London Walks is the oldest urban walking tour company on the planet. It’s the gold standard of this profession, this craft. Here you can listen to our guides' stories and anecdotes of London.
"How did three titled dunderheads get to be in charge of an army?"
"I started guiding before I finished lawyering"
"there's always a bit of wistfulness. Laurie misses London"
"the most interesting street in London"
think of each one of those 800,000 words as the life of a young soldier or officer
"look, there's the football coach in the chair getting a buzz cut for his palms"
The walk explores the London of 1923
"we had images of glaring demons with horns sprouting from their heads"
“There is only one recipe – to care a great deal for the cookery.”
Item: two human skulls in a bag. Item: a jar of bull's sperm
it gets a big dodgy here. Juno wasn't just Jupiter's wife. She was also his sister.
"a hero was one who urinated standing up"
Every cat owner secretly knows if it were big enough their treasured companion would have them for lunch
both were kneeling beside the bed and were naked
Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these!
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see”
The James Bond novels were among President Kennedy's favourites
the May Pole – the phallic symbol par excellence.
the word focus comes from the Latin word for hearth
"why he's not a 'little lettuce'"
an easy horse, some good old authors, ingenious and cheerful Companions
"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it was always hushed up"
"she lives and breathes her establishment"
"Holy Moses...this concealed London treasure"
This Sunday's Chiswick Walk is an embarrassment of riches.
"he tried to teach his pet poodle how to read"
"Margaux is our – London Walks' – miracle."
"when served to Churchill he pushed it away and asked for beef"
London calling. London Walks connecting. This… is London. This is London Walks. Streets ahead. Story time. History time. ————————————— Top of the morning to you, London Walkers. Wherever you are. It's May 1st, 2025. We're going to do a death today. An exodus that took place 325 years ago. May 1st, 1700. But not just […]
"El Gato moved on to the great litter tray in the sky"
"Be the first – in the billions of journeys across the capital no-one has ever done this one"
"It's Rodgers & Hammerstein having a second chance"
"they got him through his DNA" Really?
It stopped me in my tracks then and it's haunted me ever since.
"London has a bigger historical footprint than any other city in the world"
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