This tour looks at how healthcare has had an impact on the buildings and landscapes between Westminster Abbey and the City. Exploring Healthcare related buildings, rebuilt, repurposed or removed and their influence on the landscape.

Multiple architects, 1100

UNESCO World Heritage site dating from 11C including stunning examples of Gothic and Medieval architecture and many hidden treasures.

Unknown, 1060

This two-hour walk covers a number of leading personalities who led the fight back against the Axis Powers, explores preparations for some of the most decisive battles, considers how London became the centre of the free world while not losing sight of how people got on with their lives. This is realised by visiting the locations they worked from or the memorials raised to them.

10 Downing Street has been the residence of British Prime Ministers since 1735. Behind its famous black door the most important decisions affecting Britain for the last 284 years have been taken.

William Kent, 1735

Modern red brick building purpose-built to house the City of Westminster's historic records. Opportunity to visit the conservation studio and see treasures of the archives.

Tim Drewitt, 1995

Whatever happened to the historic River Tyburn? Victor Keegan, author of Vic Keegan’s Lost London (1) and Vic Keegan’s Lost London (2) will chart the history of this extraordinary river which still springs from the Hampstead Hills but leaves experts arguing over if and where it reaches the Thames.

Completed in 1929, 55 Broadway is an art-deco, Grade I listed 'cathedral to modernity' and London’s ‘first skyscraper’ - formerly, the Headquarters of Transport for London.

Charles Holden, 1927

Setting off from the Festival of Britain site we cover icons of the South Bank before heading into the back streets to see different types of social housing. We travel over to Bankside to see an overview of the historic and contemporary.

Unknown, 19

A rare example of Thomas Archer's work and a masterpiece of English Baroque, originally dubbed Queen Anne's Footstool. A Grade I listed building, restored by Marshall Sisson after extensive bombing damage, now a busy concert hall.

Thomas Archer, 1714

Our mission is to share the story of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing and the lady with the lamp. Our small but mighty exhibit allows for people to learn and engage with one of the most recognizable national heroes of the Victorian Era. There is fun for all ages with interactive family trails and guided highlights tours throughout the day.

Petty France is a short street with a long history. This walk will time travel from the medieval origins of Petty France through its sensational history to its present distinguished profile. We shall study Charles Holden's 1927 Grade 1 listed London Underground HQ, upstaged in 1976 by Sir Basil Spence's 1976 brutalist monument to modernism, and where the original Queen Anne house was born.