London Heritage Quarters and National Walking Week
It's National Walking Week in May, and Westminster Guides have been commissioned by London Heritage Quarter BID to provide two walks - each of which will be run three times.…
The King’s Fabulous Beasties and Other Animals…
.The crowded streets around Parliament Square transport us to a magical land of both mythical and real animals…if we happen to look up and truly see the buildings before us.…
The Connection
Celebrating the 300th anniversary of St Martin-In-The Fields church, Westminster guides are leading a series of walks raising money for the charity The Connection aimed at helping people who are…
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
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.…
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…
The London Walking Festival 2025
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)…
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…
It all started with a Tea Dance
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…
Visit to Freemason’s Hall
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…
Faithful friends remembered
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