Next Set of Tours

Screencarving possibly by Grinling Gibbons

Now the WARM weather has arrived you might like to join me on one of the following tours:

Sunday 23rd June 2 pm City Highlights

Find out about some of the grandest buildings in the City of London &  some of the people responsible for them & the state of the Nation!

Discover the gruesome history of Cheapside & a medieval parallel to recent racist attacks.

Think Starbucks is fab? Learn about the origins of coffee houses & their clientele. Then see the original logo used by Starbucks.

Wend through the City’s ancient alleys & end where Mendelssohn played the organ in 1840.

Thursday 27th June 2 pm – London’s Burning Tour

TWO major fires transformed the City of London, with planned cuts & closures to the Fire Stations in London will history repeat itself ?

Find out the effects of these catastrophes on the inhabitants, on their lives, on their buildings & the roles their leadership played.

Were the Nobles heroes? Were the workers the saviours?

See what happened to the buildings & spot a rare relic of WWII.

Laurence Pountney church alley

Friday 28th June 2pm – Monuments to Murder

Visit scenes of London’s bloody & tragic history.

Martyrs, criminals, resurrection men, heroic self-sacrifice, public hangings, disembowelment, burning, boiling alive, body parts, murder & the “portal to hell”.

All of this AND MORE!

For each tour meet me at the City Information Centre, nr. St. Paul’s Cathedral

Tours last approx. 2 hours

£7 Adults

£6 concs.

Children under 12 yrs. Free

City Highlights Tour Today & Wednesday 3rd April 2013 at 2 pm

It did try to snow on my City Highlights tour today – but we survived the cold & Easter Sunday.

This tour culminates at St. Peter’s Cornhill & the church is not open to the public, however today there was a lovely Chinese group singing & utilising the space. This resulted in us being able to take a peek inside! Incredibly exciting! I took a very swift couple of snaps, as I didn’t wish to be seen to be taking advantage of the situation.

I promise you, if you join this tour I will take you through a lovely selection of courts & alleys & their attendant hidden treasures & surprise tranquility & greenery.

Screen carving possibly by Grinling Gibbons with 1681 Father Smith organ

The chancel screen is said to be the work of Sir Christopher Wren’s daughter. He rebuilt the church after the Great Fire of London. Sadly this is a not particularly successful ‘snap’ of the screen, however I am including it as it at least gives some idea of the piece.

Ms. Wren’s chancel screen