A walk with the Lord Mayor in Marylebone

Tour dates and times:

Thursday - 11 December 2025 - 17:00
Ticket price £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 independent shops change the face of a run a down High Street.
The history of Paddington Street Gardens includes plague and grave robbing.
How Catholics could worship at a time of oppression and exclusion.
How two brothers challenged the established church and formed a new expression of the Christian faith.
Enjoy the Christmas lights of Marylebone on this early evening walk. It will finish at Marylebone Lane near Bond Street.

Your Guide(s)

Event details

Tour duration 1.5 hours
Child friendly? No
Access friendly? No
Meeting point: This part of the University is opposite Baker Street Underground Station
Finishing at:Marylebone Lane, near Bond Street
Additional information provided by the guide

This year the Lord Mayor of Westminster is supporting two charities, the proceeds of the 2025-26 walks programme will be donated to these charities.

Hotel School is a London-based charity founded in 2017 by Jeremy Goring, CEO of The Goring Hotel, and Mick Clarke, CEO of The Passage, London’s largest voluntary sector homeless resource centre. They invest in people who have experienced homelessness and other disadvantages to equip them with hands on experience within the hospitality industry, since its inception the programme has achieved a 70 per cent success rate of graduates securing employment within the hospitality sector.

The Avenues Youth Project is a best-in-class youth centre. They believe every child from 8-18 should have the opportunity to realise their potential, whatever their life circumstances, having built a safe-space youth centre in 1979 is now seeing 1,000 young people benefitting from their programmes each years

Please note that walks are run by Association members – your contract is between you and the guide, not with the Association