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Paul and Tim's Greater London Talks and Walks

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If you love London, love history and love walking then come join Paul and Tim's Walks and Talks. Paul is an accredited guide, a lecturer who is passionate about sharing the history of London with others.
Tim is a historian, lecturer and author of a best selling guide to London (Walking London's History: 2000 years in 15 walks).
Together, we have been lecturing on London's history and taking people round this wonderful city for over ten years. We have worked with education institutes, museums, London clubs and groups and guided Londoners and tourists alike.

We offer high quality talks on London's history from Whitechapel to White City, from Boudicca to Virginia Woolf. We offer walks (never more than 20 people) to the hidden London where tourists rarely go, and tell stories that they don't hear. This group is for those who love their history but want to explore it in a non-scholarly fashion with friendly and relaxed people, hopefully sharing a meal, a drink and good conversation.

Featured event

My Favourite Livery Companies

Sat, Oct 18 · 10:45 AM BST

My Favourite Livery Companies

pret a manger 1 Long Ln, Barbican, London EC1A 9HA, 1 Long Ln, Barbican, london, al, GB

My number is 07815009191.

MEET: 10.45 for tea at Pret a Manger 1 Long Lane, London, EC1A 9HA.
11.15 for the start of the walk.

From the arrival of the Normans in 1066 through to the Great Fire some 600 years later, first the guilds and then the livery companies controlled the economy of the city of London and by implication of the whole country.

On this walk we'll visit some very old halls and some newer ones; we'll look at some of the better known companies and some of the more obscure: the loriners and the pattenmakers for example; we'll note the reasons for their geographical siting and consider some of the great characters and stories associated with them.

The cost of the walk is £12 per head. Please pay either to my account 75471878 sort code 090128 or cash on the day.

Upcoming events

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£12.00
8 seats left
Sat, Oct 18 · 10:45 AM BST
My Favourite Livery Companies
pret a manger 1 Long Ln, Barbican, London EC1A 9HA, 1 Long Ln, Barbican, london, al, GB
My number is 07815009191.

MEET: 10.45 for tea at Pret a Manger 1 Long Lane, London, EC1A 9HA.
11.15 for the start of the walk.

From the arrival of the Normans in 1066 through to the Great Fire some 600 years later, first the guilds and then the livery companies controlled the economy of the city of London and by implication of the whole country.

On this walk we'll visit some very old halls and some newer ones; we'll look at some of the better known companies and some of the more obscure: the loriners and the pattenmakers for example; we'll note the reasons for their geographical siting and consider some of the great characters and stories associated with them.

The cost of the walk is £12 per head. Please pay either to my account 75471878 sort code 090128 or cash on the day.
15 attendees
£12.00
Tue, Oct 21 · 1:00 PM BST
Tim’s Lost rivers of London: walk 4, the Westbourne
The Italian Gardens Café, Kensington Gardens, Lancaster Gate, London W2 2SD, London, GB
In our fourth walk exploring the hidden rivers of London we travel down the Westbourne. It’s surely our poshest river in that it divides the royal borough of Kensington and Chelsea from the equally posh bits of Westminster and it flows past great buildings like Kensington Palace and the Chelsea Hospital.
The route should also be the most beautiful walk of all the hidden rivers. We’re only going to do the pretty parts of the river valley and that means walking through Hyde Park, Knightsbridge and the Chelsea Hospital. It should be pretty spectacular in the autumn colours. We will just do the last three miles of the river’s course before ending close to its disgorging into the Thames near Chelsea bridge.
We meet in the Italian Gardens Cafe in Hyde Park, just at opposite site Lancaster Gate tube at 1pm for a 1.15 pm start.
The charge is £12 payable by card, cash, bank transfer or PayPal.
My phone number for late comers or emergencies is 07846899156.
24 attendees
£12.00
3 seats left
Mon, Oct 27 · 10:45 AM GMT
St James's - 'dwellings of Noble men and other Persons of quality’
Pret A Manger, 81 Piccadilly, London, GB
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My number is 07815009191.

MEET: 10.45 for tea Pret a Manger 81 Piccadilly, W1J 8HY. Almost next to Green Park station.

Or 11.15 by the fountain just outside Green Park exit from Green Park tube station.

Henry Jermyn, favourite of queen Henrietta Maria won the right to build the fine dwellings mentioned above on the pelli melli court (Pall Mall) and for this he is known as the father of the West End. It becomes the first shopping mall in the world and we'll visit some of those shops still with us on this walk.

Find out why the Berry Bros' weighing scales are so important, why gentlemen's clubs became an essential and why the duke of Wellington was excluded from his.

We'll see the grandest of London homes of the aristocracy, John Nash's summer house find out why the duke of York is on such a high pillar and why his troops went up and down the hill.

Please pay £12 to my account sort code 090128 account number 75471878 or cash on the day.

If you see unpaid by your name, just ignore it.
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