• The Great Escape – Away We Go!
  

• "Somewhere Else" London
• Docklands – Cobblestones, Quaysides & Cloud-capped Towers
• Notting Hill & Portobello Market
  
• Brunel Walks on Water And Underwater!
  
• From the Repertory – the Saturday Morning Tour du Jour
• Old Westminster – 1,000 Years of History
• The London of Oscar Wilde
• Old Camden Town
• The Beatles "In My Life" Walk

• The Old City
• Old Kensington – London's Royal Village 
• The British Museum Tour 

• Little Venice 
• Old Marylebone – Psst! Read on...
• Harry Potter on Location in London Town
  
• Olympics London
  
• From the Repertory – the Saturday Afternoon Tour du Jour
• Spies' & Spycatchers' London 
• The Jack the Ripper Tour

• Murder Most Foul
• The Old Hampstead Village Pub Walk
• The "Other" Saturday Night Pub Walk
• Ghosts of the Old City
• The Jack the Ripper Tour

• Thames Mudlarking, Foodies' London Walks, etc.
  
  Ok, now scroll down for full details of each of Saturday's London Walks...

The Saturday Day Trip from London is a "moveable feast" because we go to a different destination every Saturday.
For the particulars of the Day Trip from London for any given Saturday see the following table. And as long as we're at it, here's the due diligence and full disclosure material!

DATE	THE SATURDAY DAY TRIP FROM LONDON	TIME	RAILWAY STATION
May 25	Churchill's Chartwell & the Weald of Kent	8.45 am	Charing Cross Railway Station
June 1	Stratford-upon-Avon & Shakespeare Country	8.30 am	Marylebone Railway Station
June 8	Avebury & Lacock	9 am	Paddington Railway Station
June 15	Bletchley Park  Station X, Ultra, Abwehr Enigma G 312, the Bombe, Block B & Hut 4	8.45 am	Euston  Railway Station
June 22	Stonehenge & Salisbury At Summer Solstice Season!	9.15 am	Waterloo Railway Station
June 29	Lavenham & the Villages of Suffolk	9 am	Liverpool Street Railway Station
July 6	Royal Winchester	9.30 am	Waterloo Railway Station
July 13	Bath  England at its best	9 am	Paddington Railway Station
July 20	The Cotswolds in Summer	9.45 am	Paddington Railway Station
July 27	Blenheim Palace & Oxford	9.30 am	Paddington Railway Station
Aug. 3	Leeds Castle & Rochester	8.30 am	Victoria Railway Station
Aug. 10	Stratford-upon-Avon & Shakespeare's Country	8.45 am	Marylebone Railway Station
Aug. 17	Lavenham, the Villages of Suffolk & Gardens	9 am	Liverpool Street Railway Station
Aug. 24	Avebury & Lacock	9 am	Paddington Railway Station
Aug. 31	Churchill, Chartwell & the Weald of Kent	8.45 am	Charing Cross Railway Station
Sept. 7	Rye, Battle & 1066 Country	8.45 am	Charing Cross Railway Station
Sept. 14	Bletchley Park  Station X, Ultra, Abwehr Enigma G 312, the Bombe, Block B & Hut 4	8.45 am	Euston Railway Station
Sept. 21	Salisbury & Stonehenge (on the day of the Equinox!)	9.15 am	Waterloo Railway Station
Sept. 28	Stratford upon Avon	8.45 am	Marylebone Railway Station
Oct. 5	The Cotswolds in Autumn	9.45 am	Paddington Railway Station
Oct. 12	Cambridge "Can such places be?"	9 am	King's Cross Railway Station
Oct. 19	Bath – England at its best	9 am	Paddington Railway Station
Oct. 26	Blenheim Palace & Oxford (for horrible happenings at Halloween!)	9.30 am	Paddington Railway Station
Nov. 2	TBA

Saturdays at 10.45 am
from Holland Park Tube

This is reconnaissance on the razzle – the search-party that syncopates. Because Notting Hill on a Saturday morning – market morning! – is curious and colourful, offbeat and yeasty. Here you walk with a ticket of freedom – a pass to scintillating escarpments. Just consider what's squeezed out onto the palette this hillside: swells and scruffs; market stalls and scandal; Jimi Hendrix and Carnival; Cut Throat Alley and Victorian Gothic; Madonna and Hugh Grant (let alone Julia Roberts and that bookshop); cottages, potteries and piggeries; colour washed mews and cab shelters and a race course and the gout route to Bath and butchers in straw hats and an invisible boundary between the present and the past....Magic! Speaking of which – magic I mean – how's this for a wonderful penumbra, a burst of flavour of London connections.  And as for Après-walk...

