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UNITE THE UNION FOR YOU GGUUIIDDEELLIINNEESS READY FOR BUSINESS - YOUR NEW BRANCH COUNCIL Left to right: Nick Hancock, Ruth Polling, Steve Szymanski, Sue Hadley, Danny Parlour, Angela Morgan, Alex Hetherington, Anne-Marie Walker, Alfie Talman, Ruth RossingtonAlso on Branch Council is Dominic Burris North (not in the photograph). READY FOR A ROYAL WEDDING Staff at Windsor Castle are being encouraged Prince at the Invictus Games. She is currently to watch the American television series Suits in a US citizen but hopes to take up British which Meghan Markle plays Rachel Zane so citizenship after her marriage when the couple that they can identify guests at the wedding of will move into Nottingham Cottage at Prince Harry and Ms Markle at St George’s Kensington Palace. She will bring her dog Guy Chapel in May. to their new home but another dog called Bogart has been given a new home with St George’s was las used for a royal wedding friends as he is too old to fly. when Princess Anne’s son Peter Phillips married Autumn Kelly in 2008. Five of Queen Victoria’s The couple’s engagement ring is set in yellow children, including the future Edward VII were gold and features three diamonds. The central married there and it was also used for the stone is a diamond from Botswana, a country Also in this issue blessing of the marriage of Prince Charles and Prince Harry has often visited and where the • LETTTER FROM THE NEW CHAIR the Duchess of Cornwall. couple have spent time together. Flanking the NICK HANCOCK – PAGE 2 Miss Markle, who is three years older than central stone are two diamonds from the • THE FUTURE FOR APTG – PAGE 3 Prince Harry, was previously married to the collection of his late mother Diana, Princess of • CRIME PAYS! – PAGE 4-5 actor Trevor Ingleson. She has been living in Wales. The ring, which is valued at over • GUIDING NEWS – PAGE 6-7 Toronto where Suits is filmed and where she £50,000, was designed by the Prince and made made her first public appearance with the by royal jewellers Cleave and Company. EL • THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INSTITUTE – PAGE 8 ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL TOURIST GUIDES www.guidelondon.org.uk January 2018 Union news LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Guides are by temperament and training members . We would particularly welcome inquisitive individuals and you will have involvement from time served members noticed already the new photograph although young whipper snappers are illustrating this column. I'm immensely wanted too. We want your knowledge, pleased, proud and a little bit awed to have experience and energy so please let any of been elected Chair of this wonderful us know if you'd like to become more organisation. APTG exists to work for, and involved in your Guiding organisation. to support professional Blue Badge Tourist We are approaching the festive season as I Guides working in London and I am looking write , and I would like to wish everyone , forward to playing my part in doing this. however you are spending this time to have Branch Council met together in November a happy, joyful holiday. Relax, reflect on the and we spent a day discussing what we did last twelve months and let's all look well, what we wanted to achieve, and how forward to a wonderful season guiding in best to do it. We wanted to be forward 2018. The Harry and Meghan bounce looking not fire fighting. We all want to should bring record numbers of visitors to provide support, training and work London. Visitor numbers are rising year on opportunities for London Blue Badge Guides year so let us look forward to showing and have come up with a plan to achieve them the best that London has to offer. this which is shown in the next page. It's Best wishes, Nick Hancock what we will focus our efforts on this year and, whilst many members saw this at the AGM and were able to vote on its adoption, Scorecard for: guidelondon.org.uk I want everyone to understand the direction SUMMARY Sept-17 Oct-17 Nov-17 of travel for next year. Whilst some things Traffic on the agenda may be relatively quick to Visitor Sessions 17,098 18,071 27,087 achieve others will take a little longer. Our Unique Visitors 14,673 15,467 24,013 intention is to focus our efforts on these Pageviews 29,404 29,850 41,789 things. New Content I do want to thank and pay tribute to all Blog Posts Added 407 those who worked on Branch Council last Engagement Activity year - and who having made their Searches - GuideMatch 442 333 366 contribution are standing down for a well- Searches - Find A Guide 1,921 1,734 2,423 deserved breather. Without the Searches - Homepage Find 116 115 117 contributions of Liz Rubenstein, Leon Searches - General across the site 349 372 448 Preston, Isabel Wrench and Lesley Gardner Blog/Tour banners for GuideMatch 253 273 257 the APTG Council would have been a much Leads – Category A less fun group, and would not have got GuideMatch - Main Landing Page 44 33 38 done all that it did. The involvement of GuideMatch - Individual Tours 129 121 124 Derek Tarr - holder of the three Great GuideMatch - Foreign Language Pages 7 11 6 FindAGuide: Direct Emails to Guides 69 82 68 Offices of State (Chair, Secretary and Contact Us 6 10 7 latterly Treasurer) and Steve Szymanski who Mass Emails 1 21 was Chair for a breathtaking four years are Total 256 259 244 worthy of special mention. Steve must surely be a glutton for punishment as he is Leads – Category B FindAGuide: Clicks to Guide Websites 96 111 121 staying on Branch Council. Social Media Fans 14,148 14,349 14,552 We have an exciting year ahead, and if Newsletter Subscribers 4,058 4,097 6,191 you'd like to play an active part - perhaps hosting a social event, becoming a Site APOLOGY Liaison Guide, offering a CPD or giving your Sue Hyde was wrongly credited for the article on the Senate House in the time to Branch Council - please get in last issue. 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KAREN SHARPE took guides on a west end walk through Christie country while new chair NICK HANCOCK showed them how to dispose of a body in the east end. AGATHA CHRISTIE WALK Most of us know the immaculately turned out detective Hercule Poirot or the gentle and appealing, but oh so sharp, Miss Jane Marple, but what do we know about the creator of these characters, the author Agatha Christie? This walk was going to fill us in. It seems that in many of her stories people sooner or later end up at the Ritz and this is where we started. Agatha Miller was born in Torquay in 1890, into a relatively well-off family. But after her father’s death, money became an issue. Her coming out took place in Cairo, where she was much more West End. Outside St Martin’s Theatre, home to the interested in men than the local archaeological world’s longest running play The Mousetrap, we sites (that would change later as we would see at heard that over 440 actors have appeared since the British Museum) and she married Archibald 1952: they are changed each Christmas.