Guided Walks
Get walking and uncover London’s secrets!
From ancient ruins to modern day facades London is a city of many stories. Join experts from the Museum of London Docklands and professional guides as they lead all kinds of special walks and visits with something in the programme for everyone. So put on your walking shoes and find out where a Museum of London Docklands walk will take you! Once tickets are booked our Box Office will advise you on where the walk will start from.
Walking the Roman wall
Sat 7 Aug & 2 Oct, 2-4pm
Book in advance £8
Follow the Roman wall of the City of London and trace where it still exists, both overground and underground.
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The belles of Bow
Wed 11 Aug. 2.30-4.30pm
Book in advance £8
This walk follows in the footsteps of Sylvia Pankhurst who chose East London as the starting point for her campaign for women's suffrage. East End women were key to the success of the Suffragette movement. This walking tour highlights Suffragette supporters and their workplaces including the famous Bryant & May Match Factory, site of the Match Girls' Strike of 1888.
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Roman amphitheatre
Thu 12 Aug, Wed 8 Sep, Tue 12 Oct, Thu 11 Nov, Wed 8 Dec & Tue 25 Jan, 2-3pm
Book in advance £5 (concs £3)
Visit the remains of London's only Roman amphitheatre with curator Jenny Hall. See the excavated remains of the amphitheatre preserved beneath the Guildhall Yard. Learn about the history of the site and the archaeological evidence for its later occupation. Each ticket includes a guided tour and entrance to the Guildhall Art Gallery.
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Roman fort
Thu 19 Aug, Wed 15 Sep, Tue 19 Pct, Thu 18 Nov, Wed 15 Dec & Tue 18 Jan, 2-2.30pm & 3-3.30pm
FREE
Enjoy a curator-led tour of the remains of the western gate of London's Roman military fort, located beneath the streets next to the Museum. The fort was in the north-west corner of a huge wall that surrounded Londinium around AD 200. Join this tour to find out more about the site, discovered in 1956.
Publish and be damned
Sat 21 Aug & Wed 29 Sep, 11am – 1pm
Book in advance £8
Join walk leader John Finn of CityHighLights to stroll through 500 years of London's printing, publishing and bookselling trade. Starting from St Paul's, once the centre of Britain's publishing industry, the tour passes through Fleet Street, where the country's newspapers were once produced in their millions every day of the week. Along the way, encounter the people and places crucial to this history such as press barons like Lord Northcliffe and author Dr Samuel Johnson.
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Jewish East End
Wed 25 Aug & Sun 26 Sep, 2.30-4.30pm
Book in advance £8
Tour the streets of Spitalfields with Rachel Kolsky and find out about the area's rich Jewish history. Visit the sites of old synagogues, Yiddish theatres, vapour baths and outdoor markets. This tour also includes stories of other immigrant communities who made this area their home such as the Huguenots and Bengalis.
In partnership with B'nai B'rith European Days of Jewish Culture & Heritage
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London burials
Sat 4 Sep, 2-3.30pm
Book in advance £6.50
Find out where the bodies of old Londoners are hidden – from single graves to plague pits.
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Historical Pimlico
Wed 8 Sep & Wed 12 Jan, 11am – 1pm
Book in advance £8
From a marshy outpost fit only for oyster-picking to the genteel suburb of today, this walk looks at the colourful and varied history of Pimlico. The history of Pimlico will be traced through the centuries by CityHighLights' Alan MacDougall, exploring the housing, churches and everyday pastimes of its inhabitants.
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City in the Blitz
Wed 6 Oct, Sat 6 Nov & Wed 29 Dec, 11am – 1pm
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Discover the incredible stories of danger, destruction and sadness that faced Londoners during the Blitz of World War Two. On the 29 December a special walk is scheduled to mark the 70th anniversary of the most devastating raid against the City of London in 1940, known as 'the second great fire of London'.
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Blood alley and beyond
Wed 27 Oct & Sat 20 Nov, 3.30-5pm
Book in advance £6.50
Historian S.I. Martin explores the West India Docks, revealing its links to the slave trade and the lives of the Black sailors who settled there.
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Hauntings and hangings
Sun 31 Oct & Wed 24 Nov, 6-8pm
Book in advance £8
Sign up for an evening stroll through the darker side of London, with tales of churchyard murders, public executions and body snatchers. Find out where a Scots patriot was executed more than 700 years ago, where a ghostly monk still haunts his church and The Black Dog of Newgate. All accompanied by the clatter of horses' hooves!
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Dickens' London
Wed 10 Nov & Sat 8 Jan, 11am – 1pm
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Walk the streets with Charles Dickens and his characters - from Smithfield Market and the Old Bailey, to Fleet Street and the Temple. Recall places where the great man lived and worked; where he made his novels come alive with characters such as Oliver and Pip, where both Fagin and Magwitch met their fates, and where he conjured up the dark scenes of judicial neglect in Bleak House.
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Victorian Christmas
Sat 4 & Wed 8 Dec, 11am – 1pm
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Mike Moran of CityHighLights leads a walk which looks at how the Victorians celebrated Christmas and the traditions they introduced that are still familiar today. Learn about Christmas trees, stockings and cards as well as what Christmas was like in the workhouse and how our image of Christmas is influenced by the writings of the most eminent of Victorian authors, Charles Dickens.
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West India Docks
Sat 18 Dec & Wed 26 Jan, 2-4pm
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Join long-term local resident Brian Grover for a guided tour of London's oldest enclosed docks. Discover the surviving warehouses, workshops and monuments that still bear witness to the Port of London's heyday. Also learn about the lives of the dockers themselves – their working practices, how they fought for their rights, and the mark they left on the surrounding neighbourhood.
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Old Poplar
Sat 22 Jan, 2-4pm
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Hear the story of old Poplar and learn how life in this historic area has changed over the decades. Poplar has been a place of contrasts, where dire poverty (exemplified by the harsh conditions of Poplar Workhouse) could be found alongside the wealth generated by the East India Docks. This walk will include the beautiful Old Poplar Library, St Matthias Church (formerly a chapel of the East India Company), and tales of colourful goings-on at the White Horse pub and the Queen's Theatre music hall.
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