This excursion will be back soon. In the meantime we’d be happy to organise a private tour for you. Please contact us on 020 7624 3978 | [email protected] to make a booking.
This excursion will be back soon. In the meantime we’d be happy to organise a private tour for you. Please contact us on 020 7624 3978 | [email protected] to make a booking.
London Bridge tube station, London
Guided by Kevin
Short read: Archaeology, Industry & Literature (guided by the distinguished emeritus Museum of London archaeologist and Curator Kevin Flude).
Long read: The area south of London Bridge is one of the most charismatic areas of London. It fascinated Charles Dickens who called it ‘the Borough’ and used it in many books. It was, for example, the home of the infamous Bill Sykes. On this walk we are going to explore the eastern half of the Borough, walking from the Tube Station along the River and then follow the route to the famous Monastery at Bermondsey. This route was one of London’s working-class areas, particularly leather workers and it has many traces of London’s extensive industrial heritage. Enroute we will visit a pub or two, and explore working-class lives before ending the tour at Barmsey Abbey, as Londoners called it. It was patronised by the Queen and became one of the most famous places in London. Some of the Ruins survive and still influences the street pattern. The tour will provide a history of Southwark since the Bronze Age as well as much more. And then there are a couple of great pubs.
To go on the London Bridge to Bermondsey walk meet Kevin just outside the Tooley Street exit of London BridgeTube Stop at xxxxxm on Sxxxxx.
“The original and best – there are several companies offering walking tours of London but London Walks (London’s oldest) is easily the pick of the bunch” London, Cadogan Guide
“Best Tourism Experience in London” Gold Medal Winner, Visit London
“If you want to know London better, if you want to learn some things about the world’s most cosmopolitan city that most people who spend their lives there never learn… I can think of no better investment than London Walks” The New York Times
If you can’t make one of the regularly scheduled, just-turn-up, public London Bridge to Bermondsey walks do think about booking one as a private tour. If you go private you can have the London Bridge to Bermondsey walk – or any other London Walk – on a day and at a time that suits your convenience. We’ll tailor it to your requirements. Ring Fiona or Peter or Niamh or Mary on 020 7624 3978 or email us at [email protected] and we’ll set it up and make it happen for you. A private London Walk – they’re good value for an individual or couple and sensational value for a group – makes an ideal group or educational or birthday party or office (team-building) or club outing.
A private London Walks makes a very special, thoughtful and unusual gift. Be it a birthday or anniversary or Christmas present or whatever. Merchandise schmerchandise (gift wrapped or not) – but giving someone an experience, now that’s special. Memories make us rich.
“If this were a golf tournament every name on the Leader Board would be a London Walks guide”