Long term #Lambeth resident & LTGA course student Deirdre O'Brien explains why training to become a tour guide is the tops ! lambethtourguides.org/post/just-brin… #doingLambethWalks 🚶‍♂️ 📖 🚶‍♂️🎓 🚶‍♀️

A big 👏👏 to Katie of Look Up London who came to speak to this year's Become a Lambeth Tour Guide students last night at Morley College London Insights & tips from her career from Walks 🚶‍♂️to Writing ✍ Recommend the book & Women’s History Map 👇

Congratulations Paul Paul Wood 🌳!

Discover Stella Gibbons, author of Cold Comfort Farm, & explore her life on Highgate’s Holly Lodge Estate. Join the walk on 21st June to uncover the stories of women writers and the literary history of the area. Book your ticket: eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour… #Camden60

It’s an excellent walk. Lovely locations and l learned loads too!

Some of these Rosebery Ave trees were planted c 1890 by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Assoc -under the direction of their landscape gardener, Fanny Wilkinson. Read @ her + friends in my ‘Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their circle’ womanandhersphere.com/2025/03/11/ano…

And here is something about that 1907 suffragette play at the Royal Court womanandhersphere.com/2020/08/19/col…

Great London Walks in August coming up at footprintsoflondon.com eomail4.com/web-version?p=… rob_s_smith The Naked Anthropologist Charnowalks CapitalWalksinLondon Stephen's LDN Marilyn Greene

Ever wondered where the lost River Walbrook ran? Join us to learn more on Wed 13th August at 11am to explore a watery history and its effects on today’s built environment. Free but booking essential. @islingtonheritage Your London Walks eventbrite.co.uk/e/undercurrent…

Anniversary of the death of #WilliamBlake on this day 1827 has been nicely marked in Bunhill Fields. Seems there’s a commemoration planned for Saturday. Islington Walks Islington Museum Lambeth Tour Guides Association

CapitalWalksinLondon Islington Walks Islington Museum Lambeth Tour Guides Association Music, poetry, creative chatter—Blake’s dream lineup! Bringing my sketchbook to soak in London’s muse-radiation under the trees. 🍃

CapitalWalksinLondon Islington Walks Islington Museum Greetings from #WilliamBlake in #Lambeth. You can still see the plaque, though not the actual house, where he lived on Hercules Road SE1, with a number of mosaic panels under the nearby railway arches showing him & his work.

🚨 New on Substack, my follow-up post on Ernő Goldfinger's Balfron Tower, looking at the experience of those for whom it was home and its controversial sell-off. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/balfron-towe…

A great day for the panoramic views from Canonbury Tower on today's tour for Islington Walks. My next tour, tomorrow Sat 16 Aug 10.30am, is a walk around Hidden City Spaces in the City of London (in the background in this photo). Details: LondonOnTheGround.com CoL Guides 🇺🇦

F is for the #Female force, focusing on Ladies of #Lambeth - on 20th September join this Walk to discover the extraordinary Women of #Clapham as part of the Heritage Festival.🚶🏾‍♀️🚶🏾💃🧵 🧶 #OnlyInLambeth Inspirational Women of Clapham | Lambeth Council share.google/MxsavsGi0aON5P…

H is for #Hollamby & #Housing #OnlyInLambeth : the programme of building “Homes for Tomorrow”: Lambeth’s Public Housing, under Director of Architecture & Planning Ted Hollamby 1965-1980, is celebrated in a FREE exhibition at Lambeth Archives Sept 1 - 26. 🏗 🧱 🔨

I is for 'I could Become A Lambeth Tour Guide' Learn about London History & #Lambeth today, hone presentation skills, explore green spaces, riverside developments, the people & places in the Borough Apply for this Sept 👇 lambethtourguides.org/lambeth-guidin… #OnlyInLambeth 📖 🚶‍♂️🚶🏾🎓

I climbed the Cally Clock Tower, which once looked over two bustling Islington markets - meat, then flea - for the latest in my Sketches of London series for The Times. thetimes.com/uk/london/arti…

From today's Local Guiding Day exploring the Shadows of the Past - in #Stockwell The 19th Garden Square : Albert Sq of 1847 Metropolitan transport in the Modernist Bus Garage of 1952. (Addie, Button & Partners) #LocalLondonGuidingDay

The new Hackney Tour Guiding Course is now available. Gain a recognised qualification and join the Hackney Tour Guides’ Association. Book now: hackneysociety.org/guiding-course/ #HackneySociety #TourGuiding #HackneyHistory ##architecture #events #regeneration #events