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