The Notting Hill & Portobello Market Walk
takes place every Saturday at 10.45 am

Meet Tom or Brian or Richard III just outside the exit of Holland ParkTube Stop.

Holland ParkTube Stop is on
theCentral Line   

Guided by Tom or Richard III or Brian

Many a beau without a shilling,
Many a widow not unwilling;
Many a bargain, if you strike it:
This is London! How d'ye like it?
         John Bancks,  "A Description Of London"

The walk in this time slot changes weekly.

For details see the following list.

DATE	WALK	TUBE STOP
May 25	Strand on the Green "London's last remaining true village"	GunnersburyTube Grange Road exit
June 1	Fair Maids, Feminists & Philanthropists	SouthwarkTube
June 8	Charlie Chaplin's London Cricket & Crannies, Nooks & Artists, Past Preserved!	KenningtonTube
June 8	A Passage to India  "It's like walking through a Punjabi village"	Southall Railway Station
June 15	The City Sculpture Safari London's Hidden Masterpieces	Tower HillTube
June 22	Charming Chiswick  Olde Worlde Riverside Village	Ravenscourt ParkTube
June 22	Publish & Be Damned Gotcha! The Street of Shame's Inky Secrets  This one's journalist-guided!	TempleTube
June 29	The Artist's Palace in Kensington Leighton House Tour  Guided by an art historian; there's a £5 admission charge.	High Street KensingtonTube
July 6	Viva Vauxhall  Thames & Tea, Potteries & Pleasure Gardens	VauxhallTube exit 2
July 13	The Greatest Multicultural City Invaders & Immigrants, Exiles & Escapees	WhitechapelTube
July 20	London's Literary Golden Mile Ends with a tour of the new British Library	Warren StreetTube
July 27	Old Dulwich Village "A green thought in a green shade"	VictoriaTube exit to Victoria
Aug. 3	The Origins & Archaeology of the City of London Archaeologist-guided!	Tower HillTube
Aug. 10	South Kensington Albertopolis, Alcazar & Alcoves in SW7	South KensingtonTube meet just beyond the ticket barrier
Aug. 17	Roffey's 1910 Ramble  Retracing a Famous Edwardian London Tour	Charing CrossTube by Charing Cross Hotel
Aug. 24	Defending the City  Claudian Invasion to Hitlerian Havoc	FarringdonTube
Aug. 31	A Putney Perambulation Puritans to Pleasure Seekers	Putney BridgeTube
Sept. 7	The Archaeology & London Life of William Shakespeare And, yes, this one's guided by a distinguished archaeologist!	Shoreditch High Street Railway Station
Sept. 14	Aesthetes, Assembly Rooms & Market Gardens Denmark Hill & Camberwell Long Live Local London!	Denmark Hill Railway Station
Sept. 21	Lepers & Leeches, Lancets & Laughing Gas  Medical Soho  Guided by a Public Health Physician!	Piccadilly CircusTube meet by Eros statue
Sept. 21	Inside London's Fashion Scene Savile Row to Stella McCartney	Oxford CircusTube exit 6
Sept. 28	Terra Incognita  Seeing the Elephant in Souf London	Elephant & CastleTube Bakerloo Line London Road exit
Oct. 5	Belgravia Money & Mansions, Magnificence & Mews, Power & Lust	Sloane SquareTube
Oct. 5	A Passage to India "It's like walking through a Punjabi village"	Southall Railway Station
Oct. 12	The Artists' Colony Arts & Crafts in Chelsea  This one's art historian-guided!	Sloane SquareTube
Oct. 19	Tooting Bec Saxons to POWs Guided by an English Gentleman!	Tooting BecTube
Oct. 26	The Borough Boys  Resurrectionists & Victorian Southwark	London BridgeTube Borough High Street exit
Nov. 2	The London of Jane Austen The Pride, Prejudice & Persuasion Perambulation	Green ParkTube north exit
Nov. 16	Foodies' London – Pie Crust to Upper Crust The Strand & Covent Garden	EmbankmentTube
Jan. 4	Foodies' London – The West End	Green ParkTube Green Park exit

11 am on Saturdays
from Green ParkTube
 (meet outside the north exit, on the corner) 

The 1890s. Gaslit streets. The rattle of hansom cabs. The silvery laughter of stagedoor Johnnies and chorus girls. The London of Whistler, Beardsley, Shaw, Lillie Langtry, and Gilbert & Sullivan. Above all, though, the London of Oscar Wilde. Oscar - of all writers, the best company. Oscar - at the height of his fame as dramatist and wit, amusing and outraging Victorian society by turns. Oscar - refulgent, majestic, ready to fall. And fall he did. His life came crashing down...mired in scandal and broken in three of the most celebrated trials of all time. We follow in Oscar's footsteps...tracing his triumph and tragedy in the very places where the drama unfolded, bringing to an end the Naughty Nineties. One of those "very places" Alan's talking about right here, in this bit of audio.

