Wednesday Walks
FEBRUARY - APRIL, 2025
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 (new price) 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!
** SCHEDULE CHANGE**
WEDNESDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 11 AM (£15)
Metroland
Your guide: Anne Tickell annetickell@hotmail.com
Meeting point: Pinner tube station
Pinner was a village dating back to the Domesday book and remained relatively unchanged with half a dozen farms, a few big houses, and a charming church and high street until the Metropolitan line arrived. With it came the idea of Metro-land and the plan to build ‘palaces in miniature’ for the London middle classes.
We’ll be exploring both the old village and newer builds and the walk ends in a memorial park with a nice café, 5 minutes from Pinner Station and good eating places in the High Street.
WEDNESDAY 5TH MARCH 11 AM (£15)
Stepney Green to Whitechapel
Your guide: Jenni Bowley jenni@bowley.net
Meeting point: Stepney Green station
This walk explores the short distance between Stepney Green station and Whitechapel - once the rural retreat of successful seafarers then dominated by the huge Charrington's Blue Anchor Brewery. It became infamous for the poverty of many inhabitants - and famous for the soup kitchens and salvation offered by William and Catherine Booth, founders of the Salvation Army.
WEDNESDAY, 2 APRIL 2025 11:00 AM (£15)
Bohemian Fitzrovia
Your guide: Elaine Wein elaineguide1@gmail.com
Meeting point: Goodge Street Tube Station
This walk explores the actors, musicians and literary figures that made their home in the pubs and cafes of Fitzrovia. On our walk we will pass the beautiful Fitzrovia Chapel, get hunger pangs in Charlotte Street and see the workhouse that inspired Charles Dickens.
We will hear about the “unpickable lock challenge”, and finally learn about the Cleveland Street Scandal.