London is a vibrant city with something for everybody. Shopping, art, theatre, museums or simply exploring 2000 years of history. To make the most of any visit to London a personal guide can help bring the city to life and reveal aspects that would otherwise remain hidden.
That is where I come in, a qualified Blue Badge Guide with a love of the city and a passion for sharing what I know with others. Whether it’s an overview of the city in a car, a visit to a popular site like the Tower of London or a walk around a part of the City I can help make your visit both informative and just as importantly entertaining. If you would like to travel a little further afield, Oxford perhaps, Stratford or Stonehenge I can arrange to get you there and share what I know with you during the course of the day.
So if you would like to know a little more about the walks, the site visits or out of London tours then get in touch. You can contact me by phone on 07525 356520 or visit my contact page
“Chris’s tours are always interesting and full of the unknown. I have done four of his tours now and they get better every time.”
Garrick74, via TripAdvisor
“Chris is an excellent guide and a pleasant companion. There is a lot of information to take in but he explains everything in a way that makes it easy to understand.”
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“A very impressive tour. Fusing an impressive mix of knowledge and entertainment. I’m looking forward to his next selection of new tours.”
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About Me
After twenty years calling London home, I still haven’t run out of stories to tell about it, which is really the whole point. This is a city with layers most visitors, and plenty of locals, never get shown, and helping people discover those layers is what I love most about the job.
Before London, I qualified as a Chemical Engineer in 1975 and spent 35 years in the Oil Industry, including a Masters Degree in Petroleum Engineering from Imperial College London and postings across the UK and overseas: Cairo, Canton, and later the USA, Russia, Argentina, Vietnam, South Korea, Angola and Azerbaijan. It’s an unusual route into tour guiding, but it means I bring a slightly different eye to London’s history, as interested in how the city actually works as I am in its kings, queens and scandals.
I’ve now been a qualified Blue Badge Guide, the UK’s most rigorous tour guiding qualification, for over 15 years, and it’s given me the chance to put that curiosity to proper use. It’s why I’ve built out 19 different walking tours, from Westminster and Windsor to Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel, the legal world of the Inns of Court, and Battersea’s ongoing regeneration, plus site visits and day trips further afield to Oxford, Stratford and Stonehenge. Whatever your interest, there’s very likely a tour for it, and if there isn’t yet, I’ll happily build one.
I’m married to Jean, from Aberdeen, and between us we have three sons, all married, and six delightful granddaughters.
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