CORONA VIRUS - BRANCH COUNCIL IS BEHIND YOU We would like to reassure the membership that Branch Council supports the membership of APTG at this very difficult time for the profession and will support you all as far as we can.

Danny Alex Alfie Talman Parlour Hetherington Treasurer APTG Secretary Chair

Tricia Ellis Victoria Herriott Edwin Lerner Aaron Hunter

Craig Kao Amy Wang Maria Gartner Nan Mousley

NEXT MEMBERS’ OPEN MEETING The next Members’ Open Meeting is due Also in this issue: on Tuesday, 14 April at the Unite HQ NEW FACES, NEW FEES - PAGE 3 Theobald’s Road, WC1X 8TN at 6:30 pm RUSSIANS IN - PAGE 4 At this meeting any proposed changes to the structure of the HITHCOCK’S EAST END - PAGE 5 APTG fee sheet will be discussed. However, due to the WORDSWORTH 250 - PAGE 6 ongoing situation with the corona virus, please check email notifications nearer the time to find out whether the meeting PRUDIE FINCH - PAGE 7 will be taking place or needs to be postponed to a later date. PORTSMOUTH VISIT - PAGE 8

ASSOCIATION OFASSOCIATION PROFESSIONAL OF PROFESSIONALTOURIST GUIDES TOURIST GUIDES www.guidelondon.org.ukwww.guidelondon.org.uk September 2019 April 2020 Union news THE CORONA VIRUS: FACTS AND FEARS Co-ordinated Action by Guiding Organisations What is being done for blue badge guides Advice on fighting the corona virus APTG, the Institute of Tourist Guiding, the Guild, and the Frequent and thorough hand-washing: twenty seconds with Driver Guides Association have all agreed to come together soap and hot water or sanitiser gel (if you can access it) is for the benefit of their members at this exceptional time to: recommended. Dry with - and dispose of - a paper towel. - demonstrate leadership Avoid touching nose, mouth and eyes with unwashed hands. - inform Use a paper tissue if sneezing or coughing. - advise Stay away from people who are ill. - reassure Try to stay three steps away from other people in your home. - provide interim support If you have high temperature or cough stay home for a week. - prepare for the eventual return to normal. If symptons do not improve, seek medical advice but do not A joint management group is being set up to co-ordinate go to a doctor, medical surgery or hospital. Instead phone communications and initiatives and a Frequently Asked 111 or go online to 111.nhs.uk for advice and information. Questions (FAQ) document has been sent out now as the Financial assistance first sign of this joined-up approach. This FAQ document will be added to the Members Sections of the respective The Benevolent Fund is there to assist blue badge guides websites. There will likely be updates and they will be who have been qualified for a year or longer. If you wish to communicated as and when they are available. ask for assistance - or would just like to chat - please contact the Chair of the fund Carole Hiley by email at Names of those in the Management Group are included at [email protected] or any other member of the the end of this document. In the meantime, please continue Benevolent Fund committee, whose contact details can be to rely on APTG for support and advice. found on the APTG website. All of us are aware that this is a very difficult and worrying Universal Credit or Contributory Employment and time for our members. We will be working together on Support Allowance: Unite advises us that self-employed initiatives and will be in touch shortly with details. people can now more easily make a claim for Universal Danny Parlour - Chair, APTG Credit or Contributory Employment and Support Allowance. Marilyn Collis - President, Institute of Tourist Guiding For the duration of the outbreak, the requirements of the Elizabeth Eastwood - Chair, British Guild of Tourist Guides Universal Credit Minimum Income Floor will be temporarily Angela Akehurst - Chair, Driver Guide Association relaxed for those who have COVID-19 or are self-isolating With thanks also to Nigel Rundstrom. according to government advice, ensuring self-employed The FAQ document can be viewed at GuideLondon.org. claimants will receive support. GUIDE LONDON REPORT YOUR BRANCH COUNCIL VISITORS AND LEADS Danny Parlour - Chair The website achieved 25,469 unique visitors for February, the 17th Alex Hetherington - Secretary consecutive month with over 20,000. I have noticed a slight slowdown and, Alfie Talman - Treasurer assuming this relates to concerns about coronavirus, will monitor activity in Tricia Ellis - Sie Liaison March when we normally see a surge for the busy season. Maria Gartner - CPD 267 leads were generated in February, a slight improvement on January Victoria Herriott - Membership (256 leads). It is also an improvement on last February (241 leads). Aaron Hunter - CPD Top 3 tours: Classic London (17), Westminster Abbey (14), Tower (8). Craig Kao - Technology BLOG POSTS Edwin Lerner - Guidelines Thanks to blog editor Anne Pollak we have added three new posts: Nan Mousley - Membership Shopping for Valentine’s Day Gifts of Love by Jeanie Carmichael Amy Wang - Mandarin issues The Women of Westminster Abbey by Antony Robbins Famous Russians in London by Edwin Lerner (see also page four). APTG’s administrator MULTI-LANGUAGE PROJECT: Anna Simpson is slowly I am working out a plan with Pedalo to start in March. Pedalo must upgrade returning to work and will share duties with Wordpress and related plug-ins used in the GuideLondon website. We have Sara Colclough who has not done this since last Spring and it is overdue. The plan is to upgrade and been standing in for her. test on the website before changes are made to the live website. Welcome back, Anna. Ursula Petula-Barzey

