London Fashion & Shopping Tour
London is a major fashion centre and is often referred to as the fashion capital of the world. The city […]
London is a major fashion centre and is often referred to as the fashion capital of the world. The city […]
Discover diverse, fascinating and constantly evolving neighbourhoods on a tour of Multicultural London. A London Multicultural Tour is unmissable because… […]
Working as a Blue Badge Tourist Guide in I often show my guests – especially if they have young children – the bust of the William Buckland in the south aisle of Westminster Abbey. He may hardly be a household name but Buckland is memorialised for his appointment as Dean of the Abbey in 1845 and his work as an early palaeontologist and undergroundologist (geologist). He excelled at two of the new sciences that would enthral Britain in the nineteenth century.
Read moreBlue Badge Tourist Guides in London are used to taking people around places that have been around for a while and are often asked, ’How old is this place?’. Hogwarts School may have existed for some time, but nothing in the Harry Potter series of books and films is over thirty-five years old. Via this blog post, I’ll take a look at some of the places associated with the boy wizard.
Read moreLondon has been a smokeless zone for over sixty years. The city used to be famous for its ‘London fogs.’ They were described by the novelist Charles Dickens and even led to the creation of a type of American rainwear called London Fog. Then the Clean Air Acts were passed in the late 1950s and 1960s, largely as a reaction to the ‘great smog’ of 1952 and London Fogs gradually became a thing of the past that will hopefully never be seen again.
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