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