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  • The Tea and Coffee Story
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  • Dickens' London
  • The Victorian City at Christmas
  • City Gardens
  • Legal London
  • Discovering Kilburn's past
  • Clerkenwell - London's medieval suburb
  • The Docklands in the Blitz
  • Case study: Camden Heritage Walks
  • Case study: Museum of London
  • Case study: EC1 New Deal
  • Case study: London and Continental Railways
  • Case study: University of London
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What do we do?

The City Highlights team lead individual walks through London, as well as provide heritage-based walks and tours for other organisations. Each of our tours listed below could also be a slide lecture for your club or society. Maybe combine a talk with a following walk.

Click on a topic for a fuller description, and details of start point, duration, nearest stations and other information. Any of these walks could be customised for you.

Just get in touch to discuss dates, fees.

Walk/Talk portfolio

The Flower of Cities All • Exploring the medieval City
Roman London • Revealing the City’s founders
The World City • How the Victorians built London
Archaeology in the City • Digging up the past
Architecture in the Modern City • Foster, Rogers and more
2000 years of history • It’s all there in the City Streets
The City and the Blitz • Telling the story of December 1940
Tea and Coffee in London • Looking at coffee houses and tea importers
Satirical London • Poking fun at the establisment is no recent thing
Dickens’ London • How Dickens used the City for inspiration and a home
The Victorian City at Christmas • How the 19th century did it
City Gardens • Green spaces in the Square Mile
Wren’s Churches • A feast of architecture and history
Legal London • Fleet Street, the Strand and the Temple
Bloomsbury, north to south, east to west • two walks in literary London
Discovering Kilburn’s Past • How suburban London grew
Clerkenwell: London’s medieval suburb • Fascinating and little-known part of the city
Smithfield: martyrs and monasteries • The gruesome side of history
The Blitz in the Docklands • A Thameside walk in 1940s London
Finsbury and St Lukes • Wesley, Blake, Caslon and hidden history
Euston Square to St Pancras Gardens • What’s behind the termini?
The Barbican • The story of the City’s post-war vision
Southwark • South of the river has never been so interesting

Our clients

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Museum of London
Hampstead Museum
London Borough of Camden
EC1 New Deal
Groundwork North London
London & Continental Railways
Credit Suisse Asset Management
University of London Estates
Coach Potato Tours