London Walks
London Walks is the oldest urban walking tour company on the planet. It’s the gold standard of this profession, this craft. Here you can listen to our guides' stories and anecdotes of London.
Bow Street – the Young Dancer
But she’s also eternally young and in London, just over the way from Royal Opera House where she was a royal ballerina.
A young woman’s death by hanging
the past is a lighthouse, not a port
A building very important in English history
"he was paralytically drunk"
What happened today changed world history
"the notorious bankrupt and womaniser who was tried for treason"
Let’s go to Kensington!
"it's every bit as bewitching as the Bridge of Sighs itself"
Fundamentals, Wimbledon, etc.
the first-ever Wimbledon champion was also the father of the volley.
Bow Street
"then we see it, the most terrifying sight we'll ever see"
This is London – Gay Pride, Wimbledon, Kneecap & Trams
“the tramcar was very nicely arranged with chairs and pink cushions"
This one’s personal
"doing one-hand handstands"
Karen guiding in the National Portrait Gallery
"looking at a portrait transcends time"
London on July 4, 1776
General Howe had no choice but to put the torch to New York City
The book burning
Wars don't end when they end
Constitution Hill is London’s grassy knoll
The world has raised its whip. Where will it descend?
July & Julius Caesar and Robert & Rotherhithe
Married in July with flowers ablaze
London Nightlife
100 years ago nobody was doing a better job of telling the London story
She had 200 lovers
"She was popularly known as 'Lady Randy'"
The Monument
The Monument is a 17th century skyscraper
Theatre Director and Novelist
"in fact colour were vibrant in the late Victorian age"
Pied Piper Day
"they fought the dogs and killed the cats"
Gamechanger! David guides the charge of the Light Brigade
"How did three titled dunderheads get to be in charge of an army?"
Gamechanger – David G., the platonic ideal of a great guide
"I started guiding before I finished lawyering"
Midsummer Eve
"you could make yourself invisible"
Laurie lives in Florida but she’s a Londoner
"there's always a bit of wistfulness. Laurie misses London"
The Albany – you’re not in Kansas any more
"the most interesting street in London"
The Complete Works of Shakespeare will never look the same
think of each one of those 800,000 words as the life of a young soldier or officer
“Sexual intercourse makes your teeth fall out”
"look, there’s the football coach in the chair getting a buzz cut for his palms"
I wear purple
"You have to wash your mouth out with carbolic"
“Power is my mistress”
he blacked out when he ejaculated
Why go on the Mrs Dalloway’s London Walk?
The walk explores the London of 1923
All About June 8th
bye bye influencers, hello Goths
Stewart’s Scoop!
"we had images of glaring demons with horns sprouting from their heads"
London on D-Day
"those wounds are nicks in a living oak"
Mrs Dalloway – The Centenary Walk – Limited Edition
“There is only one recipe – to care a great deal for the cookery.”
Lonely in London, two human skulls, a jar of bull’s sperm…
Item: two human skulls in a bag. Item: a jar of bull’s sperm
Roses, Spies, Roman Goddesses, Peacocks, Poetry…
it gets a big dodgy here. Juno wasn’t just Jupiter’s wife. She was also his sister.
Laurie from Florida, heroes & human sacrifices
"a hero was one who urinated standing up"
Celebrity Cats, Jerry the Gentleman Cat, etc. – Advancer for Ann’s Cat Tails Walk
Every cat owner secretly knows if it were big enough their treasured companion would have them for lunch
All changed, changed utterly
both were kneeling beside the bed and were naked
“My life – it’s a long disease”
Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these!
Meet the Prince of Paradox
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see”
