Local London Guiding Day – Shadows of the Past

Tour dates and times:

Saturday - 4 October 2025 - 10:00
Saturday - 4 October 2025 - 11:00
Saturday - 4 October 2025 - 11:00
Saturday - 4 October 2025 - 12:00
Saturday - 4 October 2025 - 13:00
Saturday - 4 October 2025 - 14:00
Saturday - 4 October 2025 - 15:00
Saturday - 4 October 2025 - 16:00

A gentle walk with a qualified Westminster Guide through Marylebone discover how ghosts of the past haunt the present. We will hear about great men and women (and the not so great), where they lived and died, and how these memories shape the present.

60 minute walks are on the hour every hour from 10:00 until 16:00.

Challenge for the day … Local London Guiding Day sees 5 London guiding associations taking part, same theme, different routes, how many walks can you complete in a day?

Other associations to explore – City of London, Camden , Clerkenwell & Islington, Lambeth for more information on all of the walks visit www.locallondonguidingday.com.

 

Your Guide(s)

A Westminster Guide from the Walks and Talks Team.

Event details

Tour duration 1 hour
Child friendly? No
Access friendly? No
Meeting point: Sherlock Holmes Statue
Finishing at:St Mary’s Church, Marylebone
Additional information provided by the guide

Every year we ask for donations to support the Lord Mayor’s charities, this year the Lord Mayor of Westminster is supporting the following 2 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, investing 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% success rate of graduates securing employment within the hospitality sector.

The Avenues Youth Project – a best-in-class youth centre who 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