The London of Oscar Wilde Walk takes place

every Saturday morning at 11 am

 

Meet Alan just outside Green ParkTube
(outside the north exit, on the corner).

Green ParkTube is on
theVictoria, Jubilee & Piccadilly Lines

Guided by Alan (who will be attired as Mr.Wilde himself, green carnation and all!) 

11 am on Saturdays
from Camden TownTube

Camden Town is the London smorgesbord par excellence. A place where the past melts imperceptibly into the post-modern. A place of canals, cafes, cobblestones, Catacombs, craftsmen's studios, street cred, NW1 literati, Industrial Age iron and brick, leafy terraces and crescents, antiques, artists, actors, and art deco.

And that's not to mention Camden Lock, London's busiest and brightest market – and its fourth largest tourist attraction – which "at its best combines the bonhomie, excitement and buzz of Rio's Carnival"! The Lock is the centrepiece of the walk, but Judith, a local artist, also explores the sights behind the sights, unrolling the shifting scene like one of those Victorian panoramas: everything from street style and Neobeatniks to Dickens, Dingwalls, and the Vanishing Viscount by the canal; and from George Bernard Shaw and Toss the Pieman to Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan and the Electric Ballroom. Afterward, if you like, you can take a traditional narrowboat to the Zoo or Little Venice. And now, who's for some more images? Click here for a ragout of a Camden Town photo essay. And click here for a little illustrated essay on Amy Winehouse's Camden, some of which Judith touches on in her walk.

The Old Camden Town Walk takes place
every Saturday morning at 11 am

Camden TownTube.

Camden TownTube is on
theNorthern Line 

Guided by Judith

"I thought of London spread out in the sun
Its post districts packed like squares of wheat."
Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings, 1964

11.20 am on Saturdays
from MaryleboneTube

"There are places I'll remember all my life", sang the Beatles in one of their most evocative songs. Many of those places are in the "London Town" of this walk...so get back with Richard, "the Pied Piper of Beatlemania" (The Miami Herald), to the film locations for A Hard Day's Night and Help, the registry office where two of the Fabs were married, and the apartment immortalised by Ringo, John and Yoko. We'll also see the house where Paul lived with his glamorous girlfriend, actress Jane Asher. Those were the days...for it was in that house that John and Paul wrote I want to hold your hand. And to cap it all we'll go up to St. John's Wood to see the legendary Abbey Road studios and crosswalk. As the Toronto Globe and Mail said of the walk, "A splendid time is guaranteed for all." Here's a "grab" from the walk. And here's another 'un.

The Beatles In My Life Walk takes place
every Saturday at 11.20 am
and every Tuesday at 11.20 am.

Meet Richard P. – "the Pied Piper of Beatlemania" –
just outside the exit of MaryleboneTube.

MaryleboneTube is on

theBakerloo Line  

Guided by Richard P.

2 pm on Saturdays
from High Street KensingtonTube 

Meet by the 3 Phone shop – next to the pavement (sidewalk), just inside the arcade

This one's special. It's rarely the first – or even the second or third – walk people go on, but when they do get round to taking it, they often say it's the one they liked the most. And no wonder, because Royal Kensington is London at its best – picturesque, stimulating, and full of character. Its parts are as delightful as London can provide: everything from warmly handsome old Kensington Palace (home to the late Diana, Princess of Wales) to Kensington Gardens (all meadows, shaded walks, bowers, and flower gardens, it might be the grounds of a stately home in some rural shire) to cobbled little soigne lanes and mews, girt with pretty cottages and charming old shops; and from millionaires" row and regal avenues to beautifully kept squares and a clutch of the world's greatest museums; let alone a garden in the sky (the largest and most breathtaking roof garden in Europe); the secluded town house of the greatest Londoner of the 20th-century, an American president's flat, the most astonishing small literary house in the world, acres of gentility, a secret trap-door into a hidden world, and more history and colourful characters than you can shake a stick at.

