Virtual Tours of London – Bring a London Walk Home
London Walks is back. Back guiding. Back discovering London. Back exploring it. Doing what we do. Doing it live but in a somewhat different form than “before.”
2020 (and early 2021) put us – London Walks guides – to the test but neither the Coronavirus nor the lockdown stopped us doing our thing: guiding London, showing it to people, showing them how to read it. The virtual walking tours available here are the best way to visit London from the comfort of your living room. We take you much further – drill down much deeper – than a simple, one-dimensional Google street view. Best of all it’s seeing London through the eyes of Londoners who are friendly, elite, world-class local guides. With our new live virtual tours, out tour guides have been able to give the London travel experience to people from all around the world in the midst of a pandemic and social distancing.
So let’s roll. Let’s visit London, the hotspots and beyond – from the crown jewels at the Tower of London to 10 Downing Street, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. From the Queen’s London residence, Buckingham Palace, to the Royal Albert Hall. Explore London – cruise the Thames from Tower Bridge to Westminster and Greenwich, skylark on the London Eye. Do a tour of the National Gallery and the British Museum and Natural History Museum. Hidden gems and history aplenty await us.
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.
Harry Potter's London
Saturday, 04 December 2021 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
P G Wodehouse in London - Virtual Tour
Saturday, 04 December 2021 @ 10 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, 05 December 2021 @ 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
Underground Overground – A Virtual Tour Series Exploring London by Tube
Sunday, 05 December 2021 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
The brand new Virtual Tour series from The Story of London team...
The Story of London Virtual tour Series - Tuesday Matinee Edition
Tuesday, 07 December 2021 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A series of eight Virtual Tours presented & curated by four top flight Blue Badge Tourist Guides- Simon W, Russell, Karen and Fiona
London A -Z ...A Virtual tour Series
Wednesday, 08 December 2021 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
An eight-part series of virtual tours… London From A-Z! Hosted by Adam, Fiona, Karen, Russell & Simon W.
Underground Overground – A Virtual Tour Series Exploring London by Tube (the matinee)
Thursday, 09 December 2021 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
The brand new Virtual Tour series from The Story of London team...
Across The Thames - Virtual Tour
Thursday, 09 December 2021 @ 6 pm
Take a tour along the Southbank of the Thames. We are going to Southwark. The part of London where anything necessary but nasty took place! Brothels, Theatres, Breweries, Prisons ... Guided by Chris
Musical Thames – A Virtual Tour
Thursday, 09 December 2021 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
A virtual tour from calypso to classical along London's famous river. Guided by Adam.
The London of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol
Saturday, 11 December 2021 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
An affectionate celebration of the real places behind this timeless classic. A revealing virtual tour of the City Dickens knew so well.
Roman London – An Archaeological & Literary Virtual Tour
Sunday, 12 December 2021 @ 7.30 pm
"the amazing archaeological discoveries of Roman London"
Sherlock Holmes & Conan Doyle at Christmas
Sunday, 12 December 2021 @ 10 pm (Click here for more dates)
An affectionate Yuletide offering from the glory days of the Great Detective and his creator.
The British Library: A Virtual Walk through the World's Collective Memory
Tuesday, 14 December 2021 @ 7 pm
Our tongue's cathedral is the British Library. Guided by Steve
Montmartre - a Village in the City
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 @ 7 pm
Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir lived here. Piaf sang on its streets. Toulouse- Lautrec immortalised its wicked nightlife- eternal Montmartre! Guided by Chris Spence.
Weird Tales from Paris
Saturday, 18 December 2021 @ 7 pm
Murders, mysteries, monsters and mayhem are on the menu as we reveal the underbelly of Paris in a place where nightmares meets reality. Guided by Chris Spence
The Twelve Days of Christmas – Yuletide, the Song, London
Sunday, 19 December 2021 @ 6 pm
A fun tour around London sites and attractions with a connection to the gifts sent in the famous festive song.
Christmas with Jane Austen Virtual London Tour
Sunday, 19 December 2021 @ 7.30 pm
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen devotee must be in want of this virtual tour"
Last Christmas – The Christmas Music Virtual Tour & Singalong
Tuesday, 21 December 2021 @ 7 pm
A Christmas stocking of delights: a musical tour of Christmas; West End history, its hidden places & film locations in the movie Last Christmas.
