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