Recommended walks led by Blue Badge guide Mark King.
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For a taster of Mark’s walks, see these videos on Vimeo:
St. Bart’s the Great & Smithfield.
Transforming King’s Cross & St. Pancras.
In addition to his current programme of public walks Mark King also offers a wider range of private walks, visits and tours based on places and themes he has guided.
Any comments - or a suggestion for a London secret? Please e-mail me.
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Private tours are available at mutually convenient times throughout the year.
Please contact Mark about any of the ideas below or to discuss something tailored to your family or group’s specific interests.
AREAS:
Aldwych and Strand
Apsley House - Duke of Wellington's residence
Bankside – ‘Pleasure Houses, Playwrights, Priests and Panoramas’
Belgravia – ‘Neighbours to the Crown’
Bermondsey
Bloomsbury –‘Beautiful Squares, Intellectual Circles, Love Triangles’
Borough
British Museum – highlights tours; themed tours
Brixton
Chipping Barnet
Churchill War Rooms
City of London
- An Introduction to the City
- ‘Austin Friars: Monks, Merchants, Modern Architecture and (Hilary) Mantel’
- City of London’s Ceremonies and Pageantry
- City’s Business Institutions
- ‘Cornhill’s Alleys: Lord Mayors, Money and Markets’
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-‘Creatures of the City’
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-Fleet Street
- ‘Going Up! Modern Architecture of the City’
- Guildhall
- Guildhall Art Gallery and Heritage Gallery highlights or themed tours
- Livery Companies of the City
- ‘New Horizons: the City and the Age of Exploration’
- Public Art & Sculpture
- ‘Romans, Royals, Reformation and Wren’
- Wartime London: First and Second World Wars
Canary Wharf
Clerkenwell – ‘Following the Fleet River’
Covent Garden – ‘Creatures In the Garden’
Crossrail – ‘Tracking Crossrail Through Central London’
East End (Spitalfields, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green)
Finchley
Golders Green
Great Fires of London
Greenwich
Hampstead
Hampstead Garden Suburb
Hampstead – Modernist architecture
Hampton Court Palace
Highgate
Holland Park
Imperial War Museum
Jews in Norman London
Jewish London
Kenwood House
King’s Cross & St. Pancras – Regeneration
‘Lost’ rivers (e.g. Fleet, Walbrook)
Legal London
Museum of London in Docklands
National Gallery
Natural History Museum – highlights tours; themed tours
Paddington Basin
Pall Mall area
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park inc. regenerating Stratford and Bow
Re: birth and death (evening tour with pub stops)
Rotherhithe
Royal Courts of Justice
St Paul’s Cathedral
Science Museum – highlights tours; themed tours
Smithfield and St Bart’s the Great
Tate Modern – highlights tours; themed tours
Tower of London
Trafalgar Square
V&A – highlights tours; themed tours
Wapping – ‘Port, Pirates, Police, Press-gangs and Pubs’
Waterloo
Westminster
Westminster Abbey
Whitechapel
Whitehall
Windsor Castle
World War One - central London; suburbs; air-raids
THEMES:
American links
Architecture
Art Galleries
Brunels, Science & Society
Churchill’s London
City of London Ceremonies
‘Creatures’ (a specific area interpreted through animals depicted on its streets and buildings)
Crossrail
Dickens’ London
Empire links
Jewish London
Legal London
Lost Rivers
Postal history
Public Art & Sculpture
Pubs
Roman Londinium
Royal London (also Windsor Castle, Hampton Ct. Palace, Greenwich)
Saxon Lundenwic
Sport and London
Transport
Tudors
Wellington’s London
World War One (see also www.WorldWarOneWalks.com)
World War Two
Hampton Court Palace
City of London
Kenwood House
Livery Companies
Brunel Museum
Mark King’s London Quiz book is now available:
The Blue Badge Guide's London Quiz Book
