Stephen gave my extended family visiting London from abroad an excellent tailored tour of the area around Buckingham Palace and St James's taking in changing of the guard and providing loads of interesting facts and stories as we went. Stephen was very friendly and accommodating. Would definitely recommend!

Stephen was highly knowledgeable, friendly and engaging. I learnt a huge amount of rich history about the area and would highly recommend

Stephen is a great storyteller and made the tour exciting and interesting even in the cold weather! If you are looking to understand more about the history and the different symbols around Borough, you should definitely do this tour.

Went on a fabulous tour of the Borough area with Stephen, in a group of colleagues. Really interesting, great pace, lots of information but not an overload, and tailored to our particular interests!

Scientists & Monsters (Inside Out Programme) I attended eleven free walking tours in August 2023 organised by the City of Westminster Guide Lecturers Association. Stephen was excellent, joint 1st!. Guiding at this level cannot be taught - some rare souls just have it. One of the few guides I would actually spend money on.

Excellent private tour showcasing hidden gems around Borough High Street and Borough Market! Really amazing insights into the history and development of the area south of London Bridge and the vital role it played. Steve knows every nook and cranny there like the back of his hand- and the best pubs as well! Thanks so much for a great tour!

Stephen did a private tour for a group of fellow Westminster guides in a historic week for our nation and capital city. He gave fascinating insights into Southwark and why this area has so much history. He showed us things we'd never have seen with plenty of humorous anecdotes. I'd really recommend his walking tours!

Really great walking tour of Borough market area yesterday. Stephen has lots of local knowledge which makes the tour both very interesting but also fun.

Steve's tour for my WI group, the Borough Belles, was a fantastic 90 minutes exploring the Heroines of Borough tying in with our women's group focus. I couldn't recommend him more! Well researched with extra historical pictures provided we didn't really need to walk that far to experience a huge amount of heroine action in the area local to London Bridge south of Borough Market. Steve's presentation was clear and engaging and the pace was leisurely and comfortable. Steve is clearly passionate about local history and his tour conveyed this rather than a tick box whistle stop of key sites. I learnt a lot about some inspiring women and I'd be keen to do another of Steve's tours. Great for people who think they know an area really well as well as a visitor.

Stephen is an excellent - and funny - guide and knows so much about London's history and the history of Southwark in particular. I really enjoyed the stories he told but most of all I enjoyed being able to see, in my mind's eye, what Borough must have looked like hundreds of years ago because he painted such a vivid picture of it.

"WHAT THE DICKENS???" I exclaimed loudly when I heard within thirty seconds of the tour beginning that my humble local post office, the hitherto bane of my life due to an unfortunate incident with a recorded delivery to Belfast, had considerably more esteemed history that I shan't reveal to keep a cloud of mystique. An excellent tour from an excellent guide around a neglected bit of London's literary history. Macabre and mirthful in equal measures, I thoroughly recommend this enlightening and fascinating glimpse into some of the inspirations of the English canon. Stephen was an excellent cicerone throughout; encyclopaedic and entertaining to the last.

Excellent tour down streets less traveled around London Bridge. Very interesting literary facts and description of how the area used to operate. Fantastic talk on multiple literary icons all concentrated

Insightful tour of various hidden literary gems in the Borough area. Takes in Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens in the space of just a few neighbouring streets - well worth going along for anyone with an interest in the history of London or English literature. You'll discover some great historic pubs along the way as well.