And afterward you can visit the State Apartments or take tea at the Orangery at Kensington Palace! Now who's for a visual or six? Or if you'd like another word or two, click here. Or here.

And finally, how about some audio?   First, a "bite" from the walk itself: here's "the voice" – Angela – doing her stuff. Enjoy. And for a second course, well, as you've surely guessed, there's  a chapter on Kensington in our book, London Walks London Stories. It's one of the five chapters that have fallen to me, David, to write. And I've done the deed. Needless to say, it draws on – and is inspired by – the walk. And transforms it. It complements it, in other words. It's a companion piece to the walk. Anyway, here's a taster – both of the book and Kensington. In short, here's how the chapter opens.

The Old Kensington Walk takes place
every Saturday at 2 pm
and every Thursday at 2 pm

Meet David or Angela or Adam at High Street KensingtonTube. (The rendezvous point is by the 3 Phone shop – next to the pavement (sidewalk), just inside the arcade.)

High Street KensingtonTube is on
the Circle & District Lines

Guided on Saturdays by David or Angela
Guided on Thursdays by David or Adam

2 pm on Saturdays
from Bond StreetTube
(meet by the Forever 21 shop in Satratford Place opposite the station)

"London specialises in hiding the best of itself." Old Marylebone's a case in point. Here you'll lose your way and find your heart...get gratifyingly lost and get London back the way it was. The way it was at the time of the American Revolution! The way it was just after the Napoleonic Wars – for this is Regency London at its best! The way it was for Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett – we'll see the old church where they were married! What else? Well, this one's fascinating because it's so unexpected – a quirky old village in the heart of the West End; delightful because it's our greenest walk; revealing because it takes us into one of the private worlds London excels in; stimulating because it's like a series of flashbacks to every bit of old London you've ever seen; brilliant because of the private mansion we'll go into for a quick look at a couple of world famous paintings; satisfying because everything locks into place like the lines of a sonnet; and, finally, brilliant because of the sheer voltage of the finale: here is the loveliest set-piece in London, the final expression of a classical age, "a definition of western civilization in a single view".

The Old Marylebone Walk takes place
every Saturday afternoon at 2 pm

Meet Tom or Helena or Margaret
outside Bond StreetTube (meet on the north side of Oxford Street, in Stratford Place, by the Forever 21 shop).

Bond StreetTube is on
theCentral & Jubilee Lines

N.B. This is one of our "weather proof" walks. How so? Well, if the weather's completely foul, we spend a lot more time in the gallery!

Guided by Tom, Helena, or Margaret,

"I think it [London] on the whole the best point of view in the world."
Henry James, Letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 13 November 1880

2 pm on Saturdays
from Warwick AvenueTube

If you fancy something completely different, this is the walk for you. Little Venice is the prettiest and most romantic spot in town. A unique combination of white stucco, greenery, and water, it boasts the finest early Victorian domestic architecture in London; a Who's Who of famous residents (Robert Browning, Edward Fox, Joan Collins, Annie Lennox, and Sigmund Freud to name but a few); and a jewel of a "village" street. And that's not to mention its canals. One of them – Regent's Canal – is known as the "loveliest inland waterway in England". Part of the walk is along the canal towpath - which to this day is studded with fragments of evidence that bring the Age of Canals to life. And afterwards you can have tea – or a bite to eat – at a stylish canal-side cafe. And why not lend an ear? Which is by way of saying, here's a bit of audio from this walk. It's Shaughan in all his full-throated – let alone multi-charactered – glory!  And you'd like some more?  How about this? This one encapsulates a lot about Shaughan and his walks – just how much fun they are, how talented he is, why people like him so much and the kind of experience he turns a London Walk into. Enjoy.

Cue Shaughan, who guides the walk: "Walking this one is always a revelation – behind the elegant facade is the other story; the maids, butlers, cooks & grooms – the downstairs-backstairs people who made it work. I talk about the rise, decline and resurgence of wealth in the area – these days there are quite enough "Celebs" to turn Maida Vale into "Media Vale". I drop more mames on this one than you can fit in your basket.  And running through this stucco wedding cake – the artery that supplied goods from the Heart of England to its Brain – The Grand Union Canal. Look at London from both sides for an afternoon, and finish with chocolate cake and a boat ride."

The Little Venice Walk takes place
every Saturday at 2 pm;
every Sunday at 2 pm;
and every Wednesday at 11 am

Meet Shaughan just outside the exit
of Warwick AvenueTube.

