7 July – share your pictures with us
Last year we asked Guides to share photos of the tour they were giving on 1 July using the hashtag #britainsbestguides. We had an amazing response and you can see from our gallery of pictures that we were giving tours literally all over the country showing visitors from all over the world the best of the UK.
This Saturday – 7 July – we are doing it again. If you are a guide or on a guided tour with a Blue Badge Guide please share your pictures from across the UK on facebook and twitter using the hashtag #britainsbestguides We want to see your walking tours, coach tours, car, boat or bike tours.
Our Blue Badge Guides work all around the UK – touring the biggest cities and the most famous landmarks, as well as hidden spaces and private places. They love showing what a fascinating and vibrant place contemporary Britain is and they bring the sites to life by telling the stories that are not in the guide books or audio tours.
Just take a look at what we they were up to this time last year. And don’t forget to share your stories on Saturday!
We looking forward to seeing where you are.
I wonder who will be in the most unusual place?
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- Imogen Rumbold at the Tower Execution Site
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- Outside Paul McCartney’s childhood home
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- Mary Badger in Stratford upon Avon
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- Laura Adams having a pub lunch with her guest in London
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- Viv Robinson on Dartmoor
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- A walking tour of Exeter
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- Pete Webb on the beach in Jersey
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- Menai Dillon in Liverpool
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- Stephen Sutcliffe at Grassington
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- Harriet Powell hard at work on her next trip
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- Leo Heaton at the London Eye
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- Imogen Rumbold at Albert Dock, Liverpool
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- Mark King at Tower Bridge
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- Andy Clark in front of Bath Abbey
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- Tanya Firth at Hythe in Kent
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- Elaine at the start of the Beatles’ Tour
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- Russell Nash’s group take cover in a WW2 Anderson Shelter
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- Suzanne Hindle in Manchester
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- Maria Illes on the Portobello Road
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- Lavender fields in Kent
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- A coach party in Bath
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- Imogen Rumbold
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- Diana Callaghan in Windsor
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- Peter West at Stonehenge
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- Danny Parlour at the Lego Experience in London
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- Henrietta Ferguson with a Yeoman Warder at the Tower
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- Stow on the Wold
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- Angela Brown researches her next tour
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- Laura Rhodes en route to the Farne Islands
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- Sulis Guides at Exmouth
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- Amanda Hutchinson on Westminster Bridge
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- Buying souvenirs in Oxford
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- Tamworth’s town guides
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- Emma Matthew’s visitor meets a beefeater at the Tower
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- Mike Armitage, Leadenhall Market (Diagon Alley), London
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- Steve Bourne in Manchester Town Hall
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- John Woolman at the Tower of London
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- Rachel Pearson’s group has lunch in Oxford
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- Diane Burstein’s Parliament Tour
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- Rosemary Barnes in Yorkshire
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- Catherine Sharp at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge
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- Jersey Uncoverd
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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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- Mike Rowland’s guests in Bath
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- Richard Bartelot with guests at the Roman Baths
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- Maureen Corcoran in Greenwich
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- Celia Campbell at Stonehenge
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- Sarah Cowling on the Mall in London
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- An American visitor in Harrogate
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- A processions at St Paul’s Cathedral, London
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- Robert Collin and his Bristol Walking Tour
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- Neil in Liverpool
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- Natasha Rao at the Globe in London
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- Hugh Dickson at Jervaulx Abbey in Yorkshire
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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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- Sarah Ciacci at Hampton Court Palace
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- Cindy Chant in Sherborne, Dorset
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- St George’s Chapel, Windsor
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- Jacqueline Heywood in Borough Market
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- Julie Kershaw’s Peaky Blinders tour
So follow #BritainsBestGuides this Saturday and experience the whole of Britain from the Guide’s perspective.
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