Wednesday Walks
DECEMBER, 2025 - FEBRUARY, 2026
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month where we will introduce you to hidden corners of London and tell you some of London's best stories.
There is no need to book for these tours, just turn up and pay the guide £15 on the day. It would, however, help the guide if you could email in advance if you expect to attend - also let us know if you change your mind!
WEDNESDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 2025 -17.30 NO CHARGE
Christmas in Covent Garden
Your Guide: WLWU Team
Our walk will take us on a loop around and through the Covent Garden piazza - on the way we'll find a Mercer's Maid, a tree dedicated to Anne Frank, and a link to Oscar Wilde's fairy stories (we'll be asking at the beginning of the walk if anyone has worked out where that is!) The walk will, of course, have a link to Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol...
Meeting Point: Covent Garden Tube Station
WEDNESDAY, 7TH JANUARY, 2026 11:00 AM (£15)
Dickens meets Wren
Your Guide: Jenny Rossiter (jenny.rossiter@gmail.com)
Wren never read a Dickens' novel but, the great writer would have been aware of the architect's iconic churches. In this post Christmas permutation round the City of London, we will explore alleyways, churches and public houses frequented by both men, albeit a hundred years apart.
The walk ends at Monument tube
Meeting Point: Bank junction, on the steps of the Royal Exchange
WEDNESDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY, 2026 11:00 AM (£15)
Regent Street - the finest street in the world
Your guide: Anne Tickell (annetickell@hotmail.com)
Meeting point: Oxford Circus tube station, Argyll Street (exit 6)
Regent street when first built was labelled ‘the finest street in the world’ It was built to link the newly designed park (Regents Park ) with the Prince’s Town House (Carlton House) in St James’ Park . This walk will be looking at the lower half from Oxford Circus down to the Duke of York Steps. We will be discussing what was planned, what has been changed and what still remains of the original design The walk will finish at the Duke of York steps.