NEW! Glorious & Grimy Grays Inn Road - tour with Blue Badge guide Laurence

Meet under clock on concourse outside KINGS CROSS station (not St Pancras) @ 11-11.15

Fee £12

Did you hear the one about the gold dealer who was richer than our ex-Queen? Or the TV presenter who, in trying to take down a rock band, catapulted them to fame(notoriety) overnight?

And what do you think of this photo above, showing the top of a magnificent building on Grays Inn Road ? - constructed grandly in 1909 in the French Baroque style with beautiful carvings and a monumental sculpture of Mercury on the top ....... it's now a Travelodge


you just love it?

To most people Grays Inn Road is just a way of getting from Chancery Lane to Kings Cross - or visa versa - but to me it's a plethora of fascinating and quirky history.

'So tell us!' I hear you demand..... well for the full story you'll have to join the walk but here's a taster..................................................................

a pub which has played host to Bob Dylan, Shane McGowan and Charlie Chaplin; a health spa, a dental clinic - not just ANY dental clinic -, a pub (yes another pub!) in which a famous heist was planned, a market with a name the meaning of which has been hotly debated , a church with a dramatic sculpture, a Norman Foster building - he of Gherkin fame - , an Edwardian estate which gave us a barrow-boy turned New Romantic and ........just what is the Welsh connection all about?

Cash on the day or, if you prefer, you can arrange payment into my bank

Host Laurence 07889 298573