Introduction:

Having been a guide for most of my working life, I can offer an extensive repertoire of tours, from Kensington to Piccadilly or Bloomsbury, or Clerkenwell & Islington, for which I have a special qualification. I am a registered City guide and member of the City of London Guide Lecturers Association. Walk with me through the narrow medieval streets of the City, where historic churches and livery company halls nestle below the tall glass towers of multinational companies.

Living in East London, I enjoy this rapidly-changing area - the City, East End, Docklands, Wapping, Limehouse, Shadwell, Bow, Mile End, Stepney Green, Shoreditch, Hoxton, Hackney, Bethnal Green and Greenwich.

"We want to thank you sincerely for probably the best parts of our best trip ever. Your well prepared tour to Wapping was especially wonderful". Marshall Pace, the Pace Society of America, September 2016.

In the area around Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, swans swim on waters once contaminated with industrial waste from industries such as gunpowder, rockets, chemicals (plastic was made here for the first time), soap and food for London's rapidly increasing population .

Favourite themes: urban regeneration, contemporary architecture, parks and gardens. I offer tours by coach, public transport, on foot or bicycle. I like adult groups of any nationality, or French and German schoolchildren, who are particularly fond of Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens and Jack the Ripper stories.

I have a Palace of Westminster (Parliament) qualification.

I also like to take longer tours as a tour manager, especially of gardens. There is a huge variety of gardens in Britain and the Continent of Europe. For many years, I escorted tours in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux, sometimes to the Czech Republic or even as far as Russia, Poland, Mongolia, India and China.