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We have been busy since our launch in 2005 ... not only preparing tours for our clients but working with organisations in the East End to programme walks and tours for local cultural events and community festivals.
Our tours are custom made for our clients but the Public Tours outlined here are available to individuals and will give you the opportunity to experience a tour by Go East London if you have not already done so.
Whatever your interest we hope there is something here for you. |
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BISHOPSGATE INSTITUTE |
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Spend, Spend, Spend - London's Historic Shops and Markets |
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Sundays 26 September, 3, 10 and 17 October 2010
London's long established markets and shops have been a constant backdrop to its history and development. This Discovering London course profiles key areas where there is not only a wonderful array of goods to peruse but where there is also an opportunity to explore how the shops matched the social demographics of the area. From East London's Sunday street markets to 17th century shops for wine, shoes and boots
in St James's and from the birth of the department stores on Oxford Street to today's upmarket haute couture and mens' tailoring of Mayfair these walks will have something for everybody.
11.00am / Prices to be confirmed. Booking will be via the Bishopsgate Institute |
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WOMEN'S LIBRARY |
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Creative Spitalfields |
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Saturday 26 November 2010, 11.00am
This walking tour traces the development of arts and crafts developed by centuries of women on the fringes of the City. Once the centre of London's silk and sweated tailoring industries women also toiled making brushes and cigarettes by which they earned their living, Today the same streets and buildings are home to vibrant markets, designer makers and cutting edge shopping.
£10.00. Book via Women's Library / 020 7320 2222
Repeat Date: Saturday 11 February 2011, 11.00am |
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HACKNEY MUSEUM |
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Stoke Newington - 'A Misty Village' |
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Saturday 17th July 2010, 11.00am
For centuries this hidden London village was home to dissenters and radical writers such as Daniel Defoe and 'gothic' Edgar Allen Poe. This varied and fascinating tour follows this history, via a 'castle', hidden reservoir and an historic cemetery, through to present day 'Stokie', a vibrant and creative hub of north London.
FREE. Book via Hackney Museum / 020 8356 2509 |
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Mile End to Victoria Park |
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Saturday 21st August 2010, 11.00am
Not one, not two but three parks feature on this walking tour which takes you on the fascinating journey from Mile End, over the canal into Victoria Park, since the mid 19th century host to social activism, rock concerts and boating and leisure pursuits. With its lake, bridges and ornate drinking fountain it is still very much at the heart of the local community.
FREE. Book via Hackney Museum / 020 8356 2509 |
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JEWISH HERITAGE |
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From Mile End to the West End |
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Go East London has launched Go Jewish London, a series of public walking tour profiling London's Jewish heritage from Mile End in the east to Fitzrovia and Soho in the west.
One a month! All on Sundays! All start at 11.00am.
Tickets £10.00 each
An East End Village
10 January, 9 May, 5 September
Old Jewish East End
7 February, 6 June, 3 October
This tour includes a visit to Sandys Row Synagogue.
A Walk Of Jewish Firsts - The City
7 March, 4 July, 7 November
Jewish West End
11 April, 8 August, 5 December
Full details at Jewish Heritage
Booking via info@goeastlondon.co.uk / 020 8883 4169 |
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All Aboard! Routemaster Tour of North West London with Mark Maier |
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Sunday 8th August 2010, 2.00pm
Join our classic Routemaster bus for a unique tour of Camden. Comedian Mark Maier together with Rachel will bring to life the story of Jewish north-west London as we pass by streets, buildings, synagogues and shops.
From Blooms to Bloomsbury, Rachel will enlighten you about the history of local Jewish refugees in the interwar years, many of whom became prominent artists and politicians. Amusing observations will be provided by Mr Maier!
Tour ends at the Jewish Museum
£15 including free museum admission.
Book via Jewish Museum / admin@jewishmuseum.org.uk / 020 7284 7384 |
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Old Jewish East End |
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Sunday 22nd August 2010, 11.00am
The Jewish community may no longer live in Spitalfields but the streets and buildings still evoke memories of the synagogues, schools and soup kitchens. Our walking tour ends with a treat - a visit to the hidden gem of Sandy’s Row Synagogue. Remodeled within an 18th century Huguenot chapel for the early Dutch Jewish community this synagogue, founded in 1854 is one of the oldest in London.
£12.00. Further details and booking via Jewish Museum
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Old Jewish East End |
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Wednesday 25th August 2010, 2.30pm
The Jewish community may no longer live in Spitalfields but the streets and buildings still evoke memories of the synagogues, schools and soup kitchen together with the stories of the other immigrant communities who have made this area their home.
