Charlie, a City of Westminster qualified guide, has been matured by 50 years of London living. He illuminates the underbelly of the city’s past with a passion for its people and how they got places. Put him on a canal towpath and you’ll be gliding into its history. Mention horses and he’ll trot you back to a city of mews and manure.
And special places? Catch him in the Olympic park to get the ‘knowledge’ of his years of work on the project. This is guiding with an enthusiasm that will infect you.
Sunday, 13 July 2025 @ 2.30 pm
It’s a terrible story, it’s a moving story, it will grip you.
Saturday, 16 August 2025 @ 10.45 am
Whoa! Wow! Peekaboo HS2 & Javelin
Sunday, 17 August 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"a place of poverty and political exiles and refugees and revolutionaries"
Thursday, 28 August 2025 @ 10.45 am
"he was so angry he ended up sculpting a horse urinating"
Saturday, 06 September 2025 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
This is it. The start line of an epic journey across the capital...
Saturday, 06 September 2025 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
a land London left behind
Wednesday, 10 September 2025 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
the green lane still weaves through the old field pattern
Wednesday, 10 September 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
thank the pioneers of Garden Cities for this walk
Sunday, 14 September 2025 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
walking through the gate of the Hill Garden could astonish you
Sunday, 14 September 2025 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
enjoy the pavement cafes of Primrose Hill before climbing to that view at the summit
Saturday, 20 September 2025 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
work the passageways till you burst onto New Bond Street with its centuries of high-end spend
Saturday, 20 September 2025 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
from a palace on the north bank it is time to cross to a shoreline once thick with factories on the south
Wednesday, 24 September 2025 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
Wednesday, 24 September 2025 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
the estate that shaped this slice of south London
Sunday, 28 September 2025 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
the 1851 Great Exhibition had an after-party, it’s called Crystal Palace Park
Sunday, 28 September 2025 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
rewilding isn’t so new - here’s a wonderful wilderness
Saturday, 04 October 2025 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
it’s a steep climb up Addington Hill, but the payback is a panorama of London spread before you
Saturday, 04 October 2025 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
through Selsdon Wood and you’re through with London, Surrey is beaming at you, beckoning...
Saturday, 04 October 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"from the deep past to a vision of the future"
Saturday, 18 October 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"with a space-age American embassy tucked in behind it"
Wednesday, 12 November 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
a chance to get up close to a lifestyle that’s often mythologized but rarely examined
Saturday, 15 November 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Phwoar! Wrong side of the Westminster tracks – crime, grime and where the bodies are buried
Saturday, 29 November 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"how much horsepower each bus route needed – amazing eye-opener into a lost city"
Saturday, 06 December 2025 @ 10.45 am
"Marylebone – a magnet for so many inspiring women"
Saturday, 03 January 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
How a capital city emerged fit to rule the greatest empire the world had ever known...
"it was a rat's delight and a health emergency"
How a capital city emerged fit to rule the greatest empire the world had ever known...
a chance to get up close to a lifestyle that’s often mythologized but rarely examined
"a place of poverty and political exiles and refugees and revolutionaries"
"more about those forgotten than those remembered"
Phwoar! Wrong side of the Westminster tracks – crime, grime and where the bodies are buried
"how much horsepower each bus route needed – amazing eye-opener into a lost city"
"with a space-age American embassy tucked in behind it"
an eye-opener exploring the centuries of struggle between the force of the river and the city’s determination to control and embank it
"most of what has passed has left plenty of traces"