Here at London Heritage Training we believe that tour guiding is a form of performance art.
The role of the tour guide involves opening the eyes of the client to details they wouldn’t otherwise have seen and firing their imagination with tales they wouldn’t otherwise have heard. Our London Heritage Guides peel back the layers of London, reveal its stories and bring the past to life.
On this page you will find articles written by London Heritage Guides about the London stories they have explored while studying on our tour guiding course.
Music Maestros by Jon Card
The guided walk that I developed for the walk design assignment on Caroline’s Tour Guiding course was entitled “Music Maestros: A musical history tour of Mayfair and Soho”. It begins near the north end of South Molton Street, behind Bond Street Underground Station, and ends in Soho Square, taking in 12 stops over two hours.…