Welcome! I’m Tim and this is your gateway to London.
From iconic landmarks to fascinating locals, I love sharing the extraordinary stories of this 2,000-year-old city.
Alongside my weekly films on instagram each month I curate a series of walks around the city. From royal palaces and treasures, to tales of radicals and rebels. Uncovering the rascals and the saints, each walk reveals the everyday lives of Londoners through the ages. A glimpse into the city’s rich and diverse history.
Whether you’re a first-time visitor or a living breathing Londoner, join me and discover some fabulous things in this amazing city.
Tim’s style was both informative and entertaining – easily one of the best tours I attended!
Great tour today. Really enjoyed it – loved the storytelling & linking to characters.
I liked the way Tim developed the theme of the walk, rather than just treating it as a collection of separate episodes.
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A hidden cloister garden beside St Paul’s Cathedral holds Roman pavement, a sculpture by Jacob Epstein and a 3,000-year-old brick from the time of Babylon brought to London by Agatha Christie’s archaeologist husband. It’s also a place where it all started for me.
Tucked away in a small Georgian Square, between Lambeth and Kennington, is the childhood home of Charlie Chaplin, one of the most famous figures in film history. It’s little known and not often visited. Behind the doors of Number 39 West Square, a young Charlie Chaplin spent his earliest, happiest years…
From grocer, coffee house to the oldest wine merchant in Britain, Berry Bros. & Rudd, is a glorious business which owes its success to smart adaptability, grand timing, and an address of extraordinary good fortune.
Buried in the peaceful churchyard of St John’s, Hampstead, among weathered stones, clinging ivy and the soft birdsong of early spring, lies a man who helped humanity find its place on Earth. He was not a king, nor a general, or a soldier, but a simple carpenter’s son.
London is a city that refuses to sit still. It has forever been a busy bustling place, a great restless organism, never ceasing its endless invention. None more so than the Street Art in Shoreditch and London’s East End.
Smithfield has been used for many things; from fabulous jousts in the Middle Ages and riotous fairs, to bloody executions and the oldest meat market in Europe. Smithfield has a rich and fascinating history….
You gotta love someone who calls a serving monarch a ‘fat bastard’. So hats off, no doubt a silky-velvet number, to the rather grand character that is Beau Brummell. Although absolutely fabulous, there is something sad in his story…
Mary Seacole was a Crimean War nurse, healer, and entrepreneur who built her own hospital after being rejected by the British authorities. In this London story, we explore the life of Mary Seacole and visit her statue opposite the Houses of Parliament.
This is a story of an old fruit and vegetable shop, Verde & Company, Spitalfields Market. It’s had an up and down history. One of those classic tales of David and Goliath. Its present situation, from local East End greengrocer to a boutique vendor for an international chocolate chain reflects much about these times.
‘this great and monstrous Thing, London’
Daniel Defoe
The London Walker 