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NEW FACES NEW FEES We would like to welcome the newly New fees for guiding engagements come into effect qualified guides who passed their from 1 April until 31 March 2021. London exams recently and have now They can be seen in full in the members area of the been awarded the blue badge. Their GuideLondon website, together with our terms, results come out in late March/early conditions and cancellation charges. April and the names of those who have In summary the new fees are: qualified will be printed in the May Half day (English) £17 6 edition of Guidelines. Photo Paul Metcalfe Half day (language) £203 A reception was held for those taking Full day (language) £288 their exams at Unite on 10 March in which they were welcomed into the New (and older) Full day (language) £322 guides at Unite guiding profession in what will obviously The lunch allowance remains at £12. be a very difficult year for guides. Eric Thompson (above) has taken over duties in The reception was organised by Nan Mousley and several relation to fees. If you have any problems with tour operators and guides spoke at the meeting to advise new being paid please contact him at this email: guides on what was expected of them and what APTG could [email protected] offer to those starting on their careers.

Pamela Laycock MARCH MEETING of Spectra meets The March Members’ Open Meeting some new guides was well-attended with inevitably a good deal of discussion on the corona virus issue. The meeting was preceded by a talk from John Williams (pictured) on the role of a heritage consultant, who gives advice to owners and custodians of historic properties and guides them through the planning application process, one which includes Owen Joseph a legal requirement for a heritage assessment. discovers the finer points of wine tasting DIARIES from a newly trained guide No diaries have been issued this month. Due to the ever-changing situation with venues closing, often at short notice, guides are asked to keep updated via email and through information direct from the sites.

GUIDES SET UP THEIR OWN TOURS APTG member Pepe Martinez is hoping to organise a series of summer CPDs to provide opportunities for guides as there is so little work available at present. He is looking into the possibility of live broadcasting the walks on Facebook and doing remote lectures so that people can log into them at home. A trial tour was set up in late March with an East End walk. Pepe would like to thank all those guides who have offered their services and suggests setting up a GoFundMe page to finance these walks/talks. If any members would like to become involved in this project, to lead a tour or lecture and are tech savvy enough to deal with the technology, please contact Pepe at: [email protected] or on 07956 919229.

Pepe Martinez (left) and introducing guides to East End street art (right)

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL TOURIST GUIDES 3 www.guidelondon.org.uk April 2020 cpd reports THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING Jerry Miller introduces us to Russian influences in London - both past and present

Some of us still know him as Yura Brengauz but our Russian expert at What every APTG now uses the Anglicised name oligarch needs: of Jerry Miller. He was born in Melnichenko’s , works with Russian groups yacht at Tower and individuals and gave us a Bridge in 2016 fascinating talk on ‘Russian Emigres, Spies and Oligarchs in London’.

