it click the link.
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Don't let them bait and switch you!This'll take care of it...
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BeachcombingHere's what The Guardian says about it...
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Our book!
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Half PriceSomething you might want to know
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Jack the Ripper's KnifeDon's got it...
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Mary's Passed!London Walks has a new award-winning Blue Badge Guide! And the "back story" is a bit of all right as well.
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St. Pancras WalksGuided by an architectural historian!
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More Voicefrom Lance's Poetry in Performance walk
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www.londonwalks.comAre these the five best paragraphs ever written about London?
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IT'S HERE!Our book...
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Now Hear This!Sound, glorious sound - we've got sound!
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A Proposal!Go on one of Adam's walks...
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What The Papers Say..."the best insight into Jack the Ripper..."
The Star on The Star!
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Guide NewsDistinctions matter.
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The Cafein the Crypt at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the old church in Trafalgar Square, has re-opened!
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Quentin TarantinoAnd the Chinese Ambassador...
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The Whale in the BathtubYes, this one's worth following up!
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London Walks ®Yes, you guessed right. That little symbol means exactly what you think it means. London Walks ® - our name - is now a registered trademark! Our registered trademark!!
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A Big House in a Big Woods on a Big Lake in Northern WisconsinThat's where your London Walks leaflet comes from in North American. But it gets even quirkier. I mean, how charming is this?
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Website Contributions Invited...Yes, let's get some of your fingerprints all over this website!
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Visit London - Best London Tour AwardAnd the winner is...
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What's New...A website about London and London Walks is necessarily a "work in progress". So here's a quick pointer to the latest additions to the site
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Donald's new Ripper bookIt's called Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard investigates...
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London Walks LeafletsHere are some places where you can always pick up a London Walks leaflet...
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THE RAIN
Don't miss Adam's verray parfait piece about the weather on the Daily Constitutional (the London Walks Blog).
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SPIES' & SPYCATCHERS' LONDON
This is a superb walk - full of insight, intrigue and amusing trivia. The guide was excellent - suitably austere, but brilliantly informative.
Where this walk succeeds (and, say, the West End murder walk by the same guide fails) is that there's a narrative - it's not just a random trail of unconnected events. This one is concentrated in an otherwise "hidden" part of town and it follows a distinct period in our history; some of the complacency in the intelligence services in the 50s and 60s was an eye-opener.
Very absorbing two hours, one of the best walks, even if you're not an espionage nut. |
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Snapperjack - London November 2009 I must say that this tour will hold you totally spellbound, Alan's knowledge on this subject of spies is outstanding. The walk is pleasant and the stops are frequent, Alan then produces his talk with a strong and clear voice that can be heard by everyone, I thought I knew a lot about the spies in our great city, Alan is truly a master on this subject. This is a walk well worth taking. |
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David Lane - freckenham suffolk November 2008 James Bond????? Who is he? This is the real deal. True life espionage brought to life by the flamboyant very well informed guide Alan. The two hours just flew by with us listening intently to every word , every snippet of information, and of course viewing the real locations where the real life spies operated. The innocuous building where history defining wartime plans were hatched, the dead letter box, the list is endless. Totally fascinating, a "must do" for any visitor. But be careful..... you could be followed. !!!! |
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MJJ - Lathrup Village, MI March 2008 Great tour, but like a previous poster, I would recommend reading up on Burgess, Mclean and the others before going on the tour. The relatively recent "spying" involving Litvinenko is tangentially mentioned, but it would be more current to have more info on him and to include stops from that situation.
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Hi MJJ,
David here. Good point. Good suggestion. I'll have a word with Alan, see if he can tweak matters a bit. Apropos that episode generally, did you know that Litvinenko is entombed up in Highgate cemetery - not so far from Karl Marx? And apparently he's so aglow with radioactivity that the tomb has had to be heavily lead-lined. I've learned same from John, who's written the chapter on Highgate village for the London Walks book. John's by far the most distinguished "journo" on the team - Michael Nicholson, the "Dan Rather of British television news", in his book described John as "the finest foreign editor he had ever worked with" - and so it came as no surprise to me that Johnners had managed to, er, unearth that tidbit (also he lives up there, so he's got amazing local contacts), but I'm awfully glad that he did.
Many thanks.
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H Evans - Vancouver March 2007 This walk is fun - it definitely helps if you know some of the history first, though (otherwise it might be a bit meaningless) - familiarize yourself with the stories of Klaus Fuchs, Kim Philby, Georgi Markov, etc., and you'll get much more out of it.
And you'll love seeing where the office of the real-life 'C' was!
I definitely recommend this one. (and you might want to make notes along the way so that you remember where you went - it all went by so fast that I'd be hard pressed to retrace my steps) |
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