Guided Tours

Guided tours worth booking: walks led by people who know the streets, and the bus, river and cycling tours that earn their fare. Open one and the map shows the ground it covers, from where it meets.

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London Bridge with David

Borough's alleys with a guide who has lived on these streets, ending at one of the oldest pubs in London.

Walking

David has been a Londoner all his life and walks the south bank the way somebody does who has had reason to know it closely: along the river first, then off into the lanes behind Borough, past the market, the cathedral, the old prison and a dig most people walk over without noticing.

What separates it from the other walks over this ground is that the inequality is not a footnote. Southwark has been where London put what it did not want to look at for four hundred years, and David talks about the modern version of that from the inside rather than as social history.

Unseen Tours is run as a social enterprise: the guides have all experienced homelessness, they are paid for the walk, and most of the ticket goes to them.

Where
Outside London Bridge station, by the Shipwrights Arms on Tooley Street
Nearest station
London Bridge · 1 min walk

Adult £18, concessions £15, children under 15 £1 with a paying adult; book ahead, no tickets at the meeting point

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