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