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