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