Historically, one of the most famous figures to come to England from Russia was Peter the Great, the tsar who came Although the very wealthy dominate the headlines they make to learn about ship building in 1698 and spent three months up only one per cent of the Russians resident here. It is not here - ‘incognito’ according to Jerry. That must have been always a safe haven as Putin’s security services are difficult as he was six foot eight inches tall and had a huge notoriously ruthless when it comes to pursuing the awkward entourage including a bodyguard of soldiers who were all as squad overseas. There have been at least six suspicious tall as him. There is a monument to this larger than life figure deaths of prominent Russians in London, amongst them the at 33 Glaisher Street, Deptford near where he stayed. poisoned journalist Alexander Litvinchenko (the subject of the play A Very Expensive Poison) and Abrahamovich’s former Peter the Great friend Boris Berenzovsky, who was found hanged at his by Godfrey Kneller Surrey home in 2013. (r) at Kensington Palace and (l) by London also attracted the founders of communism. Lenin, Michail Shemyakin Tolstoy and Marx all lived here and the Karl Mark Memorial at Deptford where Library in Clerkenwell (marx-memorial-library.org.uk) is a he lived in London major voice in keeping alive the message of London’s most

famous revolutionary and creator of the communist

philosophy who is buried in Highgate Cemetery.

There are between three and five hundred thousand Russian Anna speakers in London, three quarters from the former USSR, Pavlova many of them descended from those who were unable or statue (l) at unwilling to return to Russia after the Second World War. You Victoria and can hardly blame them for this reluctance. The British plaque (r) at Golders government returned the Cossacks to Russia after the war Green and most of these were sent straight to gulags in Siberia. It is fair to say that Stalin was not in a forgiving mood after the

Russians lost around twenty five million people in the Second World War. Amongst those here with Russian parentage or ancestry are actors Helen Mirren, David Suchet and Peter Jerry told us about other famous Russians who have visited Ustinov, the writer Stephen Poliiakoff, former politician Nick or lived in the capital: Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, Clegg and the recently deceased Jonathan Miller. and the ballerina Anna Pavlova, whose home was in Ivy House, Golders Green. She not only had a dessert named Of course, everyone wants to know about the oligarchs and after her but her statue is on top of the Victoria Palace Rich List is crowded with Russian theatre. There are artists like Naum Gabo and Boris Anrep, billionaires who took advantage of the opportunities available whose mosaics decorate the floor of the National Gallery, for amassing wealth after the collapse of communism. These founded by John Julius Angerstein, born in St Petersburg. include the owners of Chelsea and Arsenal football clubs, Roman Abrahamovich and Alisander Usmanov; Mikhail We also found out about the many places to eat and drink Fidman, who owns the magnificent Athlon House in Highgate Russian style in London and saw slides of Russian war (often called Witanhurst) and Yelena Baturina, the richest memorials, including one in South Kensington which was woman amongst them, who comes 158th on the list but still vandalised, probably because it commemorated victims of has more money than the Queen. One of them, Andrei communism. It seems that London is never far from the Melnichenko, moored his £225 million yacht next to HMS minds of the Russian authorities. Belfast in September 2016. Edwin Lerner (photographs courtesy of Jerry/Yura)

4 cpd reports HITCHCOCK’S EAST END Steve Szymanski leads a tour of the childhood home of the great film director

It was while cutting his teeth in the film business that Alfred met his wife Alma, who converted to the Catholic faith before they were married at the Brompton Oratory. She remained by his side and helped him with his films until the end. After they died both were cremated and their ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean. Steve recounted stories of Hitchcock’s life and long career, touching on his obsession with the actress Tippi Hedren, who starred in The Birds and Marnie with Sean Connery. The part of Marnie was originally going to be played by Princess Grace of Monaco, who had worked with the Hitchcock director as Grace Kelly. Her husband Prince Rainier, mural however, vetoed his wife’s planned comeback. After eight years on Branch Council, Steve Szymanski A plaque (left) marks the place is taking a well-earned break. However, he still found where Hitchcock was born which time to take a group of guides on a walk based on the is now a Jet petrol station. There famous London-born film director Alfred Hitchcock. is also a Hitchcock Business

