Explore the city from a different angle
Bloomsbury - Lost & Found
Saturday 7th January at 11am
Bloomsbury has remarkably close associations with children and young people. This guided walk through one of London's most attractive areas highlights some of these fascinating links. It includes Peter Pan and his lost boys, Captain Coram and his foundlings, a world famous children's hospital, a Nobel prize winning poet and a stunning Art Deco building which is said to have been the inspiration for a classic children's toy and much more.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-found-bloomsbury-tickets-30242520192
Cool Clerkenwell
Saturday 28th January at 11am
Clocks and Crusaders, Gin and Jerusalem, Huguenots, Radicals and Criminals. Explore the narrow streets of Clerkenwell, bursting with colourful characters, fascinating storiesand hidden gems. Walk includes a visit to the well that gave the area its name.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cool-clerkenwell-tickets-30226097070
Holborn - Residents, Rascals and Riots
Sunday 5th February at 11am
Meet eccentrics, inventors, writers and ordinary people on this walk through Holborn. Visit some well-known areas and some less known ones and find out about the colourful characters whose lives, work and, in some cases, crimes have shaped this area. We will meet some idealists and be shocked by some very bad behaviour indeed.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/residents-rascals-and-riots-tickets-24482238033
City of London - A Most Lamentable Fire
Saturday 25th February at 11am
In 1666 The Great Fire of London led to the destruction of 80% of the buildings within the old City walls.
Starting where the fire's most famous chronicler, Samuel Pepys lived and worked we follow the course of the fire from its outbreak in Pudding Lane to its terrifying climax at St Paul's Cathedral.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/city-of-london-a-most-lamentable-fire-tickets-30242739849
The walks are led by Jo Wilkinson or Karen Lansdown. Both are lifelong Londoners who grew up together in this area. They set up Lansdown's London to share their insider's view of the city with fellow Londoners and visitors wishing to stray from the usual tourist trail.
Jo is an official City of London and Camden tour guide and Karen an official City of London and Clerkenwell & Islington tour guide.