On July 1st we asked guides across the country to post photographs of their day on Twitter and on Facebook, to show the world the extraordinary range of tours, trips, places and sights that Blue and Green Badge Tourist Guides are involved with.
Some of those pictures are in the album below – there are wildlife tours in the Farne Islands and in Jersey, country walks in Devon and Cumbria, tours inside Manchester Town Hall, the FitzWilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Tower of London.
You might have been with one of our guides in Bath, or Bristol, Tamworth, London, Newcastle, York, Edinburgh or one of several dozen UK towns and cities. Your day could have involved a trip to Windsor Castle, or Stonehenge, Hampton Court Palace, the ruins of a Yorkshire abbey, Blenheim Palace, an Oxford college, or one of several pubs. And it might have been by foot, coach, car, bicycle or even by boat.
Wherever you’re hoping to go across the UK, a registered Tourist Guide will make your visit more informative, entertaining and enjoyable. Visit our tours page to see some of the great places our guides can help you with, or choose a guide from our list of registered professionals.
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- Mary Badger in Stratford upon Avon
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- Suzanne Hindle in Manchester
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- Imogen Rumbold at Albert Dock, Liverpool
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- Stow on the Wold
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- Imogen Rumbold
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- Rosemary Barnes in Yorkshire
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- Harriet Powell hard at work on her next trip
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- A walking tour of Exeter
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- A coach party in Bath
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- Sarah Cowling on the Mall in London
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- Julie Kershaw’s Peaky Blinders tour
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- Catherine Sharp at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge
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- Angela Brown researches her next tour
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- Amanda Hutchinson on Westminster Bridge
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- Sulis Guides at Exmouth
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- Guests get to sit in the thrones at Hampton Court Palace
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- Tamworth’s town guides
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- St George’s Chapel, Windsor
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- Diane Burstein’s Parliament Tour
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- Stephen Sutcliffe at Grassington
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- Richard Bartelot with guests at the Roman Baths
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- Andy Clark in front of Bath Abbey
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- Hugh Dickson at Jervaulx Abbey in Yorkshire
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- Jacqueline Heywood in Borough Market
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- Menai Dillon in Liverpool
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- An American visitor in Harrogate
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- Maureen Corcoran in Greenwich
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- Cindy Chant in Sherborne, Dorset
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- Robert Collin and his Bristol Walking Tour
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- Danny Parlour at the Lego Experience in London
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- A processions at St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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- Suzanne O’Farrell at Hampton Court Palace
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- Mike Rowland’s guests in Bath
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- Maria Illes on the Portobello Road
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- Lavender fields in Kent
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- Buying souvenirs in Oxford
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- Neil in Liverpool
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- Natasha Rao at the Globe in London
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- Outside Paul McCartney’s childhood home
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- Celia Campbell at Stonehenge
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- Laura Rhodes en route to the Farne Islands
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- Jersey Uncoverd
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- Imogen Rumbold at the Tower Execution Site
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- Russell Nash’s group take cover in a WW2 Anderson Shelter
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- Felicity Whittle with her group in Nottingham
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- Henrietta Ferguson with a Yeoman Warder at the Tower
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- Elaine at the start of the Beatles’ Tour
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- Emma Matthew’s visitor meets a beefeater at the Tower
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- Leo Heaton at the London Eye
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- Sarah Ciacci at Hampton Court Palace
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- Laura Adams having a pub lunch with her guest in London
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- Tanya Firth at Hythe in Kent
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- Anne Pollak at Neal’s Yard Dairy
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- Rachel Pearson’s group has lunch in Oxford
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- Mark King at Tower Bridge
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- Diana Callaghan in Windsor
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- Mike Armitage, Leadenhall Market (Diagon Alley), London
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- Peter West at Stonehenge
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- Steve Bourne in Manchester Town Hall
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- Pete Webb on the beach in Jersey
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- John Woolman at the Tower of London
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- Viv Robinson on Dartmoor
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