HOW YESTERDAY’S LONDON CHANGED INTO THE CAPITAL OF TOMORROW
Local London Guiding Day is when London’s guiding associations come together to offer free tours showcasing the very best the capital has to offer. This year’s theme is Back to the Future – how yesterday’s London changed into the capital of tomorrow.
Change has been London’s only constant. Yesterday’s people have fought for our freedom and rights to live in the modern London of today and monumental events have shaped our city so it had to reinvent itself regularly. Come and hear about these game-changers and see how even today will shape the London of the future because today is tomorrow’s past.
Clerkenwell and Islington
Join us on this Old Street walk to discover the people, places and stories from London’s Silicone Roundabout, where relics of the past nestle alongside buildings of the future. From its Roman origins, what does the future hold for this gateway into the City ?
You may book a place or just turn up on the day.
Meet at Old Street Station
Camden: From Grime to Sublime!
Explore how King’s Cross has transformed from an industrial
wasteland to a hub for leisure, learning and travel, aware of its
past as it builds the future, on its journey from steam, coal
and gas to coding, creativity and green spaces.
You may book a place at llgd-camden.eventbrite.com or just turn up on the day.
Meet at King’s Cross Station under station clock tower
Lambeth: Culture, Community & Change
Explore the better-known, and the hidden-in-plain-sight,
parts of Waterloo. Discover the stories, people and
architectural treasures in a central London area ripe for
exploration, much of which lies unknown to visitors of the
South Bank.
Meet at Waterloo Underground, York Road exit
Hackney: People & Power on the City’s Doorstep
How does Hoxton’s past inform its present and future?
Compare almshouses and council housing, parks, libraries, music halls, a power station and Hoxton market. How did the powerful provide for the poor, and where their wealth come from? Discover what is meant by ‘More Light, More Power!’
Meet at Hoxton Station, Museum of the Home exit
Westminster: Visionaries
Join us on a stroll around the backstreets of Pimlico where we will meet the visionaries whose struggles for their future shaped our present, including artists, master builders, sewage engineers, social reformers, suffragettes and secret agents.
Meet at Pimlico Station
City of London: How the Past Shapes the City
See how history still quietly runs the show: a 17th century Wren tower that still shapes modern architecture; ancient livery companies which are still relevant; a Roman influenced 1990s floor plan; why we still use medieval street names. The past never left — it just keeps living with us!
You may book a place at llgd-city.eventbrite.co.uk or just turn up on the day.
Meet at Cannon St Station by M&S Food