Warwick AvenueTube is on
theBakerloo Line

Guided on Saturdays and Sundays by Shaughan
Guided on Wednesdays by Peter or Richard III

2 pm on Saturdays
from HolbornTube

The British Museum is the big one – the most important museum on the planet. It's an incomparably rich treasure-chest, brimming with things of world historical importance. The Rosetta Stone, the Egyptian antiquities and mummies, the Parthenon Sculptures, the Black Obelisk, the Enlightenment Gallery, 4,500-year-old "Ginger" (the "pre-dynastic" red head!), the Sutton Hoo treasure, the Portland Vase, Roman gold, Celtic gold, ivories and enamels, tiles and pottery, an astonishing display of instruments for measuring time...here is civilisation, manifest. Here the past turns on its pivots to face the 21st century. The snag is that you can't see for looking.  Both because of the embarrassment of riches and the sheer size of the place (the building covers 13.5 acres – set off in the wrong direction and you have to walk three times too far). Indeed, how you see it is almost as important as what you see. "The best commentary on the revolution of Greek art and the quality of its achievement is...simply to come direct to the Elgin room from the Egyptian and Assyrian ones, as if into an explosion of life, even, as in the frieze, of gaiety." Which is by way of saying, to see these things with a great guide – well, you'll never be quite the same again. In short, the secret is to use your time at the British Museum well.

Photo by Jon Block

One of the unsung joys of the British Museum tour is the short walk to the Museum. It takes you through London's most intricately pretty, doll's-house-tiny street. And the British Museum itself – as a building, its exteriors – is stunning. And that gets briefly guided as well. It's a wonderful bit of added value. A bonus.

Okay, time to take the gloves off with this one. GO ON THIS WALK. Coleridge once said that watching Kean act was like reading Shakespeare by lightning. This walk has that kind of ampage.I'll go further: it's the only London Walk that's got that kind of ampage. These artefacts – and a great guide – it's the Everest – the summit – of this activity, this profession, this pursuit. It all comes together here – History, Art, Western Civilisation (and its counterparts). Who we are – and why we are what we are. It's more than heady – it's thrilling.  Here's an example. It's Brian, shedding incandescent light on the Parthenon. (If you thought those were just some old Greek statues – of no moment, really, nothing to do with our modern age – well, these 90 seconds will have you mopping your brow.) And this is just his introduction! For a chaser, try this. Enjoy. N.B. this walk is a moveable feast – a diadem of delights, an amazing technicolour dream-coast. In short, every stop is cause for wonder. So come on back when you get a chance, there'll be more to sample here from time to time.

And on that note methinks it's time to garnish the words, words, words with a little photo essay. Open sesame by clicking here.

The British Museum Tour takes place
every Saturday afternoon at 2 pm
every Monday afternoon at 2.15 pm
every Wednesday afternoon at 2 pm

The meeting point is just outside the main exit of HolbornTube

Guided on Saturdays by Karen
Guided on Mondays by Tom or Chris or Hilary
Guided on Wednesday by Molly

2.30 pm on Saturdays
from Piccadilly CircusTube
(meet by the Clydesdale Bank, outside the subway 3 exit) 

"Espionage was the hot end of the cold war"

Spies' London is peopled with Ian Fleming's James Bond and John Le Carre's George Smiley. But it's also the London of the genuine article. The London where for over 40 years Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt and the mysterious fifth man infiltrated the British and American security services and spied for the Soviet Union. This walk takes us into that hole and corner, cloak and dagger London - into the secret places of that murky nether-world. Here we venture into the covert London of MI5, MI6, and the American O.S.S., progenitor of the CIA. Here we close in on the American Soviet agent who finally confessed and unveiled the "Cambridge Ring". Here we pinpoint the "dead letter box" and unmask the fifth man. Here, in Spies' London, fact really is stranger than fiction.

And on that note, here's some audio for you. D-Day first. Then a bearing on a nerve centre. Then some Cold War.

The Spies' & Spycatchers' London Walk
takes place every Saturday afternoon at 2.30 pm

He'll be topped to the north with a black hat...and a green carnation.
He'll be just outside the subway 3 exit of Piccadilly CircusTube
by the Clydesdale Bank.

Piccadilly CircusTube is on
theBakerloo & Piccadilly Lines

Guided by Alan

2.30 pm on Saturdays 

The walk in this time slot changes weekly.   
For details see the following list.

