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The Magic of Britain DISCOVER BRITAIN WITH BRITAIN’S BEST GUIDES GUIDEthe WINTER 2016 THE MAGIC OF BRITAIN The spellbinding history of druids, wizards and witches INSIDE SEVEN TALL TALES – LEGENDS, LIES AND LORE OUR GUIDES’ GUIDE TO NORTHERN IRELAND AND HAMPSHIRE GOING UNDERGROUND WITH THE ROYAL MAIL’S SECRET RAILWAY From Bollywood A CHILD’S EYE VIEW A HULL OF A TIME to St John’s Wood Landscapes from children’s literature Getting naked in the City of Culture THE EVENT #1 ATTRACTIONS | DESTINATIONS | HOTELS Over 2 days, explore the very best hotels, JOIN US AT attractions and destinations from the length and THE ESSENTIAL breadth of the British Isles. Offering a great opportunity to meet existing and source new EXHIBITION DEDICATED suppliers and service providers, your visit will leave TO YOUR INDUSTRY you packed up and ready to go for your next trip! Book your FREE trade ticket quoting Priority Code BTTS105 at WWW.TOURISMSHOW.CO.UK 2 Contents 4 What to see this winter Go underground with Mail Rail; a 600 year wait to visit London’s Charterhouse; burial barrows make a comeback 6 The Guides’ Guide From giants to monsters, our guides reveal their top ten places to visit in Northern Ireland 8 The Magic of Britain Mark King, Chair to the The spellbinding history of druids, witches and wizards British Guild of Tourist Guides and the spells they cast on us to this day A WARM WELCOME 14 Legends, Lies and Lore Fact and fiction from British history TO ‘THE GUIDE’... During these long, dark nights, it’s fitting to 16 A Child’s Eye view of Britain feature two themes that many guides talk about The landscapes and locations that inspired in their tours: children’s literature and witchcraft. children’s literature Let Marc Zakian weave his spell, inspiring you to discover places traditionally connected with 26 The Guides’ Guide magic and sorcery; then Sophie Campbell will Our guides’ top ten places to visit in Hampshire enchant you with her tour of locations and people connected with Britain’s rich heritage of 28 Tour de Force children’s literature. Nothing beats snuggling down with your family to enjoy a good yarn and Two Blue Badge Guides tell us about their tours: from Hull – those two themes offer plenty to entertain the 2017 City of Culture – to an Indian love affair with London children and adults alike. Our two featured guides are Sarah Milne-Day from Yorkshire and Shivani Vahalia-Pareek from London. Each conveys very different interests in their ‘Tour de Force’. Sarah gives us an early insight into the attractions awaiting visitors to Hull, the UK City of Culture for 2017. Grand festivals such as this reflect the transformational power of culture and provide opportunities that encourage visitors to discover a city’s wonderful history, architecture and traditions as well as, of 4 8 course, its people. You’ll find Sarah and her colleagues ready to share their region with you. Shivani takes us on an altogether different cultural tour, as we see London through the eyes of an Indian-born guide. Shivani’s passion for her adoptive city celebrates connections ranging from modern captains of industry, historic political leaders and sporting legends to the capital’s extensive Bollywood film connections. A unique bond shared by both these guides is that they 16 28 both gave birth to babies while studying for their Blue Badge exams – that’s true dedication! Front Cover: Druids at Stonehenge, photo: Marc Zakian If you are a regular reader of this magazine in print or even a first-time reader interested in Editor: Marc Zakian Design and print: finding out more, you may like to know that E: [email protected] MYPEC T: +44 113 257 9646 previous editions are now available on our new Publisher: W: www.mypec.co.uk website at: www.britainsbest guides.org British Guild of Tourist Guides ©2016 Display advertising: In this season of goodwill and of general Blueprint Travel Media T: +44 1743 23 11 35 thanksgiving – and as I take over from Philippa Owen as Chair of the British Guild of Tourist This magazine is produced by the British Guild of Tourist Guides – the national association for Blue Badge Guides (the highest guiding qualification in Britain.) Guides – I would like to thank our readers and Email: [email protected] • www.britainsbestguides.org our visitors, along with editorial team, designers, advertisers, office staff and colleagues for all you have done to make visiting this country an ISSN: 2053-0439 ISSN: unforgettable experience. I extend my very best wishes for a happy and enjoyable 2017. Now, settle back, turn the page and enjoy ENGLAND LONDON WALES NORTHERN SCOTLAND GREEN BADGE IRELAND discovering more of this country in the entertain- ing company of Britain’s best guides! 