Category: Art & Architecture

This walk, takes you through the back streets and lanes of Bankside (Southwark) to look at how homes for the poor and rich have changed through the centuries. In the...

The coming of the Railways to London brought jobs, prosperity and the opportunity to travel. But many homes were devoured to accommodate the new railway stations, their tracks and coal...

Like marmite, the architectural “Brutalism” of the Barbican is not to ever one’s taste. However, whatever your opinion most commentators agree that this housing development, in the City of...

Anti-social behaviour, binge drinking, debt, poverty and a lack of good affordable housing are headaches for to-day’s policy makers, but the Victorian social reformer Octavia Hill was grappling with the...

Octavia Hill (1838-1912) was a remarkable Victorian woman who improved the lives of thousands of families living in the squalid slums of London. She worked all over the capital but...

From Art Deco and Brutalist architecture and the rise of modernism, we will see statues of our most celebrated Londoners alongside psychedelic street art. This art and architecture and sculpture...

Since the 19th century, the art and artists of Camden Town have always been edgy. This walk will reveal where these artists lived and the streets, pubs and theatres...

With three of Britain's tallest towers, Canary Wharf is one of London's grandest commercial districts. Discover the heroic architecture and street art of an area that was once at...

Spitalfields has attracted street artists from all over the world and London's graffiti has become just as much of an attraction as its art galleries. We will discover the...