London Walking Tours

F&M London Walking Tours

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We offer established or bespoke London walks for individuals, education establishments, work's parties, corporate events, stag / hen nights, birthday parties...pretty much anything really.

Costs are Ł5.00 per head (minimum Ł40.00) and bespoke walks are an extra Ł25.00. For further details please e-mail

walks@fandmpublications.co.uk

One Eye Grey Folklore and Ghost walks: These quirky and disturbing walks delve into London folklore and occult tales:

Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury, Chelsea, Waterloo, Vauxhall, St James, Borough, Blackfriars, London Bridge and Holborn.

You may have thought Boris Johnson has created a strange and unusual London but these are the real deal.

London Walking Tours:

We offer walking tours of Clerkenwell, Bloomsbury, Chelsea, Fleet Street, Spirtalfields, Waterloo, Vauxhall, St James, Southwark, Bermondsey, Blackfriars and anywhere along the river Thames between Tower Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge. We also offer a three bridges tour of Chelsea, Albert and Battersea as well as the Fright Bike tour of Rotherhithe and Deptford.

Please enquire for more details and below are a few of our themed London walks.

Couple of snippets from Walbrook Stair and Lambeth Bridge

NEW! Animal tour: Nazi dogs and others on spikes, lost zoos, bears in boats, geese pulling barrels, why horses got the hump and many other peculiar tales of London wildlife are related in a meander from the Mall to Blackfriars.

Joke Lore Tour Queen Rat of Queenshythe, The Great Worm of Borough, Pagan Estate Agents and the peculiar case of the mummified cat all feature on this strange tour of London's waterfront. Much of tour consists of well known London folktales and ghost stories but part of it is pure nonsense. Will you be able to pick the two apart and who would you nominate for the place the modern traitor's head on London Bridge game?

The nursery rhyme walk: Always fond of stretching a point this walk takes in a number of themes dealt with in popular favourite nursery rhymes such as prostitution, debt, fire and sacrifice. It starts at Bank Station (London's burning) and crosses London Bridge (which is not falling down). From there it meanders along the streets once walked by the Southwark geese (goosie, goosie, gander) before crossing back over the Millennium Bridge to the old parish of St Clements (oranges and lemons) and pays homage to Dick Whittington (Turn again Whittington). On the way a number of other rhymes (Baa baa black sheep and Rub a dub) also get a passing mention.

London Bridge Walking Tour

East Side Story: This tour celebrates the waves of immigrants who have made this area what it is and the changes that are currently afoot both around Spitalfields and nearby Shoreditch. There will be no glamorisation of serial killers or for that matter any other dead criminals on this tour as there is so much else to consider. There are four separate markets for example, dozens of curry houses, a booming nightlife and art scene. Yet still in the shadows of Europe's financial heart poverty, prostitution and the drugs economy thrive. Perhaps nowhere else in London does the past and present collide with such force as it does around these streets under the brooding presence of Nicolas Hawksmoor's stunning church at Spitalfields. Anyone interested in Ripper walks should go here or here.

Bridges walking tour

Hookers bones Bridget Jones: Tour of Borough and London Bridge area encompassing the backdrops used in both the latest Harry Potter Film and (less recently) Bridget Jones' Diary. More interesting is the site of allegedly Europe's only prostitutes' cemetery. The walk goes on through the historical south work taking in the maritime, medical and entertainment history of the area as well as current attractions, an expanding range of restaurants and bars and some very well hidden night-clubs. Loosely based on the themes of sex and disease the tour explains why people for centuries came south for pleasure and also the concentration of hospitals and medical study in the vicinity.

Fleet and Holborn: This walk is a bit of jumble that starts either at Holborn Tube and meanders down to Blackfriars or, if you prefer, goes the other way. It takes in the Inns of Court, Lincolns Inn Fields, Fleet Street and the valley of the old River Fleet. This is a good walk to do in the evening or when thirsty because there are are several of London's finest old pubs en route. Some fine tales to hear and a pleasant pub at the end of all this ambling.