DATE	WALK	STATION
May 25	"Bond, James Bond" The London of 007 & Ian Fleming	Marble ArchTube  exit 2
June 1	Belgravia Money & Mansions; Magnificence & Mews; Power & Lust	Soane SquareTube
June 8	Merrie Islington  A River Swabbles through It	AngelTube
June 15	Mediaeval London	Tower HillTube
June 15	The Soho Murder Mile Body Snatchers, Blackout Ripper & Burkomania	Goodge StreetTube
June 22	The Old University Quarter Inside London's Sorbonne	Russell SquareTube
June 29	The Archaeology of the Rise & Fall of Roman London Guided by a distinguished Archaeologist!	Tower HillTube
July 6	Amazing Grace A Walk to Celebrate the Abolition of the Slave Trade	MonumentTube Fish Street Hill exit
July 6	William Morris & Friends Arts & Crafts in Hammersmith	Stamford BrookTube
July 13	Blooming Regency The Pleasures of the Park	Great Portland StreetTube
July 20	Dickens' Women From Fact to Fiction	HolbornTube
July 27	The Old West End Scandal, Skulduggery & Conspiracy in Celebrities' London	Marble ArchTube exit 1
Aug. 3	The Archaeology & History of Southwark Yes, guided by a distingished Archaeologist!	London BridgeTube Tooley Street exit
Aug. 3	The Yorkshire Yomp A Celebration of All Things Yorkshire in London	TempleTube
Aug. 10	Bonking London  More Sex Please, We're British!	WestminsterTube exit 5
Aug. 17	The Arthur Conan Doyle Walk The Adventures of Sherlock's Creator	Piccadilly CircusTube by Eros statue
Aug. 24	The Huguenots of Old Spitalfields Riches to Rags	Liverpool StreetTube Bishopsgate exit
Aug. 31	Roman London The London History Course	Tower HillTube
Sept. 7	Anglo Saxon, Norman & Early Mediaeval London The London History Course	Tower HillTube
Sept. 14	The High Middle Ages  The London History Course	Mansion HouseTube exit 1
Sept. 21	Tudor London  The London History Course	Chancery LaneTube exit 3
Sept. 28	The 'Century of Change: 1603 - 1714'  The London History Course	WestminsterTube exit 4
Oct. 5	Georgian London  The London History Course	Chancery LaneTube exit 3
Oct. 5	Suited & Booted  A Stroll through the History of Men's Fashion	Piccadilly CircusTube meet by Eros statue
Oct. 12	Regency London  The London History Course	Great Portland StreetTube
Oct. 19	Victorian London  The London History Course	HolbornTube
Oct. 26	20th Century London  The London History Course	BarbicanTube
Nov. 2	TBA

3 pm on Saturdays except Dec. 24/25
from Tower HillTube

He came silently out of the midnight shadows of August 31, 1888. Watching. Stalking. Butchering raddled, drink-sodden East End prostitutes. Leaving a trail of blood that led... nowhere. Yes, something wicked this way walked, for this is the Ripper's slashing grounds. We evoke that autumn of gaslight and fog, of menacing shadows and stealthy footsteps as we inspect the murder sites, sift through the evidence – in all its gory detail – and get to grips, so to speak, with the main suspects. Anything else? Just this. You're just a click away from a very special little video trailer of our Jack the Ripper Walk.

The Jack the Ripper's London Walk takes place
every* Saturday afternoon at 3 pm

*except Dec. 24 & Dec. 25

Meet Fiona or Peter just outside the exit
of Tower HillTube.

N.B., this is our Ripper "matinee". It takes place every Saturday afternoon (except Dec. 24 or Dec. 25). Every single night – except Dec. 24 and Dec. 25 – we do the Jack the Ripper Haunts Walk at 7:30 pm from just outside the exit of Tower HillTube.

Tower HillTube is on
theCircle & District Lines

Guided by Fiona or Peter

6 pm on Saturdays (from May 4 onward)
from EmbankmentTube

"You never seem to get a good murder nowadays." So we're going back to our great period in murder – our Elizabethan period, so to speak. Back to heinousness in high places and slaughter at the Savoy and torsos in trunks and heads in hat boxes and departures down the drain. Back to murderers whose reputation has stood the test of time. Back to depraved deeds which have given passels of pleasure to the British public. Back to that potent English cocktail of sex and strong emotions and respectability and all-prevailing hypocrisy.

The Murder Most Foul walk takes place
every* Saturday evening at 6 pm

*from May 4 onward

of EmbankmentTube.

