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.
Strangers in London: for a few seconds their paths cross on a Tube escalator, then they disappear into the city.
The dead got into him. Old London got into him.
The woman who put the dirt of Dachau on Hitler's bathmat.
The people in those vessels are not called bodies. They're called patients.
...they're old leather boots. Heavy, battered, workaday things. Except they've been silver-plated.
He created a demonstration of modern life.
the capitalist who financed communism.
Not bad for the fellow who first walked onto a London stage as Deputy Nincompoop.
Three centuries and change later, London is still saying thank you.
Like Budapest. Two cities separated by a river.
The atmosphere is unlike anywhere else in London.
the smallest discoveries can be the biggest of all
A mischievous rabbit in a little blue jacket.
the gaming there was worthy of “the decline of an empire.”
That's not a walking tour possum, that's an endurance event with a gift shop.
One has even become a little village fish tank.
Whole streets became darker. Literally darker. Britain's first blackout had begun.
they shaped modern architecture around the world
The handsomest weather vane in London.
The walls had ears. Hitler's generals never knew.
Everybody recognises Number 10. Almost nobody knows it.
That's London. Classic London. Reinventing itself. Rewriting the record books.
The Chinese had a name for these Western explorers. ‘The Foreign Devils.'
The geography of his inspiration is remarkably intact.
London is one of Europe's great bird cities.
The quietest park in London was once the noisiest place in Britain.
The smallest Royal Park has one of London's biggest surprises.
The one assaults you. The other quietly welcomes you, invites you, soothes you.
Because every Londoner has a handful of places that reassure them the city hasn't lost its soul. Burlington Arcade is one of mine.
Beadle and Buddha are distant linguistic cousins.
It's the oldest and grandest shopping arcade in Britain
Feline goings on from around the world
Marie Stopes taught a nation about sex because her own wedding night went so catastrophically wrong.
If you alter it without consent? You can be prosecuted. Criminally.
the nearest the likes of me is ever going to get to an ancient, ever-so-posh, ever-so-upper-class English gentlemen's club.
We get you inside it. Inside its grain. Its texture. Its hidden circuitry.
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