Virtual Tours of London – Bring a London Walk Home
Virtual Tours
The Lockdowns of 2020 had an unexpected side effect. Unable to show people around in the usual way, out in the streets, London Walks’ guides adapted and expanded their material into virtual format. This became not only a way of continuing to work, but a way of reaching people all over the world who have an interest in London. Since then, the virtual tours continue to be joined by ‘walkers’ who don’t know London but want to discover it; people who haven’t been to London in a while but would like to revisit it; others who, for various reasons, can’t attend a walk in person; and some who missed a particular walk last time round but now have a chance to sample it from home. London Walks has welcomed virtual walkers from the United States, Canada, India, Japan, Australia and Europe to share in the joy of discovering more of the infinite stories of London.
To go on a London Walks Virtual Guided Tour just click through to the Eventbrite link and register. Cometh the hour we’ll all gather round the Zoom ‘fireplace’ and off we’ll go. Into London at its fascinating best. An online tour lasts about an hour. It’s interactive, there’s Q & A afterward and, more often than not, some socialising (people from all over the world are round that ‘online fireplace’).
Ok, that’s enough lead-in, enough drum roll. Here. We. Go.
Sherlock Holmes - Virtual Tour
Sunday, 23 March 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
'The Game's Afoot!' Follow the fascinating adventures of Holmes and Watson (and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) around London's West End. Guided by Richard IV
Agatha Christie & Dorothy L. Sayers – the Virtual Tour
Sunday, 30 March 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
On the trail of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Lord Peter Wimsey... Guided by Richard IV
Chaucer's London to Beckett's Canterbury – a Virtual Pilgrimage
Friday, 18 April 2025 @ 7.30 pm
"the robust independence with which the English led their lives following the Black Death"
CHARLES DICKENS’ LONDON: LOST AND FOUND: a London Walks virtual tour
Sunday, 27 April 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
"Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvelous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer"
Alfred Hitchcock in London – Virtual Tour
Sunday, 11 May 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
The Master of Suspense worked with many great stars, and here we visit one of his all-time favourites: London! Guided by Richard IV
P G Wodehouse in London - Virtual Tour
Sunday, 25 May 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
On the trail of Jeeves, Bertie Wooster, Lord Emsworth and many other classic Wodehouse characters in Mayfair and Piccadilly. Guided by Richard IV
Sherlock Holmes Saves the Nation!
Sunday, 08 June 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Sherlock Holmes Saves the Nation! The world of the Diogenes Club in Westminster and St James's. Guided by Richard IV
Spies & Spymasters of London – Virtual Tour
Sunday, 15 June 2025 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Top Secret London. Cambridge Five. ‘C’. Secret Service Bureau. OSS & SOE. Le Carré & Smiley. Somerset Maugham & Ashenden. Guided by Richard IV For Your Eyes Only.