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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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Villages North of the Thames |
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Wednesdays 3, 10, 24 February and 3 March 2010
Rachel is pleased to be guiding her first course for the Bishopsgate Institute. The course covers four 'villages' north of the Thames providing an opportunity to discover the back streets and peaceful corners of well known areas. Explore Marylebone, Bayswater, St James's and Westminster. You will 'meet' such pesonalities as Lawrence of Arabia, Beau Brummell, Sherlock Holmes and Spike Milligan.
2.00pm / £34 for the series of four sessions (£26.00 conc). Booking via the Bishopsgate Institute |
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Behind The Termini |
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Sundays 9, 16 and 23 May and 6 June 2010
Rachel is pleased to return to the Bishopsgate Institute.
London's railway termini were the Victorians' gateway to Britain and the Continent providing travel with excitement and glamour. The luxury hotels and grand facades were the public face but behind there was a hinterland of trainsheds and industrial landscape. This series of four walking tours takes you on a journey from the commuter world of Paddington, King's Cross St Pancras, Victoria and Waterloo to discover their history and recent redevelopment.
2.00pm / £34 for the series of four sessions (£26.00 conc). Booking via the Bishopsgate Institute |
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WOMEN'S LIBRARY |
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Wonderful Women of Whitechapel |
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Saturday 13 March 2010, 11.00am
This is a revival of one of The Women’s Library’s most popular walks, visiting sites associated with women who have defined Whitechapel and Spitalfields. We will introduce to you the stories of such significant figures as Eva Luckes and Edith Cavell at the London Hospital; radical campaigner Annie Besant; and philanthropists Mary Hughes and Miriam Moses. The walk also explores locations related to influential characters in the contemporary cultural scene such as artist Tracey Emin and author Monica Ali.
£10.00. Book via Women's Library / 020 7320 2222 |
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Battling Belles of Bow |
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Saturday 5 June 2010, 11.00am
This tour for International Women's Day will centre on Bow and 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
£10.00. Book via Women's Library / 020 7320 2222 |
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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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Jewish Theatreland |
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Tuesday 16th February 2010, 11.00am
Take a tour of London's Theatreland exploring the connections with Jewish actors, impresarios, writers and producers. The cast includes Lionel Bart, Lord Delfont, Barbara Streisand, 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.
Further details and booking via JCC |
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Old Jewish East End |
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Thursday 11th March 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. Leisure too with Yiddish theatre and the 'Vapour Baths'. Our walking tour ends with 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.
Further details and booking via JCC |
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MUSEUM OF LONDON |
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Stories Behind the Stores |
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Sunday 20th February 2010, 11.00am
Napoleon called the British 'a nation of shopkeepers'. Today we are also a nation of shoppers and our tour, in and around London's premier shopping street, discovers how shopping has developed in London and how small shops from centuries ago such as Debenhams, John Lewis and Marks & Spencer have become household names across the world. The tour includes the first store in London to allow browsing, an 'olde English sweet shoppe' and how to tell if the Royal Family shops at your favourite store.
£8.00.Booking via Museum of London
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Old Jewish East End |
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Friday 5th March 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. Leisure too with Yiddish theatre and the 'Vapour Baths', not forgetting the markets of Spitalfields itself and Petticoat Lane and the stories of other immigrant communities such as the Huguenots and Bengalis who also made this area their home.
£8.00.Booking via Museum of London |
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Upstairs, Downstairs |
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Saturday 13th March 2010, 2.30pm
Belgravia is one of the most exclusive areas of London, but at the end of the 19th century it was also home to an army of domestic servants, most of them women and girls. The basement stairs and attic windows of the grand houses are a reminder of when those in service ‘lived at the top but worked at the bottom’. Join this tour that gives centre stage to the work and lives of cooks, maids and ‘tweenies’.
£8.00.Booking via Museum of London |
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London on Film |
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Sunday 18th April 2010, 2.30pm
On this walk we follow in the footsteps of Jude Law, Hugh Grant, Ralph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Renee Zelwegger and other stars of the big screen to discover some of London's film locations.London is providing a backdrop for an increasing number of films and on this tour we visit sites where movies such as "Closer", "Four Weddings and a Funeral" " Bridget Jones' Diary" and "Shakespeare in Love" have been made.
£8.00.Booking via Museum of London |
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COMING UP - dates for your diary |
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A Walk of Jewish Firsts - Sunday 18th April
Whitechapel at War - Saturday 8th May
Women of Worth - Sunday 16th May
Saris, Spice and Splendour - Sunday 30th May
Jewish Theatreland - Sunday 13th June
Whitechapel at War - Thursday 24th June
Jewish Whitechapel - Sunday 4th July
Spitalfields: The Story - Tuesday 6th July
The Freuds in Hampstead - Sunday 11th July |
