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Read more about the article The Ritz Hotel in World War II
The Ritz Hotel, London at Christmas by www.traveljunction.com is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Ritz Hotel in World War II

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:July 15, 2025
  • Post category:Uncategorized

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.…

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Read more about the article Free Walks for the Inside Out Festival 2025

Free Walks for the Inside Out Festival 2025

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:July 9, 2025
  • Post category:Association News/Free Walks/Local Stories

The City of Westminster is running the Inside Out Festival this summer which showcases fun and unique cultural events across the city and best of all, events are free for everybody…

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Read more about the article Lord Mayor’s walks

Lord Mayor’s walks

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:June 18, 2025
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A Walk with the Lord Mayor of Westminster! A new collaboration between the Lord Mayor of Westminster and the Westminster Guides When Councillor Paul Dimoldenberg was elected the new Right…

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Read more about the article Thurston’s Hall, Leicester Square

Thurston’s Hall, Leicester Square

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:June 17, 2025
  • Post category:Local Stories

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…

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Read more about the article The London Walking Festival 2025

The London Walking Festival 2025

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:April 11, 2025
  • Post category:Association News/Local Stories/Westminster News

The Westminster Guides are proud to support London Walking Festival 2025. Go Jauntly, London National Park City and Footways are working together to create a month-long festival in May to celebrate walking (and wheeling)…

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Read more about the article The Myth that made Millions

The Myth that made Millions

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:May 1, 2024
  • Post category:History/Local Stories

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…

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Read more about the article It all started with a Tea Dance

It all started with a Tea Dance

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:September 26, 2023
  • Post category:Westminster News

It all started with a Tea Dance …  Bringing back and making memories … Silver Sunday has become a national campaign tackling loneliness that affects so many older people.  “Our…

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Read more about the article Visit to Freemason’s Hall

Visit to Freemason’s Hall

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:November 30, 2022
  • Post category:Association News

In May, the membership of the City of Westminster Guide Lecturers Association was treated to an extraordinary tour of an extraordinary building - the Freemasons’ Hall. Simon Tansley, the building’s…

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Read more about the article Faithful friends remembered

Faithful friends remembered

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:April 12, 2021
  • Post category:History/Local Stories
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Tucked away in a corner of Hyde Park is a patch of green scattered with tiny headstones, a place where well-to-do Victorians commemorated joyful times in the park with their beloved pets Cherry, Spot and dear old Topsy

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Read more about the article ­The roundel: a design for all times
London Underground Booking office sign on background of 1960s Tube train

­The roundel: a design for all times

  • Post author:CWGLA
  • Post published:August 10, 2020
  • Post category:History
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It is a symbol of London that even those who have never boarded a London Underground train or London bus will almost certainly recognise The roundel was only meant to…

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