Monday's Walks
We are delighted to now be able to bring you selected walks – indicated below with a green tick.
Greyed out walks with a red cross are temporarily suspended but we hope to bring these back soon! Book to guarantee your place.
10 am
The Changing of the Guard Tour
Running
Piccadilly Circus Tube, meet by the Eros statue | Map
Guided by Rick Jones
“A great walk, loads of interesting facts about Haydn, an excellent friendly guide with the addition of a great singing voice. Highly recommended” Walker Brian
10.30 am
10.45 am
Darkest Victorian London
Running
Monument Underground station, London (Fish Street Hill exit)
Guided by Karen or Kim or Richard III or Sue
“Elsewhere is always surprising… ” “history as a seance” “Victorian underside of modern London”
10.45 am The Monday Tour du Jour (Click to expand)
| Date | Walk | Meeting Point | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2023 | 10.45 am |
The East India Company – Guided by a Distinguished Diplomat
Running
Monument Tube, Fish Street Hill exit | Map |
Monument Tube, Fish Street Hill exit |
| 1 May 2023 | 10.45 am |
Pirates, Press-Gangs and Execution Dock
Running
Tower Hill underground station, London (meet by the Tower Hill Tram coffee stand) | Map |
Tower Hill underground station, London (meet by the Tower Hill Tram coffee stand) |
11 am
The Seven Deadly Sins – the Capital Vices
Running
Covent Garden underground station, London
Guided by Ulrike
A historical tour de force of “the city built on sin” – “most entertaining walk ever”
2 pm
The Inns of Court
Running
Holborn underground station, London (main exit, debouches onto Kingsway)
Guided by Karen or Molly or Shaughan
Click to check dates this walk isn’t taking place
“like a clutch of Oxbridge colleges in the heart of London”
2.30 pm
A Village in Piccadilly
Running
Piccadilly Circus underground station, London (exit 4, Eros exit – between the world-famous Eros statue and the Criterion Restaurant canopy)
Guided by Adam or Claire or Karen or Richard B or Simon W.
“elegant arcades, secret doorways and peekaboo views”
“royal chocolates (we sample them, gratis)”
2.30 pm
2.30 pm
Quack Doctor's Tour
Running
The entrance to Southwark Cathedral
Guided by Rick Jones
“the general rule in medicine in Stuart England is ‘better out than in’”
2.30 pm The Monday Tour du Jour (Click to expand)
| Date | Walk | Meeting Point | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 May 2023 | 2.30 pm |
The Lost Palace of Downing Street
Running
Embankment underground station, London (river exit) | Map |
Embankment underground station, London (river exit) |
7 pm
Old Westminster by Gaslight
Running
Westminster Underground station, London (exit 4)
Guided by Delianne or Oliver or Peter G.
The great seminal London Walk. Miss it and you’ve missed London…
7.30 pm
Apparitions, Alleyways & Ale
Not Running
Embankment underground station, London (river exit) | Map
Guided by Peter G.
“this part of London is like a haunted house… gas-lit alleyways, film-set perfect Georgian streets”
7.30 pm
"The specials" - Additional tours on selected Monday (Click to expand)
| Date | Time | Walk | Meeting Point |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2023 | 6 pm |
The Nell Gwyn Special
Running
outside the defunct underground station Aldwych / Strand on the corner of Surrey Street and The Strand |
outside the defunct underground station Aldwych / Strand on the corner of Surrey Street and The Strand |
| 25 December 2023 | 11 am |
Christmas Morning, 1660 - Samuel Pepys' London
Running
Trafalgar Square |
Trafalgar Square |
| 25 December 2023 | 2 pm |
The Christmas Day Charles Dickens London Walk
Running
Trafalgar Square |
Trafalgar Square |