3 NEWS History, Culture and Events Mail Rail Train, Mail Rail Photos © Miles Willis and The Postal Museum Willis and The Postal © Miles Photos Russell Nash, Blue Badge Guide BRITAIN’S BEST GUIDES Blue Badge Tourist Guides are the official, professional tourist guides of the United Kingdom – recognised by the local tourist bodies and VisitBritain. There are over 1000 Blue Badge Guides in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – each region and nation has its own badge. They guide in all the UK’s major tourist attractions, as well as its cities and countryside. Green Badge Guides have expert local knowledge of particular towns and cities. White Badge Guides Mail Rail Tunnels have detailed knowledge of their specific site. Institute of Tourist Guiding is responsible for setting and maintaining guiding standards across England, Northern Ireland and Jersey. The Institute’s blue, green and white badge qualifications are world renowned and represent a benchmark in quality and professionalism. To gain one of the Institute’s badges guides typically study LAST POST? for up to two years, taking a combination of written and practical examinations to ensure Beneath the streets of the capital lies a miles are deep under London, criss- they reach the Institute’s high standards. For secret railway. Known as Mail Rail, for crossing tube lines and linking six more information visit www.itg.org.uk over a century it transported millions of sorting offices with the mainline railway letters between London’s sorting offices stations at Liverpool Street and British Guild of Tourist Guides until its closure in 2003. Paddington. Operating for 22 hours a is the national association of Britain’s From 2017, visitors will be able to ride day, employing over 220 staff, it once guides. Since its foundation in 1950, the the mail rail as part of a new Postal carried more than four million letters Guild has dedicated itself to raising and Museum. Located in Clerkenwell, the a day. maintaining the highest professional museum will celebrate the life of letters The Mail Rail ride will take visitors on standards and meeting our visitors’ needs. in a series of historic zones. These will a 15 minute journey through a one- Our guides work in the UK’s museums, include the development of the horse- kilometre section of tunnels and around galleries, churches and lead walking, drawn mail coach (and their encounters the original platforms at the Mount cycling, coach, car and driver-guided tours with highwaymen), the history of the Pleasant sorting office station. The trip throughout the country. Our members work modern postage stamp (starting with the will be on a specially-made passenger in over 30 different languages. iconic Penny Black) and the evolution of train. For more information go to the humble pillar box. www.postalmuseum.org To find out more or to book: But the centrepiece is the railway and For walking tours on postal history, +44 20 7403 1115 the tunnels that once ran for over six search www.britainsbestguides.org www.britainsbestguides.org 4 from around the UK Charterhouse Monk Business From 27 January 2017, London’s merchants fallen on hard times, or those Charterhouse will open to the public ruined by calamity’. Sutton also founded for the first time in 600 years. Charterhouse School, whose alumni The former Carthusian monastery was include novelist William Thackeray, built in 1371 on a medieval plague burial scouting pioneer Robert Baden-Powell site. When the monks were brutally and Methodist cleric John Wesley. The purged during the dissolution of the school moved out of London in 1872, monasteries, Charterhouse became a but the brothers – and, in the near mansion for wealthy noblemen and future, sisters – still live in the ancient royalty – Elizabeth I met her ministers community. here before her coronation in 1558. Architect Eric Parry has designed a new In 1611, England’s richest citizen museum, and a ticket will give visitors Thomas Sutton bought Charterhouse, access to a tour through the grounds, establishing a charitable foundation for up gardens and buildings. to 80 Brothers: ‘either decrepit or old For a tour of the surrounding area, captaynes, maimed or disabled soldiers, visit www.britainsbestguides.org The British countryside is home to thousands of ancient burial sites. Stonehenge is famous for its beautiful Bronze Age round barrows, and the mysterious long barrow at West Kennet once held the remains of dozens of ancient Britons. But what about a 21st century burial barrow? Sacred Stones is building a series of ‘ancient’ colombaria across England. The first – at Willow Row in Cambridge – is a round barrow with 345 hand-crafted niches containing cremation urns. Each niche holds between one and five urns, is made of Portland Stone and sealed with beeswax. This is the first round barrow built in Britain for 3,500 years.
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