 

EmbankmentTube is on
theCircle, Bakerloo, District & Northern Lines

Guided by Alan

7 pm on Saturdays
from HampsteadTube

Shhh! It's a secret. Hampstead is the best place to be in London on a Saturday night. It's the roof of London. We'll look down and see the lights of the greatest city on earth spread out before us. On a clear night we'll even nip into the Old Observatory for a look through the telescope at the starry heavens above. What else? Well, it's London at its most picturesque – a perfectly preserved Georgian village. There's a superb cast of characters – ranging from the highwayman Dick Turpin to the painter Constable to the poet Keats; from Freud and D.H. Lawrence to Liam Gallaher and Boy George; from Elizabeth Taylor and Rex Harrison to Peter O'Toole and Jeremy Irons. There's London's most villagey atmosphere, great restaurants, magnificent Hampstead Heath, and well-hidden, cozy old pubs you'll fall in love with. In short, this is a great walk...they just don't come any better.

The Old Hampstead Village Pub Walk takes place
every Saturday night at 7 pm

Meet Richard or Peter G.
just outside the exit of
HampsteadTube.

HampsteadTube is on the
Northern Line,  the Edgware branch

N.B., The Old Hampstead Village Walk – which is not a pub walk – takes place every Sunday morning at 10 am (guided by David) and every Wednesday afternoon at 2 pm (guided by Richard III or Peter). Same meeting point: just outside the exit of HampsteadTube.

Guided by Richard III or Peter G 

7.15 pm on Saturdays  
The walk in this Saturday evening time slot changes weekly.
For details see the following list.

DATE	WALK	STATION
May 25	The London by Gaslight Pub Walk	EmbankmentTube
June 1	The Old Chelsea Village Pub Walk	Sloane SquareTube
June 8	Secret St. James' The Old Palace Quarter Pubby Perambulation	Green ParkTube Green Park exit
June 15	Rock 'n' Roll London The Pub Walk	Tottenham Court RoadTube exit 3
June 22	The London by Gaslight Pub Walk	EmbankmentTube
June 29	The London of 007 Ian Fleming, James Bond & the "shaken not stirred" Pub Walk	Marble ArchTube exit 2
July  6	The Between the Kings' Sheets Pub Walk Frisky, Risky, Risque Royals	EmbankmentTube
July 13	The London Panorama Pub Walk & Boat Ride	Tower HillTube
July 20	The Literary London Pub Walk The Write Stuff in Old Bloomsbury	HolbornTube
July 27	TBA
Aug. 3	Backstairs Belgravia Byways, Hidden Haunts & Classic Pubs	Hyde Park CornerTube exit 3
Aug. 10	The "Somewhere Else" London Pub Walk	SouthwarkTube
Aug. 17	The Hitchcock & Holmes Pub Walk Movies, Mystery & the Master of Suspense	HolbornTube
Aug. 24	The Old Chelsea Village Pub Walk	Sloane SquareTube
Aug. 31	The Old Mayfair Pub Walk "the best address in London"	Green ParkTube north exit, on the corner
Sept. 7	The London by Gaslight Pub Walk	EmbankmentTube
Sept. 14	Bohemian Fitzrovia London's Old Latin Quarter	Goodge StreetTube
Sept. 21	The Old West End Pub Walk Conspiracy, Scandal & Skulduggery	Marble ArchTube exit 1
Sept. 28	In the Shadows of the Past Lost Lanes & Old Pubs off Regent Street	Piccadilly CircusTube exit 2
Oct. 5	The London of 007 Ian Fleming, James Bond & the "shaken not stirred" Pub Walk	Marble ArchTube exit 2
Oct. 12	The London by Gaslight Pub Walk	EmbankmentTube
Oct. 19	Gin City, Seven Deadly Dials, Slum of Slums  The Hidden West End Pub Walk	Tottenham Court RoadTube exit 3
Oct. 26	Haunted Wimbledon  A Halloween Season Ghosty Special ending in a Haunted Pub!	WimbledonTube
Nov. 2	TBA
Nov. 9	TBA
Nov. 16	Bohemian Fitzrovia The Old Latin Quarter Pub Walk	Goodge StreetTube
Nov. 23	TBA
Nov. 30	Backstairs Belgravia Byways, Hidden Haunts & Classic Pubs	Hyde Park CornerTube exit 3

7.30 pm on Saturdays
from St. Paul'sTube exit 2

"how easy it is to awaken the unwanted attention of things that should sleep quietly in their tombs or hiding places"

At night the ancient City is deserted – and eerie. Exploring its shadowy back streets and dimly lit alleys we might be in a medieval citadel, in overpowering stone. The very street names – Aldersgate, Cloth Fair, Charterhouse, Threadneedle – take us far back. We're alone...or are we? For this is the hour when the She Wolf of France glides through the churchyard, the hour when the dark figure on Newgate wall rattles his chains, the hour when the Black Nun keeps her lonely vigil, and something inexpressibly evil lurks behind a tiny window. We're on their trail – or are they shadowing us?

