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Goldsmiths began lending money for
interest. You’ll see the old banking signs
that predate street numbering (and a literate
population) including England’s oldest
private bank at the sign of the Golden Bottle.
We visit the Bank of England Museum where
the story of the nation’s bank is elegantly
presented with life-like models of Georgian
bank clerks, lavish settings, a pyramid of
gold bars and nostalgic crisp white fivers.
We’ll visit an old banking-hall-turned-pub
where you can buy a cup of tea and biscuits
before heading home at 4.45pm.
it is their grand houses, some of the best
preserved early Georgian houses in the
country, that we see. Over the next three
centuries these houses would be home to
successive waves of new arrivals.
What an amazing area this is, quite
unlike anywhere else in London and very
photogenic. We’ll see a soup kitchen for the
Jewish poor, Hawksmoor’s Christ Church
and the sites of some of the Ripper murders.
By Victorian times the silk weavers’ houses
had become crowded lodging houses where
the poor could “sleep on a clothes line”. The
Huguenot chapel later became a synagogue
Barrow Boys
& Bankers
Contrasting stories of rags
and riches in London districts
a stone’s throw from each
other but worlds apart. In
the morning the atmospheric
streets and alleys of Spitalfields
& Whitechapel, in the
afternoon the story of banking
in the Square Mile with a
coach tour and a visit to the
Bank of England Museum.
If your group has already been
to the museum we’ll take you
to the new Modern London
Galleries at the Museum of
London instead.
This trip is available Monday
to Fridays only all year.
Adults & Seniors: £19.95
Coach Mileage: 5
and today is the Brick
Lane mosque. Our walk
returns us to the pub for
lunch included in the tour
fee. Choose from two or
three pies, fish and chips,
or a sandwich with soup
or chips. Your members
choose their lunch over
morning coffee and it’ll
be ready on their return.
By coach then for a short
but sweet history of
banking. By Elizabethan
times the usury laws had
been repealed and the
We begin at 10.30am in
a pub on Petticoat Lane
for morning refreshments
included in the tour fee
before a walking tour while
the legs are still fresh.
For centuries the City
was a closed shop where
only Livery Company
members could ply their
trades. Foreigners, whether
from Deptford or abroad,
had to settle outside the
walls. In 1685, Huguenots,
fleeing France, brought silk
weaving to Spitalfields just
outside the City walls and
Kill or Cure!
From the barber surgeons
of the old Square Mile to the
body snatchers of St Barts,
from cholera in the rookeries
to the cosmetic surgeons
in Harley Street this tour
offers a very entertaining
day exploring the history of
medicine in London from
Roman times to the present
day. Designed to keep you
warm and entertained
whatever the weather, Kill or
Cure! is a Together Tour with
your group sitting together
for morning refreshments and
lunch included in the tour fee.
Available Tuesdays to Fridays
all year.
Adults & Seniors: £19.95
Coach Mileage: 18
Please meet our
tour guide at
10.30am in central
London for morning
refreshments.
During the morning
we will take you on
a whirlwind tour of
2000 years of the
history of medicine
and nursing. What
a great subject for
a guided tour. It’s a
really enjoyable
in London. Sir
Henry Wellcome
was a fascinating
chap, as rich as
Croesus and as
curious as the
proverbial cat.
Born to a travelling
American preacher
in a frontier log
cabin the teenage
Henry’s first
invention was
invisible ink.
romp through a rich and satisfying subject
with creepy tales of body snatchers and
barber surgeons, heroic tales of scientific
endeavour and inspiring tales of personal
sacrifice. This is a coach based tour which
makes the day ideal for groups that include
poor walkers.
We return to the pub for lunch that, like
morning coffee, is included in the tour fee.
Your members sit together to enjoy the set
menu – availabilities vary so we’ll let you
know what the meal is when you book.
Individuals can buy bar drinks or hot drinks
and desserts on the day to suit themselves.
Our afternoon is devoted to one of the most
attractive and least known private collections
He went on to invent the medicinal tablet
and establish the pharmaceutical giant
Burroughs Wellcome. Lucky in business
but unlucky in love Wellcome married the
daughter of Dr Barnardo whose adulterous
lovers included shop keeper Harry Selfridge
and writer Somerset Maugham.
Like a giant Edwardian cabinet of curiosities
the Medicine Man gallery provides a
permanent home for some of the most
mind-boggling objects that Wellcome, a
contemporary of Livingstone and Stanley,
gathered from around the world. There is
a marvellous and eclectic bookshop plus a
really beautiful café where you can buy tea
before heading for home at 4.45pm.
City & Village Tours: 0845 812 5000