Official Guides to the City of Westminster

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Explore the famous, infamous and surprising with us… Our members are qualified tour guides, wear the association badge shown here, and are dedicated to providing quality tours of the City of Westminster

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A walk with the Lord Mayor in Marylebone

Thu 11 Dec 25 17:00

£10.00

Discover the various solutions for housing needed including the mansion blocks, the brutalist Luxborough Tower and Octavia Hill’s social housing. How the Marylebone High Street regeneration has seen i …


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Richard II’s extravagance

On October 31, 1396 the marriage ceremony between Richard II and Isabella of Valois, the daughter of King Charles VI of France, took place in the church of St Nicholas in Calais. The bride was six yea …


The Ritz Hotel in World War II

Image of the Ritz Hotel at night

Jonty Levin one of our Westminster Guides shares with us the story of the Ritz Hotel during the last war ,taken from his WWII walking tour around Whitehall and St. James.  As seen in The Crown, the Ri …


Thurston’s Hall, Leicester Square

Parkinson’s curtailed my guiding and I now live in a care home. I think therefore its acceptable to watch afternoon television much of which appears to be repeat programmes about antiques. They follow …

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