Tours
We add new tours almost daily. Our talented and qualified guides provide a variety of tours that cover a wide range of subjects. You can also choose your own date and time for any of the tours you see on our website by booking it as a private tour.
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Rob Smith (guide details)
Thu 18 Apr 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Hertfordshire is one of England's smaller counties, but it has lots to see, and all within easy reach of London. This virtual tour will give you inspiration for country walks in bluebell woods, and old pubs near ancient churches.
Sat 20 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Stories of love, crime, bravery and friendship from Clerkenwell's Italian Community 1820-1950
Thu 25 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Stories of love, crime, bravery and friendship from Clerkenwell's Italian Community 1820-1950
Fri 26 Apr 2:30 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A tour about things underground - crypts, vaults, cellars and of course the London Underground
Sat 27 Apr 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk following the River Lea through Hertfordshire, visiting the site where Julius Caesar is claimed to have fought an epic battle against the Catuvellauni
Fri 3 May 2:00 pm
Sat 4 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Tenth in a series of walks along the Thames, this walk looks at the Bauhaus inspired Bata shoe factory built in the 1930s with a surrounding village for workers. The walk then passes Coalhouse Fort for a walk along an isolated part of the Thames to Mucking Flats, where you'll see many birds along the foreshore.
Wed 8 May 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A look at the best buildings in London Borough of Hounslow, including Osterley House, Syon House and Chiswick House as well as some impressive industrial buildings and modern business parks. Part of a series looking at the best buildings in each London Borough
Thu 9 May 8:00 pm
Sat 11 May 1:30 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Following the River Lea on its journey through Hertfordshire, including the pretty estate at Brockett Hall
Sun 12 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk from Peckham to Elephant and Castle winding our way around London's famous cheapest property on the board
Wed 15 May 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A virtual tour around the diamond shaped island that has everything from Roman mosaics to rare telephone boxes. You'll see why the Isle of Wight is a favorite place for Rob, and some of the less well known places on the island to visit
Sat 18 May 1:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk along the Stour Estuary in Essex, looking at the links with Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, Mistley Quay a site of shipbuilding in the 18th century, and remains of a Robert Adams church.
Mon 20 May 2:30 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A tour about things underground - crypts, vaults, cellars and of course the London Underground
Sat 25 May 2:00 pm
Sun 26 May 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A look at the best buildings in London Borough of Brent including the domestic buildings of Metroland, old churches and Wembley Stadium. Part of a series looking at the best buildings in each London Borough
Tue 28 May 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Exploring old dry docks, store houses and chimneys that made up the Royal Navy's Woolwich Dockyard
Wed 29 May 5:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A food history of Islington from the dairy farms of Medieval London to Italian ice cream parlours
Sat 1 Jun 1:00 pm
Sun 2 Jun 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Part of a series looking at the best buildings in each London Borough. Barking and Dagenham is home to the ruins of medieval Barking Abbey, historic Valence House and beautiful Eastbury Manor House and lots of other interesting buildings too.
Mon 3 Jun 2:00 pm
Wed 5 Jun 5:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk about some of the many people who featured in the paintings of John Singer Sargent, visiting places they lived and worked
Sat 8 Jun 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
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Sun 9 Jun 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A virtual staycation in one of England's largest counties. From the splendour of Lincoln Cathedral to the rolling hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds, visiting historic castles and pretty market towns on the way, you'll see why Lincolnshire is such a great place to visit
Mon 10 Jun 11:00 am
Mon 10 Jun 8:00 pm
Tue 11 Jun 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk through the West End looking at the lives of some of the people painted by the artist Thomas Gainsborough. You can see some of the paintings in the National Gallery - but who were the people in the paintings? And how did they fit into the complex world of Georgian politics and society.
Sat 22 Jun 2:00 pm
Sun 23 Jun 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: London owes so much to Joseph Bazalgette - the sewer system, bridges, roads. Hear about his projects and where you can find them in this virtual tour
Tue 25 Jun 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: The pretty village of Otford in Kent is home to a mind blowing model of the solar system set out around the village. Come and walk the country footpaths on the way to Pluto, and see some historic medieval buildings on the way
Mon 1 Jul 2:00 pm
Sat 6 Jul 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
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Mon 8 Jul 2:30 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A tour about things underground - crypts, vaults, cellars and of course the London Underground
Sat 20 Jul 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
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Tue 30 Jul 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk around the Garden City that was built as a response to the ideas of social reformer Ebenezer Howard, and was a forerunner of many other schemes like Hampstead Garden Suburb
Sat 3 Aug 2:00 pm
Sun 22 Sep 8:00 pm
Sun 29 Sep 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: This Virtual Tour hosted on Zoom is about Castles that you can visit that are a short journey from London. Some still have substantial remains, some are more like bumps in the ground, but all have a story attached. Rob will talk about the sieges, the royal residents and treacherous deeds that took place in them.
Mon 30 Sep 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Sixth in a series of walks East along the Thames, this walk looks at the industrial area of Dagenham Dock. Home to London's first aircraft factory, the Ford works and a fertiliser plant, the area is now being transformed into Barking Riverside. The walk ends at the lost village of Creekmouth.
Sat 5 Oct 11:00 am
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk around what was once a huge military base, looking at the remaining historic buildings. The walk ends near the Chatham Historic Dockyard Museum
Sun 6 Oct 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A virtual tour about some of the people the artist John Singer Sargent painted - including, poets, generals, actresses, writers, politicians and womens suffrage campaigners
Sat 19 Oct 2:00 pm
Thu 5 Dec 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Christmas tradidions evolve in Georgian London - masked balls, twelth cake and celebrations on St Nicholas Day
Thu 19 Dec 8:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: Readings from the local newspapers of the 1870s illustrate how Christmas was reinvented by the Victorians. Hear about Christmas in islington from wealthy shoppers to Christmas Day in the workhouse
Sat 21 Dec 2:00 pm
Your guide: Rob Smith
Description: A walk looking at how Christmas was celebrated between 1840-70 with readings from the Islington local newspapers of the time. What was on at Collins Music Hall? What did the Boot Black Brigade have for Christmas dinner? And what was Christmas in the workhouse like?
