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