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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- Angela Brown researches her next tour
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- Imogen Rumbold at the Tower Execution Site
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- Henrietta Ferguson with a Yeoman Warder at the Tower
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- Harriet Powell hard at work on her next trip
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- Stow on the Wold
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- Mark King at Tower Bridge
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- Menai Dillon in Liverpool
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- Sarah Ciacci at Hampton Court Palace
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- Buying souvenirs in Oxford
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- Russell Nash’s group take cover in a WW2 Anderson Shelter
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- Peter West at Stonehenge
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- Anne Pollak at Neal’s Yard Dairy
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- Guests get to sit in the thrones at Hampton Court Palace
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- Jacqueline Heywood in Borough Market
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- Danny Parlour at the Lego Experience in London
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- Sarah Cowling on the Mall in London
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- Hugh Dickson at Jervaulx Abbey in Yorkshire
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- John Woolman at the Tower of London
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- Maureen Corcoran in Greenwich
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- Diana Callaghan in Windsor
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- Mike Armitage, Leadenhall Market (Diagon Alley), London
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- Mary Badger in Stratford upon Avon
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- A coach party in Bath
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- Maria Illes on the Portobello Road
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- Rosemary Barnes in Yorkshire
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- Laura Rhodes en route to the Farne Islands
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- Imogen Rumbold
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- Julie Kershaw’s Peaky Blinders tour
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- Robert Collin and his Bristol Walking Tour
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- Suzanne Hindle in Manchester
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- Felicity Whittle with her group in Nottingham
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- A walking tour of Exeter
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- Jersey Uncoverd
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- Elaine at the start of the Beatles’ Tour
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- Viv Robinson on Dartmoor
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- An American visitor in Harrogate
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- Neil in Liverpool
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- Suzanne O’Farrell at Hampton Court Palace
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- Catherine Sharp at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge
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- Tanya Firth at Hythe in Kent
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- Stephen Sutcliffe at Grassington
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- Diane Burstein’s Parliament Tour
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- Tamworth’s town guides
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- Outside Paul McCartney’s childhood home
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- A processions at St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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- Celia Campbell at Stonehenge
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- Mike Rowland’s guests in Bath
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- Laura Adams having a pub lunch with her guest in London
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- Rachel Pearson’s group has lunch in Oxford
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- Emma Matthew’s visitor meets a beefeater at the Tower
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- Steve Bourne in Manchester Town Hall
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- Lavender fields in Kent
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- Leo Heaton at the London Eye
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- Cindy Chant in Sherborne, Dorset
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- Amanda Hutchinson on Westminster Bridge
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- Richard Bartelot with guests at the Roman Baths
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- St George’s Chapel, Windsor
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- Andy Clark in front of Bath Abbey
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- Sulis Guides at Exmouth
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- Imogen Rumbold at Albert Dock, Liverpool
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- Pete Webb on the beach in Jersey
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- Natasha Rao at the Globe in London
A Magic Carpet Ride
The Serendipity of Spying
The Majesty and Mishaps of Royal Coronations
A Walk on the Bright Side
Happy Birthday Hadrian!