Sue
Sue is a Freeman of the City of London, a botanist and a water-colourist. She’s an expert on the Fleet River and a professionally qualified Blue Badge and City of London Guide. She wrote the Life in the Mediaeval City chapter in our book. She guides many London Walks, ranging from Kew Gardens to the Fleet River to Bizarre London (her tour de force) and points beyond. But no need to just take it from me. Why not lend Sue an ear? Here’s a delightful little podcast she did about her Bizarre London walk.
All of Sue's Walks
The Great Melting Pot – Immigrants' London
Sunday, 28 June 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"the richest strand of all in the London tapestry"
The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields – Riches to Rags
Sunday, 28 June 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Explores Spitalfields, chronicles the lives and times of the Huguenot silk weavers...
Darkest Victorian London
Monday, 29 June 2026 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Monday)
"Elsewhere is always surprising... " "history as a seance" "Victorian underside of modern London"
London's Secret Village
Monday, 29 June 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Monday)
"this tiny hamlet serves up brimming draughts from the deep well of its history"
Victoria & Albert Museum Tour
Friday, 03 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Friday)
"it's not what we see but what we see in it"
The National Gallery Guided Tour
Friday, 03 July 2026 @ 2.15 pm (This walk goes every Friday)
“the story of European art, masterpiece by masterpiece”
Old Marylebone
Saturday, 04 July 2026 @ 2 pm (This walk goes every Saturday)
"London specialises in hiding the best of itself..."
Kew Gardens in Springtime!
Sunday, 05 July 2026 @ 10.45 am
Spring in Kew Gardens. Includes the newly opened, breathtakingly beautiful Temperate House.
Spies' & Spycatchers' London
Saturday, 11 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"hole and corner, cloak and dagger London...the secret places of a murky nether-world"
Merrie Islington
Sunday, 12 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Antiques market, trendy restaurants, London's most important fringe theatre, famous names, Regent's Canal, village green, stuccoed terraces, bodacious buzz, major mojo...
The Wallace Collection – the Jewel in the Velvet Box
Thursday, 16 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A visual – and historical – feast...
The Lost World of the River Fleet
Saturday, 18 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
London's second most important river...
Medieval London
Sunday, 19 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"All things in life had about them something glitteringly and cruelly public. The lepers, shaking their rattles..."
Old Dulwich Village
Sunday, 09 August 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Dulwich is a world – a hamlet – unto itself. There's no other place like it in London. Be sure to bring your camera.
Other walks in Sue's repertoire.
They run occasionally as 'Specials' but can also be booked privately.
The Secret Village Pub Walk
Pubs that are what pubs should be – traditional, time-honoured, hearts of oak!
Merrie Islington
Antiques market, trendy restaurants, London's most important fringe theatre, famous names, Regent's Canal, village green, stuccoed terraces, bodacious buzz, major mojo...
Medieval London
"All things in life had about them something glitteringly and cruelly public. The lepers, shaking their rattles..."
Secret Islands of Green – Hidden Gardens of the City
The green in the grey – the hidden gardens of the City of London.
The Wallace Collection – the Jewel in the Velvet Box
A visual – and historical – feast...
Old Dulwich Village
Dulwich is a world – a hamlet – unto itself. There's no other place like it in London. Be sure to bring your camera.
Spies' & Spycatchers' London
"hole and corner, cloak and dagger London...the secret places of a murky nether-world"