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WALKING TOURS All Hallows by the Tower ABOUT THE WALKS As the oldest church in the City of London, All Hallows by the Tower has more than 1300 years of history to be WA L K I N G The All Hallows' Walking Tours are led by the discovered under one roof. guides Pete Smith and Frances Spackman. TOURS Located next to the Tower of London, Both are former the church has cared for numerous university teachers and, in beheaded bodies over the years, January-June addition to being regular including those of Thomas More, 2020 contributors to the free John Fisher and Archbishop Laud. afternoon highlight tours William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania) of All Hallows church, was baptised in the church in 1644, and they are both qualified A Brief HistoryJohn Quincyof Adams - sixth president of and experienced City of the USA - was married here in 1797. London Guides. Artefacts associated with the Saxon The walks they have devised draw upon the rich and Roman history of the church diversity of London's two cities - the City of are displayed in the Crypt Museum, London and the City of Westminster - giving old All Hallows by the Tower alongside a range of fascinating objects hands and newcomers alike an introduction to from ancient church registers to a some of the oddities and complexities of the Knights Templar altar. capital's rich and colourful history. The walking tours cover a variety of themes, looking at the city from many different angles and perspectives. Please check the brochure carefully for the details of start times and departure points, as these do vary according to the All Hallows theme and route of the individual walks. by the Unless otherwise stated, the charge is £10.00 per person and the walks take between ninety Contact Information Tower minutes and two hours. All Hallows by the Tower Church In addition to the advertised walking tours, Byward Street, London EC3R 5BJ Pete also organises tailor-made walks for groups. Tel: 020 7481 2928 Email: [email protected] Just contact him with your requirements and he www.ahbtt.org.uk would be happy to arrange something for you. Twitter: @AllHallowsTower A Christian Beacon on email: [email protected] Facebook.com/ahbtt Tower Hill since 675AD or call: 0775 229 2524 Registered Charity No. 1129137 PROGRAMME PROGRAMME PROGRAMME TOWER TO GUILDHALL DICKENS GOES WEST THE CITY’S BRIDGES Monday 20 January Saturday 4 April Friday 22 May (starts All Hallows: 2pm) (starts Charing Cross: 11am) (starts All Hallows: 11am) This walk starts at All Hallows and links Starting from the forecourt of Starting from inside All Hallows two (often opposed) centres of power Charing Cross Station in front of church, this walk takes in all the in the City. The Tower of London was the entrance to the Charing Cross City’s Bridges before ending built by William 1 after his invasion of Hotel, this walk explores an area that Charles Dickens close to St Paul’s Cathedral. Along the way, you will hear England in 1066, not so much to defend London as to knew well and used in many of his novels. It passes the about the bridge that sprouted heads, the elephant that intimidate the City, whose own centre of government is street where both Dickens and David Copperfield had walked across the Thames, a daredevil pilot and a quick- Guildhall. On our way between the two, we shall examine lodgings, the church where Dickens’s parents were witted bus driver. Royal links with the City as well as City customs and married, and the site of the infamous slum that was the institutions dating from Roman times to the present. You model for “Tom-all-Alone’s” in Bleak House. Finally, it DICKENS & THE LAWYERS will hear stories of some colourful Lord Mayors (including reaches the fringes of legal London – a district so Saturday 6 June a killer and a pantomime hero!), follow the route of a important in Dickens’s life as well as his fictions that we (starts Temple tube: 11am) Royal Coronation, and visit a range of sites including have given it a walk of its own, “Dickens & the Lawyers”. After meeting outside Temple Mansion House, St Mary-le-Bow of Bow Bells fame, and Underground Station, we shall Guildhall, ending on the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral. THE VICTORIAN CITY make our way via the historic and Saturday 18 April picturesque Inns of Court to the Dickens House Museum LET’S ALL GO DOWN THE (starts Monument: 2pm) in Doughty Street. On the way, we shall see, in addition STRAND The nineteenth century was to the highlights of Dickens’s legal London: a lamb and a Saturday 15 February perhaps the most exciting flying horse, one of the City’s oddest pubs, the building (starts Temple Tube: 11am) period in the history of London, where Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was first staged, and a After meeting outside Temple and this walk aims to reflect memorial to one lawyer who became a saint. Underground Station we follow the that excitement. Starting from the west side of the Strand from the boundary of the City of London to Monument, we shall be following a winding course I SPY STRANGERS: Trafalgar Square. On the way, you will learn about: the through the City, looking at reminders of the enormous FOREIGN PRESENCES engineer who saved a city; the nobleman who demolished achievements of the Victorian age in art, science, finance, IN THE SQUARE MILE a church to build himself a mansion; the revolting architecture and transport, and considering also some of Thursday 18 June peasants whose appetite for sweet wine led to their the many huge problems and challenges that Victorian (starts All Hallows: 11am) death; the cat who is the most frequent diner at the Londoners had to face. The walk will end with a free visit Since its foundation, London has Savoy Hotel; and the oddest street name in London. to the Victorian collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery. been a cosmopolitan city and this walk, which starts from All Hallows SHAKESPEARE’S FOOTSTEPS PADDINGTON TO LITTLE VENICE church maps the contributions made to its development Thursday 5 March Saturday 9 May (starts Paddington station: 2pm) by people whose birthplace lay outside England. You will (starts Guildhall Yard pond: 3.15pm) From the concourse end of Platform 4 at Paddington find out: what the Romans taught us, and what Roman Although we think of Shakespeare as ‘the Station, this walk takes us along the Regent’s Canal, custom is still practised on the Thames; what a group of man from Stratford’, he spent most of his ending close to Warwick Avenue sixteenth century Germans did with the heads displayed creative life in London, and the city left Station. Discover along the way on London Bridge; who got blamed for the Great Fire of its mark on him. This walk, which starts the role the railways and canals London; why London businessmen owe such a debt to from the pond outside St Lawrence Jewry church in played in the life of the capital, Turkey and the Netherlands; why a City church is Guildhall Yard, leads through the core of Shakespeare’s learn about the life of London’s dedicated to a Scandinavian king; and how a whole island London to where he worked and where he spent his “water gypsies”, and encounter a won a medal. leisure time with friends and fellow writers. few quirky surprises. .
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