🏨 Money and Power in the City Sightseeing Tour Activity

Money and Power in the City Sightseeing Tour

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 2 hours

Departs: London, London

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

Gossipy Tour exploring the key personalities and organisations that created London's financial district. We first find out about the Roman and Medieval past of the City of London. We then go in search of an organisation that was once bigger and more important than the tech giants of today, the East India Company and investigate why Britain has almost forgotten it ever existed. We also discover the history of the stock market and the medieval trade associations that make the City such a distinctive place today. Expect to hear about dynamism alongside criminality as this informal sociable tour debates issues of power and money across centuries that are still super relevant today.

What's Included

Services of qualified and experienced London guide and History teacher

Traveler Information

YOUTH: Age: 11 - 15
ADULT: Age: 16 - 59
SENIOR: Age: 60 - 100

Additional Info

COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Service animals allowed

COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Service animals allowed

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Tower of London

Here about the Roman and Medieval beginnings of the Financial District

• Admission Ticket Free

Lloyds of London

We see the most important historic location of the East India company having previously seen other sites linked to it.

• Admission Ticket Free

Royal Exchange Building London

See the neo classical splendour of the Royal Exchange, Bank of England and Mansion House

• Admission Ticket Free

See the location of the coffee shop where the stock market was first based.

Exchange Alley or Change Alley is a narrow alleyway connecting shops and coffeehouses in an old neighbourhood of the City of London. It served as a convenient shortcut from the Royal Exchange on Cornhill to the Post Office on Lombard Street and remains as one of a number of alleys linking the two streets.

• Admission Ticket Free

Guildhall

See the medieval Guildhall and selected near by Guild buildings.
Medieval guild halls were used to store goods and as places for celebratory events. When not required for guild members' events, the hall often became place where townspeople could hold entertainments such as Passion plays.

• Admission Ticket Free

Paternoster Square

See the modern Stock market towered over by the glorious St Paul's Cathedral.

St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London. As the seat of the Bishop of London, the cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Grade I listed building.

• Admission Ticket Free

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