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Mary Sewell

Mary Sewell, B.Sc (Econ)

London Tourist Board qualified Blue Badge guide

Member of the
Association of Professional Tourist Guides
Guild of Registered Tourist Guides
Institute of Tourist Guiding
30 years' experience as a British guide and tour manager

The Blue Badge

East Festival Tours

For London's East Festival 2009 I am offering a cycle tour and a walking tour.

In London, I have specialist qualifications for:

  • The Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament)
  • The City of London (Banking/most historic section of London)
  • Clerkenwell & Islington (adjacent to the City and a former home of Tony Blair)
  • Docklands (recently restored and developed)

Palace of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster from across the river.

I live in East London and enjoy guiding in London's Eastside, Docklands and Greenwich. The announcement on July 6 2005 that London will host the 2012 Olympic Games is very exciting for East London. Let me guide you around the site of the Olympic Park.

I can offer the following walking tours:

  • Bethnal Green to Brick Lane - Dollshouses, Town Houses and Bath Houses
  • Bloomsbury
  • City of London
  • Clerkenwell
  • Da Vinci Code
  • Docklands
  • East London Parks and Gardens - Past, Present and Future - Green to Grey to Green
  • Greenwich
  • Hampstead
  • Heart of Hackney
  • Islington
  • Jack-the-Ripper
  • Kensington
  • London Fields to Spitalfields
  • London squares
  • Regent's Park
  • St Pancras new international railway station
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Shoreditch & Hoxton - Clowns and Clubs
  • Soho
  • South Bank & Southwark
  • Spitalfields
  • Stratford East
  • Tower Hill to Wapping
  • Westminster
Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral

For Britain, I have extra qualifications for:

  • Canterbury Cathedral
  • York Minster
  • Wells Cathedral

I enjoy escorting garden tours, have the Royal Horticultural Society's General Certificate in Horticulture and Diploma in Garden History from London University.


30 Years' Experience in Tour Management

Monet's Garden
Monet's garden, Giverny		 Tulip

More than 30 years' experience as a guide in London and the British Isles and as a tour manager in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, some of Eastern Europe and even further afield - Russia, Outer Mongolia, China and India.

I visited many countries whilst working as an Assistant Purser for P & O shipping co., mainly on voyages travelling through the Panama Canal to Australasia and cruises around the South Pacific, but also on Mediterranean and Scandinavian cruises.

Languages spoken fluently: French and German
Conversational Italian and a little Spanish


Mary Sewell

I am unable to send you general tourist information.
For general tourist information I recommend the official Visit Britain web site.