Covent Garden London
The heart of London's West End
International Tourist Guiding Day
International Tourist Guiding Day is on Friday 21st February. Numerous events will take place, including free guided walking tours. London Blue Badge Guides will be taking groups from their local communities, or staff from popular tourist sites, on free tours. Several London coach companies are also kindly providing their services free of charge.
Details of other Blue Badge Guided free tours on Friday 21st February listed below.
Free Blue Badge Guided tours, London, Friday 21st February, 2003
- 1. 'Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square'
- Meet: Eros Statue (nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus)
- Time: 10.30 am and 2.00 pm
- Duration: 1 hour 30 min.
- Guide: Joy Levene
- 2. 'Knickers To The Entente Cordiale' (How a little lingerie has helped Franco-British relations)
- A care-free stroll with kings, queens and royal mistresses who reveal the secret role of the bodice, the balconnet and the bustier in London's links with the French.
- Meet: St James' Tube (opposite New Scotland Yard).
- Time: 11.00 am and 3.00 pm. Starting from Petty France through St James's Park, ending in Trafalgar Square.
- Duration: 1 Hour 30 min.
- Guide: Peter Bloor.
- 3. 'Clerkenwell Secret Village'
- Meet: Farringdon Tube Station
- Time: 11.00 am
- Duration: 1 hour to 1 hour 30 min.
- Guide: Sue Jackson
- 4. 'Roman London'
- Meet: Tower Hill Tube Station (upper exit)
- Time: 10.00 am and 2.00 pm.
- Duration: 2 hours. Finish: Museum of London (nearest tube: Barbican, St Paul's, Moorgate).
- Guide: Caroline Macdonald-Haig
- 5. 'London's Heroes (Statues)' - Trafalgar Sq. to Westminster Statue.
- Meet: Leicester Sq. Tube Station, by the Wyndham Theatre.
- Time: 11.00 am.
- Duration: 1 hour 30 min. Finishing at Westminster Tube Station.
- Guide: Alison Haslam
- 6. ' Bloomsbury Walk'
- Meet: Tottenham Court Rd. Tube, outside Dominion Theatre.
- Time: 2.00pm.
- Duration: 1 hour 30 min. Finishing Euston Square Station.
- Guide: Tony Mcdonnell
- 7. 'Japanese Guided Tours' - National Gallery in the morning, Panorama of London from 11.00 am, Guided Tour of Dulwich Picture Gallery
- Organised by Japanese Registered Guides Association for Japanese residents.
- 8. ' Fires & Plagues' - walk.
- Meet: Tower Hill Tube.
- Time: 12.30
- Duration: 1 Hour 30 min. Finishing Cannon Street or St Paul's.
- Guide: Eileen Cox.
- 9. 'Stocks, Steeples, Statues - City of Stunning Contrast.'
- Meet: Steps of St Paul's Cathedral.
- Time: 10.30 am.
- Duration: 1 Hour 30 min.
- Guide: Tim Hudson.
- 10. ' Whores, Rakes & Greasepaint - Nell Gwynne's Covent Garden'
- Meet: Covent Garden Tube.
- Time: 11.00 am.
- Duration: 1 Hour 15 min. Ends St Martin's in Fields.
- Guide: Simon Rodway.
- 11. 'A Visit To The National Portrait Gallery'
- From The Tudors to The Windsors, Portraits of Monarchs and Individuals Who Shaped The History of Britain. (In French).
- Time: 11.00 a.m.
- Meet: National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Lane. Entrance of the museum.
- Guide: Christine Feldman.
- 12. ' Around Historic Clerkenwell'
- Meet: Farringdon Tube.
- Time: 2.00 pm.
- Duration: 1 Hour to 1 Hour 30 min.
- Guide: Rosemary Honey.
- 13. 'Old Hampstead'
- Meet: Hampstead Tube.
- Time: 2.00 pm.
- Duration: 1 Hour 30 min.
- Guide: Robert Fromow.
- 14. 'Charles Dickens Walk'.
- Meet: Blackfriars Tube.
- Time: 11.00 am.
- Duration: 1 Hour 30 min to 2 hours. Finish Holborn.
- Guide: Marielies Jackson.
- 15. 'Spanish Speakers Walk'
- Meet: Admiralty Arch in Trafalgar Square (Charing Cross Tube)
- Time: 12.15 pm.
- Duration: 1 Hour 30 min. Finish Hyde Park Corner.
- Guide: Hazel Docherty.
- 16. 'City of London in Italian'
- Meet: Steps of St Paul's Cathedral.
- Time: 1.30 pm.
- Duration: 1 Hour 30 min.
- Guide: Roberto di Gioacchino
- 17. 'Vauxhall (Gardens, Motors, Russian Railway) -Kennington associations - the Oval - Vincent in Brixton.
- Meet: Albert Embankment at the East End of Lambeth Bridge, opposite International Maritime Organisation.
- Time: 11.00 a.m.
- Duration: 1 Hour 30 min.
- Guide: Liz du Parcq.
For further information, please visit www.blue-badge.org.uk or www.aptg.org.uk
Or contact for additional information:
- Ali Bennett, Co-ordinator, International Tourist Guide Day, 020-8677 0749
- Eileen Cox, Co-ordinator, International Tourist Guide Day, 020 -8444 7866
- Mehmet Ahmet, Office Manager, Guild of Registered Tourist Guides 020-7403 1115
- Simon Good, Press Officer, APTG 020 7424 0808 simonvgood@hotmail.com
Article sibmitted by Simon Good
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