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
Old Marylebone
Saturday, 26 April 2025 @ 2 pm (This walk goes every Saturday)
"London specialises in hiding the best of itself..."
Bizarre London
Sunday, 27 April 2025 @ 2 pm (This walk goes every Sunday)
The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields – Riches to Rags
Sunday, 27 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Explores Spitalfields, chronicles the lives and times of the Huguenot silk weavers...
Darkest Victorian London
Monday, 28 April 2025 @ 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, 28 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Monday)
"this tiny hamlet serves up brimming draughts from the deep well of its history"
Spies' & Spycatchers' London
Saturday, 03 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"hole and corner, cloak and dagger London...the secret places of a murky nether-world"
Secret Islands of Green – Hidden Gardens of the City
Sunday, 04 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
The green in the grey – the hidden gardens of the City of London.
Kew Gardens in Springtime!
Sunday, 11 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Spring in Kew Gardens. Includes the newly opened, breathtakingly beautiful Temperate House.
Medieval London
Saturday, 24 May 2025 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"All things in life had about them something glitteringly and cruelly public. The lepers, shaking their rattles..."
The Great Melting Pot – Immigrants' London
Saturday, 31 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"the richest strand of all in the London tapestry"
Merrie Islington
Sunday, 01 June 2025 @ 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, world's oldest droving route, stuccoed terraces, bodacious buzz, major mojo...
Old Dulwich Village
Sunday, 15 June 2025 @ 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!
The Lost World of the River Fleet
London's second most important river...
The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields – Riches to Rags
Explores Spitalfields, chronicles the lives and times of the Huguenot silk weavers...
Spies' & Spycatchers' London
"hole and corner, cloak and dagger London...the secret places of a murky nether-world"
The Wallace Collection
A visual – and historical – feast...