London Virtual Tours
London Walks is back. Back guiding. Back walking. Back exploring London. Doing what we do. Doing it both live and in a somewhat different form than “before.”
2020 put us, London Walks guides to the test but neither the pandemic nor the lockdown stopped us doing from doing our thing – guiding London. The virtual walking tours available here are the best way to visit London from the comfort of your living room. We will take you further than the simple Google street view, we will show you London though Londoner’s eyes and explore the hidden gems and history London has to offer.
To attend any of these, please click through to the Eventbrite link where you will be able to register. The ‘walk’ will then take place using Zoom and will last around 1 hour.
Ok, that’s enough lead-in, enough drum roll. Here. We. Go.
Musical Kensington – Virtual Tour
01 October 2020 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
David: "this one's guided by Adam, the only human being I know who talks like a well-written magazine article." Adam: "I doubt there’s a Spotify algorithm to unify the artists we’ll cover – but cover them we most certainly will. All music is here in Kensington!"
Along The Thames - Virtual Tour
02 October 2020 @ 5 pm (Click here for more dates)
“The most exciting walk in London… Does more to interpret the city than anything else, a real skeleton key” (Ian Nairn). “If you only have time for one walking tour, this is the one to go on – it’s the classic London walk” (David, of London Walks).
Jack the Ripper Virtual Tour
02 October 2020 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Something wicked this way walked. You will be taken there. You will return having undergone a harrowing experience.
The Magic of London - Virtual Tour
03 October 2020 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Watch the video. It’s a small miracle – works wonders in 154 seconds. It’s an utterly charming introduction to our Virtual Tours generally and to this walk specifically. It's the handiwork of Magic of London guide Richard Walker. So it’s a chance to meet Richard. And let him tell you a little bit about the Magic of London tour – what it is and how it works. Let him show you a bit of it: magical landmarks, Tower Bridge, the London Eye, secret passageways you won’t have heard of, etc.
P G Wodehouse in London - Virtual Tour
04 October 2020 @ 3 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.
Kensington Sights & Sounds – Virtual Tour
04 October 2020 @ 4 pm (Click here for more dates)
"if you understand this one house in Kensington you understand London." And you get a free £9.99 gift.
Bath – Romans to Georgian Virtual Tour
04 October 2020 @ 5 pm (Click here for more dates)
Discover the beautiful City of Bath, from its Roman remains to its spectacular Georgian architecture.
Sherlock Holmes - Virtual Tour
04 October 2020 @ 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.
The Thames from Hampton Court to Kew – Virtual Tour
05 October 2020 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
Three palaces, two stately homes and one very special river...
East London Street Art – Virtual Tour
05 October 2020 @ 8 pm (Click here for more dates)
A virtual walking tour of this exciting corner of the capital to discover the very best street art in London
London Shopping, Historical Retail Therapy – Virtual Tour
07 October 2020 @ 4 pm (Click here for more dates)
World-class history and retail therapy all rolled up into one...
Pink Floyd in London - Virtual Tour
08 October 2020 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Pigs WILL fly as we hit Regent Street Polytechnic, Battersea, Tottenham Court Road, Covent Garden in search of the band’s genesis and 1970s pomp.
Agatha Christie & Dorothy L. Sayers – the Virtual Tour
10 October 2020 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
On the trail of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Lord Peter Wimsey
Alfred Hitchcock in London - Virtual Tour
11 October 2020 @ 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!
Old Westminster - Virtual Tour
14 October 2020 @ 4 pm (Click here for more dates)
This tour will take you in and around the streets of Westminster, by Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. Discover the Mecca of politicians throughout the ages and the place where kings and queens are crowned then laid to rest. Take a sneak peak into 10 Downing street, the home of the Prime Minister and where important meetings happen – the cabinet room
Musical Marylebone – Virtual Tour
15 October 2020 @ 7.30 pm
Medicine and cricket… that's Marylebone. Isn't it? Where showbiz and performing arts types are elbowed off centre stage by nurses, doctors and sportsmen. This tour puts the musicians back where they belong.
Spies & Spymasters of London – Virtual Tour
18 October 2020 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
The Cambridge Five. The first ‘C’. The origins of the Secret Service Bureau. Wartime heroes and heroines of the OSS and SOE. Somerset Maugham and Ashenden. Le Carré and Smiley. The secret heart of their London.