Park and several murals The most famous film director to come out of Britain spent dedicated to him in the area half his life here before leaving for Hollywood at the age of where he grew up. At an early forty on the Queen Mary in 1939, headhunted as a age he was sent to the local police station by his father as promising director by producer David O Selznick. a punishment for misbehaviour and police stations and Hitchcock was born and brought up in the East End and it Arcadi Monastery scenes inspired by Catholic guilt often appear in his films. was there that we headed for Steve’s walking tour. He was The borough, where the footballer David Beckham and the born into a Roman Catholic family and there are several photographer David Bailey were born, remembers Hitch Hitchcocks buried in St Patrick’s Catholic Cemetery together with a series of murals at Leytonstone Underground Station. with Mary Kelly, the final victim of Jack the Ripper, and Timothy Evans, wrongly hanged for the murder of his wife who had in fact been killed by John Reginald Christie. Evans was pardoned and Christie eventually executed for the murder of Beryl Evans. Hitchcock, always fascinated by the macabre, imagined the story in his film Frenzy. HIitch was famous for appearing in his own films in cameo roles. Steve told us that the habit began when one of the actors with a role in an early film failed to show up and, not wantingScene from to find The anotherCrown one and on a tight schedule, Hitchcok took on the role himself and after this the habit stuck. He could always be relied on to bring in his films on time and within their budget, which was one of the qualities what earned him the chance to work in Hollywood. Hitchcock mural at Leytonstone Underground Station - the film is He never forgot his roots in The Man Who Knew Too Much with the director in the background London, however, and is remembered every August These feature scenes from his films, often with his famous with a film festival at St profile. We ended our walk there but some of us went on John the Baptist church as with Steve to Gants Hill tube station which was designed by well as several memorials Charles Holden in the 1930s and was inspired by ’s in the Leyton area. The famous metro stations, for which Holden was a consultant. most dramatic of these is a Steve even offered to take us on to Newbury Park bus mural representing The station, which is also of great architectural interest, but we Birds, one of his famous felt that we had covered enough ground by then. In any One in the eye - Hitch and a bird films based on a Daphne case, we were not wearing our anoraks. du Maurier short story. Look closely and you will see his lugubrious outline in the eye of one of the birds. Edwin Lerner (who also took the photographs).

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL TOURIST GUIDES 5 www.guidelondon.org.uk April 2020 guiding news

WORDSWORTH 250 NATIONAL TRUST 125 2020 sees the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Portrait of William National Trust by Octavia Hill, Hardwicke Rawnsley and Wordsworth by Robert Hunter. The Trust is now Europe’s largest Robert Haydon. conservation charity. It owns: The painting was 780 miles of coastline made in 1842 250,000 hectares (600,000 acres) of land when the poet 500 houses, castles, parks, gardens and was aged seventy one million works of art. two and had been Poet Laureate for The Trust has 5.6 million members, 65,000 volunteers and almost thirty employs 14,000 staff with a turnover of over £600 million pa. years, a post he was to hold until his death in 1850. JEWELS - DISCOVERY AND DISPLAY The painting is A spectacular late Roman jewel shaped like a horse was reproduced by unearthed in a field near the village of Leasingham at a Cattle trough, Spaniard’s Road permission of the Detecting for Veterans charity Yorkevent University recently. CampusIt will go on National Portrait display in Lincoln later this year. Meanwhile a 600 year old Gallery where it brooch found in a Northamptonshire field by a metal is on display. detectorist has been snapped up by the Victoria and Albert Museum and will be displayed next to Queen Victoria’s coronet and Beyonce’s Papillon ring in the near future.

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES CLIMB UP The QS University Rankings indicate that thirteen of the One of Britain’s favourite poets, William Wordsworth was born world’s top forty eight universities are British. The University 250 years ago on 7 April 1770. Although he never cared much of Sussex ranked highest for developmental studies, the for London and preferred his beloved Lake District, Royal College of Art for art and design and King’s College, Wordsworth wrote the famous poem Upon Westminster London for dentistry. The US remains dominant in higher Bridge when he and his sister Dorothy were leaving the education, coming top in thirty subject tables with Harvard capital on their way to France in September 1803. They were ranked best in eleven and the Massachusetts Institute of heading for Calais to visit Annette Vallon, who had been Technology (MIT) in twelve. The rankings are based on Wordsworth’s lover and was the mother of his daughter factors ranging from research to employer confidence. Caroline. He wanted to inform Annette that he wished to marry Mary Hutchison, who became his wife and bore him a AND OUR CARBON EMISSIONS GO DOWN further five children. William, Mary and Dorothy are all buried UK carbon emissions fell by 2.9 per cent in 2019 for the at St Oswald’s Church in Grasmere, where he lived in Dove seventh consecutive year. Emissions from gas have fallen by Cottage before they moved to Rydal Mount a few miles away, a fifth since 2010 but those from oil have declined by only six both houses being museums in memory of Wordsworth. per cent because of strong demand for petrol and diesel. Last UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE year overall emissions declined to 354 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, just above the 1887 level of 352 million Earth has not anything to show more fair: tonnes. International data shows Britain has cut emissions Dull would he be of soul who could pass by faster since 2010 than any other major economy. However, it A sight so touching in its majesty: is not on course to meet legally binding targets. Emissions This City now doth, like a garment, wear should fall by ten per cent over the next decade, well short of The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, the thirty one per cent needed to meet these targets. Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie

Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. DICKENS LETTERS TO DOUGHTY STREET Never did sun more beautifully steep Letters, notes and a drawing of Charles In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Dickens (pictured) have been bought by Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! the Dickens Museum in Doughty Street. The river glideth at his own sweet will: They include instructions on what to Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; serve at dinner and a letter describing And all that mighty heart is lying still! the grief he felt at the death of his sister in law Mary Hogarth, on whom he based Little Nell in The Old Many of the ideas in William’s poems, including this sonnet, Curiosity Shop. The items were collected by a Dickens were inspired by his sister Dorothy, of whom he said in The enthusiast in the USA and were bought by the museum using Sparrow’s Nest: “she gave me eyes, she gave me ears”. grants from the National Heritage Fund.

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RAISE A GLASS TO PRUDIE! Jan Koslover and Rob Williamson remember Prudie Finch

Prudie Finch was an extraordinary She had an extraordinary gift of making people feel special woman. Anyone who encountered her as she was genuinely fascinated by them and the details of for longer than a few minutes would their lives, no matter their background or status. She would quickly realise that she was a woman chat to everyone and I often envied her that gift. Going of great wisdom, humour and fun, anywhere with Prudie always led to new encounters that I eccentric in the most endearing way. would never have had on my own. Understandably her As a young girl she lived with her groups were enchanted by her and received an alternative parents in Nigeria, where she learned view of London, whilst at the same time benefitting from the to speak Hausa. She loved Africa and great wisdom of her life experience. often said that she wanted to return If you were guiding in the early noughties you may well have before she died but sadly never did. seen Prudie with a pink umbrella leading seventy to eighty She had precious memories and students and their teachers as our groups merged together. recalled taking her pony out early, She asked to be pied piper because she just adored it! riding to villages in the bush where As you may have gathered, Prudie was unique. The world they would all exclaim ‘Naughty Prudie! Go home!’ On one and London is the poorer without her. But for those who memorable occasion guides were having coffee in the crossed paths with her it was all the richer - Une Vie en Rose. Westminster Hall café and she talked to a startled waitress in She leaves her beloved husband, Desmond, and daughters, Hausa. They were soon full of laughter and best of friends. Althea and Emma, son Phillip and families. I have received a On her return to England ‘naughty Prudie’ was often number of expressions of condolence and memories from summoned to the headmistress’s office for a misdemeanour, colleagues, and these have been passed to Prudie’s family but no force on earth could suppress her free spirit. She who have been touched to receive them. began her association with tourism looking after Brits Jan Koslover travelling to Spain and her knowledge of Spanish was to stand her in good stead in her blue badge days. When her children Althea, Emma and Phillip were small she devoted herself to them entirely, living in Wimbledon and Prudie Finch by Suffolk. She later purchased a cottage near the River Wandle, Tower Bridge (left) her beloved ‘Daffodil Palace’. This home was very dear to her, and with her dog and her personality was stamped all over it. She loved her Biddly (top) dog, Biddly and her cottage garden. She also loved throwing big birthday parties, sometimes persuading a busker to come and play. Edith Piaf’s La Vie en Rose was her signature tune. When she became interested in studying for the blue badge Saying goodbye to Prudie, while inspiring sadness, is also in 1977, she showed a surprising lack of confidence in her mixed with positive memories of this dynamic, witty and vital ability to learn and took hours of extra coaching and with great lady. She was the embodiment of living life to the full and perseverance finally gained her coveted London blue badge. illuminating the present with sunshine. Just a few qualities Much of her early work was with Guards of London Coaches that spring to mind include her generosity, her ceaseless who had a tour called the River Roundabout. At this time I got support of work colleagues in stressful situations, her to know Prudie and in the late nineties we renewed our wonderful sense of humour and ability to remain unflappable acquaintance. For over a decade a small group of guides in a crisis. We enjoyed several working lunches together, worked on the Student Ambassador Programme set up by often at St Katherine's Dock in the presence of a fully President Roosevelt. It was a golden time of camaraderie and costumed Henry VIII, and some of our most entertaining enormous hilarity. Prudie’s rich life gave her some conversations are associated with those times. extraordinary stories that she loved to relate - and we loved She epitomised an elegance and easy charm that was totally to hear. We looked forward to our coffees at the Tower cafe genuine. Her original and incisive take on history must surely and cocktails after work, usually at the Savoy’s American Bar. have made her commentaries very compelling. That she One memorable occasion was her sixtieth birthday. remained so consistent in all of these wonderful qualities and Prudie’s drink was always a Manhattan Perfect, subtly in all circumstances is a rare trait. I am truly sad we will not different from a Manhattan Classic, with a mix of sweet and have the chance to share an end of season cocktail again, dry vermouth. She would give the recipe if the bartender did but equally grateful for the pleasure of knowing and working not know how to make it. Raise a glass to Prudie; she would with such a classy lady. have been delighted! Rob Williamson

ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL TOURIST GUIDES 7 www.guidelondon.org April 2020 CITY OF SHIPS APTG members go to Portsmouth for the annual Katrine Prince lecture

In honour of International Portsmouth is also where Admiral Tourist Guide Day a group Lord Nelson last stood on British of blue badge guides went soil before sailing with his fleet to defeat the French at the Battle of to visit Portsmouth on 21 Trafalgar in 1805, waved away by February for the annual an enthusiastic crowd at the Katrine Prince lecture in docks. His statue stands by the memory of the woman who harbour walls near where modern did so much for guiding aircraft carriers and other ships of before her untimely death the Royal Navy are berthed and within view of Portsmouth’s new in 2004. Spinnaker Tower, which has been Katrine Prince Nelson’s statue with the a popular attraction since 2005. Spinnaker Tower behind A variety of tours were held in the morning: Spice Island, Nelson Trail, a city coach tour and the Historic Dockyard Australian visitors to Britain might be interested in memorial where Nelson’s ship HMS Victory and The Mary Rose are plaques on the harbour walls. One commemorates the displayed. Later the Royal Naval Club hosted over 100 journey of eleven ships filled with convicts which set sail people, including members of Katrine’s family, for from Portsmouth in 1787 led by Captain Arthur Phillip, who entertaining talks on The Field of Cloth of Gold by Professor became the first Governor of New South Wales. The country Glenn Richardson and The Sinking of the Mary Rose by was then called New Holland but this changed after the term Dominic Fontana, who was involved with the project to raise ‘terra Australis’ (south land) was used by another naval Henry VIII’s flagship from the Solent when it sank in 1545. captain Mathew Flinders who mapped its coastline in Portsmouth is a fascinating city to visit. In the cathedral the 1801/2. He had just been married but the new Mrs Flinders body of one of those on the Mary Rose was reburied as a was not allowed onto the ship, waves and wives not being memorial to over 300 men who died when it sank. Named considered good companions in naval lore. She had to wait after Henry’s sister, the warship had been battling an nine years before her husband returned as he was invading French fleet but a gust of wind led to water pouring imprisoned for by the French governor of Mauritius on the through the open gunports and its sudden sinking. journey home. Flinders’ grave has been rediscovered recently as a result of the HS2 excavations and he will be reburied in his home village of Donington in Lincolnshire.

Matthew Flinders, Royal Navy captain who mapped the coast of New Holland and changed 3 its name to Australia. Savile

Thanks to Jo Hoad and Rachel Pearson for organising this event and to Hard at work: APTG members (from left) Aaron Hunter, Nigel all the Portsmouth guides Rundstrom, Alex Hetherington, Victoria Herriott & Danny Parlour who led the tours.

Thanks to Augusta Harris, Jan Koslover, Pepe Martinez, Jerry Miller, Steve Szymanski, Rob Williamson and all other contributors

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