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