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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Alan Turing (1912-1954)

A war hero and a victim of prejudice Alan Turing Blue Plaque Alan Mathison Turing was born in 1912 in a nursing home in Maida Vale, west London close to Warwick Avenue tube station. An English Heritag …


The Myth that made Millions

The Story of Belgravia Belgravia was indeed a Myth that made Millions. It was a fabricated name to which various attributes of grandeur were given, through sales-speak and word of mouth among new and …


Ottobah Cugoano (c1757 – c1791)

Ottobah Cugoano also known as Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, was an ex enslaved person who became free. He was captured at the age of 13 in what is now Ghana, transported to Grenada, then ended up being …