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.

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

An impressive Victorian neo-Classical building overlooking the Embankment of the river Thames. It is the second-largest clubhouse ever built, the first London building to incorporate a lift and to be entirely lit by electric lighting.

Alfred Waterhouse, 1886

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.

Feilden Fowles is situated within a walled garden on a discreet corner of Waterloo City Farm. Feilden Fowles designed the farm and its office and educational spaces, which is run by two charities: Jamie’s Farm and the Oasis Community Hub.

Feilden Fowles, 2016

PLEASE NOTE: START TIME CHANGED TO 12 NOON. A diverse walking tour, with a qualified guide, in the heart of Westminster where we visit some statues and places that have a significance to tyranny, colonialism and slavery. The walk is accessible to all and ends in Trafalgar Square.

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

In the heart of London, just steps from famed Trafalgar Square, is Benjamin Franklin House, the world's only remaining Franklin home. For nearly sixteen years between 1757 and 1775, Dr Benjamin Franklin – scientist, diplomat, philosopher, inventor, Founding Father of the United States and more – lived behind its doors. Built circa 1730, we are a Grade I listed house in central London.

Baron William Craven the Younger, 1732

HQ of professional and examining body for UK optometrists occupying two terraced houses, No. 41 (Flitcroft c1730 with later additions) and No. 42 (rebuilt by Tarmac plc, c1989) including Council chamber, print room, library and museum.

Henry Flitcroft, 1730

Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) was one of England’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Abstracted yet allusive, apparently spontaneous but in fact highly controlled, his paintings convey feeling through gesture and colour. His former studio, converted from a nineteenth-century dairy, sits in the heart of Bloomsbury.

A very good example of Georgian/Adam architecture. Restoration 2012 of Great Room (James Barry paintings), Benjamin Franklin room. 2019, restoration and installation of 1754-2018 mural in the Long Gallery.

Adam Brothers, 1774