LONDON EXPLORERS GROUP

 
 

This page lists events in the current LEG programme which are bookable.

These events are open to all, whether on the LEG mailing/waiting list or not.


To book, use the email link next to each event title.

If for some reason your email programme will not work with this link – and some users have reported this problem – please email separately using the address on the Contact page.

Aug

Wed 29

STRAWBERRY HILL    book this walk

Guided tour of Horace Walpole’s ground-breaking 18th century Gothick house down by the river in Twickenham, newly restored and now run by a charitable trust instead of the teacher training college that occupied it for many years. Café on site. Cost £15, pay on the day. Meet 10.30. Further details will be advised on booking.

Jul

ROMAN LONDON    book this walk

Guided walk including access to amphitheatre and two other sites not normally open to the public (the London Wall fort gate and the Billingsgate bathhouse). Led by Harvey Sheldon, ex-Museum of London archaeologist and now research fellow at Birkbeck. Cost £15, pay on the day. Meet 11.00. Further details will be advised on booking.

May

Wed 23

ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL    book this walk

Guided tour taking in the cathedral floor, the crypt and the galleries in the dome area – plus the Chapel of St Michael & St George and the choir stalls, neither of which are normally open to the public. Cost £20, pay on the day. Meet 11am. Further details will be advised on booking.

Jun

THE STONES OF CLERKENWELL    book this walk

A geology walk with Diana Clements, author of the London geology guide, looking at old and new building stones in the vicinity of Farringdon station, ie around Clerkenwell, Smithfield, Charterhouse, Barts and Holborn viaduct. Cost £10, pay on the day. Meet 11.00. Further details will be advised on booking. (NB: repeat from April)

Sat 23

Wed 18

Jun

Mon 11



DRAPERS’ HALL    book this walk

Tour of historic livery hall in Throgmorton Street, home to the Drapers since they acquired Thomas Cromwell’s house three years after the unfortunate minister’s execution. Led by the company archivist. Includes tea/coffee and biscuits. Cost £10, pay on the day. Meet 10.30. Further details will be advised on booking.