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Oscar Wilde’s West End
Oscar said, ’The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.’
Follow in the footsteps of Oscar and his boyfriend Bosey on their crusade to get London society to accept them as they really were. But then they ran into the Victorian Age’s most ferocious homophobe, the 9th Marquis of Queensbury. Pass the Savoy Hotel, The Café Royale, the Theatre Royal Haymarket. (Reviewed in Time Out.)
Dickens by Gaslight
Come to The Temple - London’s 18th Century lawyers’ land. Still bathed in Victorian gaslight. You’ll get a healthy whiff of Dickens and a goodly smattering of the da Vinci Code. EC4 to WC2.
Harry Potter's London
JK Rowling may be finished with Harry, but we're certainly not. This tour takes muggles of all ages inspired by the young wizard around the locations you'll know from all seven volumes. Visit platform 9 3/4, the Leaky Cauldron, the spires of Kings Cross station and the real Diagon Alley. [Flyer]
Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle
London is certainly the home of the world's most famous detective. We take in locations from Arthur's life and incidents from various stories of Holmes and Watson. Highlights include the Sherlock Homes Museum, the British Museum Reading Room and the Northumberland Arms. [Flyer]
Will On The Hill - Blackfriars
In January 1606 William Shakespeare (almost) certainly stood where the western steps of St Paul’s are now located, to watch the hanging, drawing and quartering of several of his friends involved in the Gunpowder Plot.
The Mayfair Mitfords
The Mayfair Mitfords. 1920s High Society, seen through the eyes of an exceptional family. The Mitfords went on to become a national institution, producing writers, campaigners, socialites. Writer Nancy, the Duchess of Devonshire, revolutionary Decca, fascist Unity, saintly mother Stanley, mad Uncle Matthew, beautiful Diana and her fateful love for Oswald ’Tom’ Mosley - we try and get them all in.
Peter Pan and Kensington Gardens
The writer James Barrie told the story of Peter Pan to the five sons of Sylvia and Arthur Lewellyn-Davies over a number of years in Kensington Gardens, about the boy who is half bird, grows up on Duck Island in the Serpentine, and each night after Lock Out, goes looking for the Lost Children. Explore magical Kensington Gardens, with the Elfin Oak, the stunning Albert Memorial, tranquil Peter Pan and the Princess Diana Memorial Playground and Fountain.
The Bohemians - Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia was Bohemia. Between the wars this was ’it’, the haunt of Dylan Thomas, Augustus John, George Orwell, Aleister Crowley and the rest. The Bohemians had only one purpose in life - to shock the Middle Classes. So they fought, they drank, they stole, they shagged. They called it Fitzrovia because it was the little world that surrounded the Fitzroy Tavern in Charlotte Street, their favourite boozer. This is where the war was fought, and won, to wrest control of the intellectual soul of Britain off the upper classes.
Elizabeth David and Swinging London
The Chelsea few know. The Cadogan Estate, Sloane Square and Ebury Shopping Village. A foodie’s walk through the eyes of the great 1960's food and cookery writer Elizabeth David, guru to the likes of Nigella, Jamie or Gordon.
Hemingway's London - Hammersmith
Behind the High Street, find tranquility beside the river Thames, in Ernest Hemingway’s favourite London pub, The Dove on the water’s edge.
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