We've made a short film of this walk. Watch the Duke of Darkness in action and you'll see what we're on about when we cite that old English saying: "London Walks guides do it best". It's here.

And here's a "grab" – a bit of audio from the walk. It's Shaughan. His timing – let alone his range (he does three different voices in this brief extract) and his responsiveness to his audience – is a thing of wonder.

  In Shaughan's words: "The first walk I ever did, and the oldest.  2,000 years of life and death in one place. The City. Soaked in Souls – the Spirit of London. Tales of faith and Devilry – Murder and possession. Not just Folk tales, documented visitations from the Undiscovered Country.

Everything is older than it looks.
 
I too, am possessed from time to time – the Spirits come to me to tell their own tale......."

The Ghosts of the Old City Walk takes place
every Saturday at 7.30 pm
and every Tuesday at 7.30 pm

The meeting point is just outside exit 2 of St. Paul'sTube

Guided on Saturdays by Shaughan  or Adam
With his deathly pallor and swirling black cape Shaughan is "deliciously spooky!"  As the San Francisco Chronicle put it.

Guided on Tuesdays by Adam (yes, that Adam – the Shadow Walker. He of the spectral face like a lantern hanging down a dark alley).

7.30 pm every night except Dec. 24 & Dec. 25 
from Tower HillTube

Please tread carefully and
keep away from the shadows -
you are about to enter the abyss...

He came silently out of the midnight shadows of August 31, 1888. Watching. Stalking. Butchering raddled, drink-sodden East End prostitutes. Leaving a trail of blood that led...nowhere. Yes, something wicked this way walked, for this is the Ripper's slashing grounds. We evoke that autumn of gaslight and fog, of menacing shadows and stealthy footsteps as we inspect the murder sites, sift through the evidence - in all its gory detail - and get to grips, so to speak, with the main suspects. Afterward you can steady your nerves in The Ten Bells, the pub where the victims - perhaps under the steely gaze of the Ripper himself - tried to forget the waking nightmare. And for a pictorial or two, click here. And that's not to mention a very special little video trailer of the London Walks Jack the Ripper walk. To see it, click here.

And this is pretty neat: Adam's made a handy little video to help out anybody who's arrived late for the walk. It's called The Jack the Ripper Catch Up Film. If you arrive late and the walk's moved off, well, just get your cell phone out, bring up this page and click here and hey presto you'll be able to catch us up.

The Jack the Ripper Tour takes place
every single night* at 7.30 pm.

*Except December 24th and December 25th

Meet the guides just outside Tower HillTube.

N.B., on Saturdays there's also a Ripper "matinee".
It goes every* Saturday afternoon at 3 pm.

*Except when Saturday falls on December 24th or December 25th.

Tower HillTube is on the
Circle & District Lines

Guided by Steve on Saturday evenings
Guided by Donald on Sundays
Guided by Molly on Mondays
Guided by Molly on Tuesdays
Guided by Steve on Wednesdays
Guided by Shaughan and Adam on Thursdays
Guided by Donald or Shaughan on Fridays
Guided by Fiona or Peter on Saturday afternoons 

N.B., Let's call a spade a spade. Going on Donald Rumbelow's Jack the Ripper Tour is as close as you're going to get to nailing the Ripper. Donald is the author of the best-selling The Complete Jack the Ripper, the definitive book on the subject. He's been the chief consultant for every major television and film treatment of the Ripper for the last 20 years. In the words of The Jack to Ripper A to Z (the bible of Ripperology studies): "Donald Rumbelow is internationally recognised as the leading authority on the subject". The former Curator of the City of London Police Crime Museum and a two-time Chairman of the Crime Writers" Association, Donald is Britain's most distinguished crime historian. And I hasten add, he's not some dry-as-dust academic. He spent 25 years on the City of London Police Force – which in effect means you'll be taken over some of the most famous crime scenes in the world by a law enforcement professional. Oh and I almost forgot – he's also a professionally qualified Blue Badge Guide!

But a word of warning: never part with your money or set off with anyone until you're absolutely certain you're with Donald or – if it's another night – one of his London Walks colleagues. Donald (and co.) will be holding up copies of the distinctive white London Walks leaflet. And remember, Donald and his colleagues never ever start the Jack the Ripper Tour before 7.30 pm. In short, don't let anyone pull a fast one on you.