Categories and Titles — WatkinsWalksLondon

Here’s a full list of my tour titles under geographical area. For the walk descriptions, simply click the sub headings.

I can provide all my tours as actual walking tours or virtual tours unless stated otherwise.

All my currently scheduled tours are listed on the home page with direct links to the eventbrite booking site.

· St Giles: In Search of a Slum

Not Just Tea at The Ritz: (History of Mayfair’s Grand Hotels)

· Soho: London’s Great Melting Pot

· London’s Ragged and Reformers (around Marylebone)

· 1966: The Year of Swinging London (in Soho and Mayfair)

· The Mad World of Marylebone

· Slums to the Stars: Covent Garden in the Nineteenth Century

· A Trafalgar Square Travesty

· Mr Blake’s Tree Full of Angels (Richard’s Soho pub walk)

· Healers and Hoaxers (Marylebone Medical history)

· Mr Gill’s Precious Ornament (Whimsical walk around Oxford Circus)

· Return of the King: Westminster in the 1660s

· The Great Fire of Westminster: (the burning down of the medieval Houses of Parliament)

· Palaces, Pelicans and Prostitutes (the history of St James’s Park)

· London, the War and 1916

· The Extreme Pleasures of Wellington’s London (St James’s and Piccadilly)

· The Peace Makers of Belgravia

· The Shadows of Victoria Street

· Pots, Glassware, Stone and Beer: Lambeth’s Lost Industry

· The Great Exhibition

· The Journey to Tyburn: On the Trail to the Fatal Tree

London’s Last Toll Road and Other Dulwich Stories

Hitting the Heights: the history of Crystal Palace

Dulwich: Hamlet, Village and Suburb

· Circling the Triangle: Continued History of Crystal Palace.

Bread, Milk, Fish and Gold: Cheapside’s Great Market

The City of London’s Forgotten Transformation

Kensington High Street: The Golden Age of Shopping