This month I shall be leading THREE London’s River walks on the following dates:
Monday 2nd March 11am
Monday 23rd March 11am
Saturday 28th March 11am
Would enjoy a stroll along the north bank of the River Thames to discover the history of many of the prominent building along the route to Billingsgate? Then please join me on one of these dates.
The walk will last between 1½ & 2 hours.
Meet at the City Information Centre by St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Adults: £7
Concs: £6
Children Under 12: Free
Dickens Walk!!
Meet at City Information Centre (just south of St. Paul’s Cathedral)
2pm Saturday 28th February 2015
Come along to find Charles Dickens source of inspiration for his globally loved novels and stories.
Tread the streets Dickens tramped and imagine a Dickensian London.
Adults: £7
Concs:£6
Children Under 12: Free
2 pm TOMORROW – Monuments to Murder – Find out about the blood-thirsty history of Smithfield – an ancient part of the City.
Sunday 2nd March 11 am – London’s Burning – Join me to discover more on the burning question of the City of London.
Thursday 6th March 11 am – Fleet Street – The street of ink & much more besides.
Wednesday 12th March 2 pm – City Highlights – Interesting facts & buildings to learn more about.
Friday 14th March 2 pm – Monuments to Murder – Deaths, murder & more.
Saturday 20th March 11 am – London’s River – Take a walk along the banks of the Thames & hear about its place in our history.
All walks meet at City Information Centre, near St. Paul’s Cathedral
Adults: £7
Concs: £6
Children under 12yrs. Free
Why not join me this Sunday for an unexpected London’s Burning tour?
Meet at the usual place – City Information Centre near St. Paul’s Cathedral at 11 am.
We will find out about TWO of the many fires London experienced in it’s History, why they occurred, how much devastation was wreaked & what London’s inhabitants did in response.
1666 was the year of The Great Fire of London & 1940 saw the beginning of the infamous Blitz bombing of our beloved City.
Come along to discover MORE!
£7 Adults
£6 concs.
Children under 12 years FREE
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
This week I have TWO tours for you to attend!
Tomorrow – Tuesday 14th May 2013 at 2pm I am taking a Fleet Street walk. This meets at the City Information Centre close to St. Paul’s Cathedral. Join me to discover the remains of a 1420’s monastery, a pub that dates to 1610 & just who was the biggest serial killer in London?
On Wednesday 15th May at 2pm I shall lead the City Highlights tour, which also meets at the City Information Centre. Come along to investigate just where Lloyds Insurance Company & LLoyds Register began & the origins of London’s banking system.
Why not get up & out early on Sunday & go to watch the London Marathon & then come on my tour at 11am? Meet at the City Information Centre by St. Paul’s Cathedral.
The tour will look at two devastating fires that changed London irrevocably – The Great Fire of London 1666 & The Blitz 1940-41.
The tour lasts two hours & ends at The Monument, which was built to commemorate the re-building of the City of London after The Great Fire in 1666.
We will visit little known remnants of both these cataclysmic events & discover why & where the fires raged & how people of the time dealt with the disasters.
Adults – £7/ concs. – £6 /children under 14 years – Free
I have to laugh – lately the weather reports say “possibility of snow” each time I have a tour lined-up! Only time will prove whether it will snow!
Several pairs of socks called for!
Meet at the City Information Centre by St. Paul’s Cathedral.
This Friday 25th January 2013 I will be taking a “Monuments to Murder” tour setting off at 2 pm from the City Information Centre (which is located just south of St. Paul’s Cathedral).
This is a tour that takes in several churches, a couple of monasteries, the site of a notorious prison referred to as the “prototype of hell”, sites of “resurrection” men’s activities, a lovely little park, some lovely little alleys & a fair!
The beauty of a snow-laden bush in the flats
A natural urban Xmas tree trying to blend-in with its cousins
But for now, with snow still on the ground & more predicted I will leave you with a couple more local snow scenes…
Our starting point
An atmospheric church en route
I stood-in for a colleague today on the above tour. This is a whole week before I’m due to take this tour!
I had a perfectly lovely couple on the walk, who were having their first day & night away from their 8 month old baby & this was a privilege for me.
I look forward to many more lovely people joining me next Friday 11th January 2013 at 2pm at The City Information Centre (near St. Paul’s Cathedral) for the “Monuments to Murder” tour.
We will visit various areas & buildings in the Smithfield vicinity & discover their dark secrets! I hope you can join me.
Zenas Tours 