The Marais - a Pocket of Ancient Paris
Wednesday, 22 December 2021 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
The Marais is a rare survivor of the old Paris, dotted with17th century mansions, steeped in history and with a buzzing Jewish quarter. Guided by Chris Spence
Following in the Footsteps of Matthew Shardlake
Wednesday, 29 December 2021 @ 7 pm
We rediscover those ‘lost’ streets like a Tudor Rebus cutting through ‘the religious and political chaos of the 1540s with sinister élan’ Guided by Andy
Beatlemania – The Virtual Tour
Saturday, 01 January 2022 @ 4 pm
SPECIAL TOUR CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF THE BEATLES The anniversary of the famous Decca audition audition 1st January 1962 From a wintry Trafalgar Square in 1961 to Buckingham Palace in 1965 this upbeat virtual tour charts the rise and rise of The Fab Four against the backdrop of London in the Swinging Sixties. Guided by Adam
Ring in the New Year Virtual Tour
Sunday, 02 January 2022 @ 7.30 pm
How London has celebrated the New Year over the past 2000 years – and some crystal ball action for 2021
Handel in London – Virtual Tour
Tuesday, 04 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
"What does English history sound like?" Guided by Adam
Graveyards to die for
Wednesday, 05 January 2022 @ 7 pm
"it was a rat's delight and a health emergency"
Musical Marylebone – Virtual Tour
Thursday, 06 January 2022 @ 11 am
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.
Musical Covent Garden Virtual Tour
Thursday, 06 January 2022 @ 7 pm
400 years of musical history and "goings-on" – Thomas Arne to Franz Zappa. You have often walked down these streets before… but did you debate the whys and wherefores of Rule Britannia? No? Then let's all go down the Strand!
An Edinburgh Guidebook – Virtual Tour
Saturday, 08 January 2022 @ 5 pm
An eccentric, esoteric, highly personal virtual tour of Edinburgh by a London tour guide
London on Film Part 1: Frozen in Time in the Square Mile
Saturday, 08 January 2022 @ 10 pm (Click here for more dates)
The old City of London has been a haven for moviemakers for over a century, and here are some of the glorious highlights. Guided by Richard IV
Agatha Christie & Dorothy L. Sayers – the Virtual Tour
Sunday, 09 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
On the trail of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and Lord Peter Wimsey... Guided by Richard IV
The Who In London – A Virtual Tour
Monday, 10 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
The Stones had the swagger. The Beatles had the tunes. The Yardbirds had the chops. But the only band to blend these basics with a full-blown artistic manifesto and a killer look was The Who.
This is The Who's London. Guided by Adam
Musical Chelsea
Tuesday, 11 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
London Calling! The Story Of London Through Its Music… Guided by Adam In Chelsea we meet: The Rolling Stones, Judy Garland, Arthur Sullivan, Bohemian London, Marianne Faithfull, King Charles II and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Bob Dylan in London Virtual Tour
Wednesday, 12 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Bob Dylan in 1960 London – three visits that changed the course of popular culture
Musical Kensington – Virtual Tour
Thursday, 13 January 2022 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
"All music is here in Kensington!"
Pink Floyd in London - Virtual Tour
Friday, 14 January 2022 @ 6 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.
Lionel Bart's London! – Virtual Tour
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 @ 7 pm
In search of the composer of Oliver! He made and squandered a fortune.. and the Greek chorus of tabloid middle England thrilled to his Icarus fall.
Musical St. James' & Mayfair – Virtual Tour
Thursday, 20 January 2022 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
Madness performing on top of Buckingham Palace alongside the Queen guitarist Brian May… Mick Jagger at the Ritz… FDR and the first political campaign song… Paul Simon, Handel & Nipper The Dog. They’re all in Musical St James’s & Mayfair…
Judy – In Search Of Judy Garland In London
Friday, 21 January 2022 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
Blending scenes from Judy Garland's life in Chelsea, Marylebone & the West End with locations from the Rene Zellweger movie. Guided by Adam
Jimi Hendrix in London – Virtual Tour
Monday, 24 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
For Jimi Hendrix the wind whispered London. Here he could ride the breeze. Here he made it big.
Musical Camden – The Virtual Tour
Tuesday, 25 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
A virtual tour of musical Camden from Britpop to Cecil sharp and beyond. Guided by Adam.
Musical Hampstead – A Virtual Tour
Wednesday, 26 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
A virtual tour of musical Hampstead from classical to rock. Guided by Adam.
Musical Belgravia & Westminster – A Virtual Tour
Thursday, 27 January 2022 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A virtual tour from Noel Coward to Henry Purcell, Guided by Adam.
The Kinks in London – Virtual Tour
Monday, 31 January 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Ready, Steady, Go… Guided by Adam
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
Spooky Radio Nite Halloween Music Special – Virtual Tour
Thursday, 27 October 2022 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Music, monsters & murder. No tricks: it's ALL treat. Don't worry – it'll all be done in the worst possible taste!