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