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