£8.00.Booking via Museum of London / / 020 7001 9844
Repeat Date: Sunday 26th September 2010, 2.30pm |
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Jewish West End |
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Sunday 12th September 2010, 11.00am
As part of European Jewish Heritage Day discover Jewish connections in the heart of London's West End. Learn about the area's rich social history with its youth clubs, schools and synagogues and explore the streets where the West End Jewish community worked as tailors, dressmakers, milliners and market traders. You visit a variety of sites including a Jewish school, which is now a supermarket, a synagogue converted into a theatre and London's most famous literary pub once run by Jewish landlords.
£9.00. Book via info@goeastlondon.co.uk / 020 8883 4169. Meet outside Warren Street tube |
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From Radicals to Rothschilds |
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Sunday 19th September 2010, 11.00am
Our tour takes you from the surprisingly quiet Stepney Green to Whitechapel evoking the memories of Jewish life, learning and labour.
The treat of this tour is that the closed cemeteries of Alderney Road and Brady Street are being opened up specially for you providing an opportunity to see London's oldest Ashkezani cemetery and also the burial place of Nathan Meyer Rothschild, the founder
of the eponymous banking house.
£12.00. Further details and booking via Jewish Museum |
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Old Jewish East End |
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Sunday 26th September 2010, 2.30pm
The Jewish community may no longer live in Spitalfields but the streets and buildings still evoke memories of the synagogues, schools and soup kitchen together with the stories of the other immigrant communities who have made this area their home.
£8.00.Booking via Museum of London / / 020 7001 9844 |
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Women of Worth |
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Sunday 31st October 2010, 11.00am
Our tour profiles Jewish and non-Jewish women alike who made an impact on the Jewish community in London's East End. Sites of Whitechapel and Spitalfields include those associated with Alice Model and her maternity hospital, the birthplace of Hannah Billig (the Angel of Cable Street), Miriam Moses and her youth work, the philanthropy of the Rothschild ladies and the actresses of the Yiddish theatre.
£15.00. Book via the Jewish Community Centre / 020 7431 9866 |
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Your Loyal Subjects ** NEW ** |
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Thursday 25th November 2010, 6.45pm
Join our fascinating new tour of the National Portrait Gallery where you will discover members of the Jewish community who have been chosen to be representative British subjects in the fields of politics, finance, industry and culture. Their stories and those of the artists are also the story of the development of the Jewish community in the UK.
£15.00. Book via the Jewish Community Centre / 020 7431 9866 |
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MUSEUM OF LONDON |
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Battling Belles of Bow |
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Wednesday 11th August 2010, 2.30pm
Follow in the footsteps of Sylvia Pankhurst who chose east London as the starting point for her campaign for women's suffrage and seeing the plight of the working women and mothers also established a creche, restaurant and model toy factory in the area. East End women were key to the success of the Suffragette movement and the route highlights their supporters and their workplaces including the famous Bryant & May Match Factory, site of the Match girls' strike of 1888.
£8.00. Meeting place provided on booking via Museum of London / 020 7001 9844 |
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Old Jewish East End |
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Wednesday 25th August 2010, 2.30pm
The Jewish community may no longer live in Spitalfields but the streets and buildings still evoke memories of the synagogues, schools and soup kitchen together with the stories of the other immigrant communities who have made this area their home.
£8.00.Booking via Museum of London / / 020 7001 9844
Repeat Date: Sunday 26th September 2010, 2.30pm |
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH |
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Saris, Spice and Splendour |
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Saturday 16th October 2010, 10.30am and 2.30pm
Walking between Tooting Bec and Tooting Broadway is a feast for the senses. From 1920s suburban tube stations, an elaborate 19th century pub, Indian saris to the Mayfair cinema now an Islamic Community Centre this tour is full of surprises. It ends with another treat, visitng the magnificent Tooting Granada cinema with its Moorish interior designed by the Russian emigre, Komisarjevsky.
£8.00.Booking via info@goeastlondon.co.uk / 020 8883 4169 |
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OTHER TOURS |
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Freud Museum |
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Sunday 11th July 2010, 10.30am
A fascinating tour exploring the Freud family’s local connections. Sigmund Freud escaped Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938 to 'die in freedom' and his home in Hampstead became a magnet for other European refugees. But he was not the only Freud to leave his mark in NW3. This walking tour profiles Sigmund and his friends, his daughter Anna whose work with children continues to this day in Maresfield Gardens and his son, Ernst, an architect whose modernist houses remain as testament to his talent. The tour ends at the Freud Museum with reduced price admission included for this tour.
£10.00. Meeting place provided on booking via Freud Museum / 020 7435 2002 |
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Camden Town - in and around the Regent's Canal |
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Sunday 24th October 2010, 11.00am
Beyond the bustle of Camden Lock Market you will discover the varied and fascinating history of Camden Town. The Regent's Canal and the railways have left a legacy of an industrial hinterland with ice houses, stables, warehouses and piano factories all now renovated for leisure use. The village like streets are home to writers and artists and also our newly re-opened Jewish Museum where the walk will end with free admission included in the tour.
£12.00. Further details and booking via Jewish Museum |
