Join our guide Lottie, as Victorian music-hall singer and Islington resident Nelly Power, on this free 90-minute ‘theatrical’ walk. Listen to Nelly’s story, and perhaps a song or two, while visiting the locations of the borough’s well-known music halls. Hear how these venues were once made famous by performers including Vesta Tilley, Gracie Fields, Marie Lloyd and, of course, Nelly herself!

The tour finishes at Islington Museum so that you can enjoy the current exhibition Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! Music Hall in Islington. The museum is staying open late specially on the evening of 20th August.

This walk has been generously funded by Islington Heritage Service. The walk is free but booking is essential.

Join our guide Lottie, as Victorian music-hall singer and Islington resident Nelly Power, on this free 90-minute ‘theatrical’ walk. Listen to Nelly’s story, and perhaps a song or two, while visiting the locations of the borough’s well-known music halls. Hear how these venues were once made famous by performers including Vesta Tilley, Gracie Fields, Marie Lloyd and, of course, Nelly herself!

The tour finishes at Islington Museum so that you can enjoy the current exhibition Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! Music Hall in Islington. The museum is staying open late specially on the evening of 20th August.

This walk has been generously funded by Islington Heritage Service. The walk is free but booking is essential.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

 

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Join our guide Lottie, as Victorian music-hall singer and Islington resident Nelly Power, on this free 90-minute ‘theatrical’ walk. Listen to Nelly’s story, and perhaps a song or two, while visiting the locations of the borough’s well-known music halls. Hear how these venues were once made famous by performers including Vesta Tilley, Gracie Fields, Marie Lloyd and, of course, Nelly herself!

The tour finishes at Islington Museum so that you can enjoy the current exhibition Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! Music Hall in Islington. The museum is staying open late specially on the evening of 20th August.

This walk has been generously funded by Islington Heritage Service. The walk is free but booking is essential.

Join our guide Lottie, as Victorian music-hall singer and Islington resident Nelly Power, on this free 90-minute ‘theatrical’ walk. Listen to Nelly’s story, and perhaps a song or two, while visiting the locations of the borough’s well-known music halls. Hear how these venues were once made famous by performers including Vesta Tilley, Gracie Fields, Marie Lloyd and, of course, Nelly herself!

The tour finishes at Islington Museum so that you can enjoy the current exhibition Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay! Music Hall in Islington. The museum is staying open late specially on the evening of 20th August.

This walk has been generously funded by Islington Heritage Service. The walk is free but booking is essential.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

Described as a ‘Gothic tornado’ on Upper Street,  Union Chapel is an architectural gem and originally one of the largest nonconformist churches in London. It houses  a unique Willis Organ, with unusual water powered bellows,  an octagonal interior and stunning stained glass windows.

Now an award winning music venue, a homelessness project as well as being a working church, the Chapel still towers over Upper Street. Take a tour and learn more from one of our guides about Islington’s nonconformist heritage, the Chapel’s triumphant survival after a wartime bomb, and the fascinating story of its near demolition and in the 1980s, at a time when Victorian architecture was only just being appreciated.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

Are you interested in the history of Islington? Would you like to become a tour guide? Did you know that our next guide training course starts January 2020 at the University of Westminster?

If you’d like to find out more about the course and one of the areas we cover, a group of Clerkenwell & Islington Guides’ Association guides are holding a free ‘meet the guides’ event where they’ll take you on a walk to show you their favourite parts of Clerkenwell followed by a chance to socialise and ask questions in the pub.

We meet outside Farringdon Station at 6:30pm for a walk of approximately one hour.

The event is free but please book a place so we know who to expect.

To find out more about the course click here.

Members of Clerkenwell & Islington Guides Association are the Mayor of Islington’s official tour guides.                      Clerkenwell & Islington Guides’ Association operates under the name Islington Guided Walks

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.

We’ll travel through a thousand years of history on our tour, visiting Islington’s green spaces, churches, historic buildings, and a river that isn’t a river. Along the way we’ll be meeting kings, artists, writers, painters, musicians, a real life Rapunzel, and even an Egyptian mummy! You’ll hear how the area of Islington was transformed from monastic lands, to dairy farms (mind the cows!), to the sprawl of nineteenth century London. The tour begins outside Highbury & Islington Station, ends on Islington Green, and will take around two hours. Total distance is around two miles.