London Archaeology – Virtual Tour
21 October 2020 @ 5 pm (Click here for more dates)
The Roman settlement of the 1st and 2nd century AD offers up amazing remains at every turn: from the ruins of the amphitheatre lying beneath the City’s art gallery, to the sections of the Roman boundary wall revealed by Second World War bomb damage.
What Lies Beneath – the Archaeology of Crossrail Virtual Tour
21 October 2020 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
"What gruesome discovery had to make way for a new ticketing hall?"
One Westminster, Six Palaces – The Virtual Tour
21 October 2020 @ 7 pm
One Westminster, six palaces and a thousand years of monarchs
Bob Dylan in London Virtual Tour
22 October 2020 @ 7.30 pm
Yes and how many London streets must a man walk down…
Theatreland
24 October 2020 @ 8 pm
St. Paul's Cathedral – Virtual Tour
25 October 2020 @ 4 pm (Click here for more dates)
Discover the wonders of this magnificent cathedral on this London Walks Virtual Tour of Christopher Wren’s baroque masterpiece
Ghosts of the Old City – Virtual Tour
25 October 2020 @ 7.30 pm
Ghosts of the Old City Virtual Tour every Saturday. Book it here.
Spooky Radio Nite Halloween Music Special – Virtual Tour
29 October 2020 @ 7.30 pm
Music, monsters & murder. No tricks: it's ALL treat. Don't worry – it'll all be done in the worst possible taste!
Guy Fawkes – Remember, Remember the 5th of November
05 November 2020 @ 7 pm
Musical St. James' & Mayfair – Virtual Tour
05 November 2020 @ 7.30 pm
From high baroque to Bowie's most famous album sleeve...
Handel in London – Virtual Tour
12 November 2020 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
What does English history sound like?
Mozart in London – Virtual Tour
19 November 2020 @ 7.30 pm
the life, the career, the London of history’s most mythologised composer
The Lure of the Underground - Virtual Tour
25 November 2020 @ 7 pm
Join award winning London Walks guide Fiona Lukas to discover the secrets of the oldest underground railway in the world We'll talk about the early days and how the network developed. Then we'll "visit" various stations, and other locations. Looking for little details you may otherwise not notice, to tell a host of other stories, encompassing engineering, design, architecture and social history.
Beatlemania – The Virtual Tour
26 November 2020 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
“The scene” is Beatlemania-struck London. We go there. We "get back" (doubly so if you're of a certain vintage) – get taken there. To the venues – to where it all went down. Hang with the Fabs.
A Dickens Christmas
11 December 2020 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Last Christmas London Music Special – Virtual Tour
20 December 2020 @ 7.30 pm
A Christmas stocking of delights: a musical tour of Christmas; West End history, its hidden places & hidden places; film locations in the movie Last Christmas.
The Big London Music Quiz – Virtual Tour
04 January 2021 @ 7.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Jimi Hendrix in London – Virtual Tour
07 January 2021 @ 7.30 pm
For Jimi Hendrix the wind whispered London. Here he could ride the breeze. Here he made it big.
MUSICAL COVENT GARDEN VIRTUAL TOUR
10 January 2021 @ 7.30 pm
400 years of musical history and "goings-on" – Thomas Arne to Franz Zappa. When you walked down these streets did you debate the whys and wherefores of Rule Britannia? No? Then let's all go down the Strand!
Lionel Bart's London! – Virtual Tour
14 January 2021 @ 7.30 pm
He made and squandered a fortune.. and the Greek chorus of tabloid middle England thrilled to his Icarus fall.
Radio Days – the Science & Show Business Virtual Tour
28 January 2021 @ 7.30 pm
The science and show business virtual tour...
The Kinks in London – Virtual Tour
31 January 2021 @ 7.30 pm
Ready, Steady, Go…
5 years that changed the face of pop & rock 1964-69
4 of the unlikeliest pop stars of all-time
3 number one hits
2 warring brothers
1 unique story
Natural History Museum - Virtual Tour
04 February 2021 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
N.B. THIS ONE IS FAMILY FRIENDLY! BIG TIME!
Enter the stunning Natural History Museum to discover the Natural World from Dinosaurs and Jurassic Marine Reptiles to Hope the Blue Whale