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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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THE WOMEN'S LIBRARY |
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New! Pearly Queens to Kingsley Hall
A visit to Bromley by Bow |
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Sunday 8th June 2008, 10.30am
For those of you prepared to go a bit off the beaten track this under-visited area of Bromley-by-Bow offers a wonderful variety of history and stories - suffragettes, almshouses and royal hunting lodges. We end the walk with a visit and tour of Kingsley Hall hearing of its associations with Doris and Muriel Lester and Mahatma Ghandi, who lodged here during his visit to London in 1931.
Details of how to book your tickets in advance are via the The Women's Library / 020 7320 2222.
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JEWISH MUSEUM |
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Jewish Theatreland |
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Sunday 6th April 2008, 10.30am
Following from its successful debut in September, we are reprising this tour in association with the Jewish Museum. Explore the Jewish connections in London's Theatreland with Jewish actors, impresarios, writers and producers.
The cast includes Lionel Bart, Lord Delfont, Barbara Streisand, Jonathan Miller, Arnold Wesker and many more. Credits are also due to Lyons for refreshments, Moss Bros for the costumes and Freed for the dance shoes. The tour lasts for around two hours with no interval, ending near Covent Garden.
Details of how to book are available via Jewish Museum
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The Jewish West End |
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Sunday 1st June 2008, 10.30am
Discover the Jewish connections of London’s West End. Explore the streets where the Jewish community worked as tailors, dress makers and milliners and see the sites of Jewish schools, youth clubs, Jewish-run pubs and a synagogue that became a theatre. £10.00 Details of how to book are available via 020 8371 7373 / http://www.jewishmuseum.org.uk/ |
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OTHER PUBLIC TOURS |
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New! At Home with the Rothschilds |
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Wednesday 28th May 2008
For Friends of the Jewish Museum there is an 'armchair tour' of the London and country residences of the Rothschild family at the New London Synagogue, Abbey Road, London NW8 0AT |
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East End Radicals |
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Saturday 17th May 2008, 10.30am
** in association with Spitalfields Festival **
The East End still evokes memories of radicals and revolutionaries; men and women who worked ceaselessly to improve conditions for the predominately Jewish community from the late 19th century to the inter-war years. Hear the stories of the Sidney Street Siege, the German gentile who learnt Yiddish and became the champion of the Jewish anarchists and the doss-house that was a temporary home to Stalin and Jack London. £6.00 (£5.00 concessions). Book via 020 7377 1362 / www.spitalfieldsfestival.or.uk |
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Limehouse |
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Saturday 7th June 2008, 2.30pm
** in association with Spitalfields Festival **
Limehouse, London’s original Chinatown is now the Belgravia of the Docklands but evidence of its seafaring past remains with warehouses and ropewalk. Literary associations abound too, with Fu Man Chu and Narrow Street where Dickens set scenes for Our Mutual Friend. The tour finishes with a riverside walk to the old sugar warehouses, now housing Museum in Docklands where it will end in time for a performance at noon by the Grand Union Youth Orchestra of East London. £6.00 (£5.00 concessions). Book via 020 7377 1362 / www.spitalfieldsfestival.or.uk |
