WANT TO REALLY KNOW EAST LONDON? There’s more to Clapton than you would imagine. It’s been an international border and played a key role in the growth of London. It’s still vital to the wellbeing of the city today and is helping keep our capital alive. But this is just words on the web; the…
Author: Simon Cole
Discovering Dalston, Stokey Safari: The Biggest Story Ever?
It’s been a busy summer and that continues this Saturday with three different walks (booking here at Eventbrite). This Saturday we’re discovering Dalston and on safari in Stoke Newington. We’re experimenting with a new look and how best to tie together all the good stuff (art, creativity, socially progressive initiatives, sustainability etc) so what’s the…
Chatsworth Road Festival 2015: Free ‘Connect with Clapton’ Exploratory Walk
It’s been a busy summer, hanging out with Sir Ken Robinson in Davos and plotting the future of education; leading groups around our favourite East London stomping grounds for Hackney Council and showing Americans central London. It continues tomorrow with a FREE chance to explore Clapton on a mini-tour for Chatsworth Road Festival. Come and…
Feminist Stoke Newington – Or Is It? Special IWD 2015 Guided Walk
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2015 WALK Special fundraising edition of the ‘Feminist (Or Is It?) Stoke Newington‘ guided walk (see here for usual walk): Sun 8th March; meet 10.30am main gates of Abney Park cemetery N16; cost £8 with 50% of proceeds to fund for Mary Wollstonecraft statue in Newington Green (see here); just turn up….
Hackney Wick: See It While It Lasts
Thanks to some last minute cancellations, we still have several places on tomorrow’s Hackney Council walk around the wonder that is Hackney Wick. This guided tour – including art, social and industrial history & heritage – will show you why this very special alternative East London location by the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is well…
Wall Down Tourists Out: Bringing Down Barriers With Travel
Berliners will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall on 9th November. But some resent the influx of tourists that the new openness brings. This was discussed by the travel trade this week in London. But surely breaking down barriers is what international travel should be about? 9th November is the 25th…
#TenPerCentTours – Tours Giving Back And Doing Good
#TenPerCentTours Tour guiding is an enormously rewarding job. In nearly a decade I’ve all sorts of interesting people and share with them the things that I’m passionate about. They often return the favour too! But it’s important to me that my job is something that I can feel is contributing to the greater good…
Typical: nothing for months then three events come at once…
Radio silence is broken. Apologies for the silence. Or apologies for breaking it, depending on your point of view…?Hackney Tours has news of three great events coming up for you in the next few weeks, so please read on. Thanks for reading and hope to see you soon! You can also stay up to date…
2014 Europe Run To Unity: Appeal for Runners for WW1 Memorial Relay
Be part of a team in a once-in-a-lifetime experience running Europe, like here on the former Iron Curtain in 2009. There were once so many Germans in Hackney that there was a German Hospital in Dalston; a little bit of digging in the local archives soon brings up mentions of the Germanic presence in places…
Places Left on Free Clapton Tour This Sun for Hackney Council
There are still some places left on Sunday’s walk around the waterways of Clapton, run by Hackney Tours for/with Hackney Council (scroll down, see below details).If you don’t know the area, it’s a beautiful spot with wide open spaces and all sorts of rare creatures and plants are waiting to be discovered there. If you…
October Walks & Runs with Hackney Tours
Autumn is upon us, judging by those clouds outside. All the more reason to get out and enjoy the changing of the seasons as the leaves turn brown and thoughts turn to Halloween, Bonfire Night and our other rituals marking the passing of time. As mounting research shows, it’s good to be amongst nature; you’ve…
Hackney Green Party Walk Sun 1st, Open to All!
Hackney Wicked and our walks there may have ended, but with Hackney Green Party we have organised a great walk from Hackney Wick to Clapton and everybody’s welcome! The walk will cover not just Green Hackney projects like tree nurseries, urban gardens, sustainability initiatives and community activism/planning but also street art and social history in…
Hackney Tours: East LDN Creative Exploration 