About this Event
Walk starts: Victoria Embankment Gardens, Villiers St, next to Embankment Station, WC2N 6NS. Meet at the garden entrance on the right if you are exiting Embankment tube station at the Villers Street exit. Even if you are not travelling by tube this advice will guide you to the correct garden entrance.
I highly advise using WhatThreeWords to look up the exact location before you leave home: at https://what3words.com/link.belong.logs
There are public toilets on the Embankment side of the station - please leave plenty of time to do this if you need to visit before the walk - walk and exit on the river side of the station and turn left to find the toilets and baby change. If for any reason the gate is locked they can also be accessed by entering the next gate into the gardens and walking around the block.
Walk ends: Red Lion Square, Holborn
Halfway stop for lunch at The Watch House cafe, Somerset House, Aldwych, where there are also toilets and baby change.
'Bring Your Baby' Guided London Walks are sensitively devised to suit parents and carers of even the tiniest babies to enjoy London’s history. We can stop whenever you like to feed and change - without the stress of feeling you are holding up the group. Because every participant brings their baby, patience and baby’s needs are at the forefront of each walk.
Both buggies and slings are welcome. We plan all our routes to be buggy-friendly and step-free.
You are welcome to bring friends and family who do not also have a baby. Please note that every adult attending needs a ticket.
This walk is written and guided by City of London guide Sue Doe, co-writer of the best-selling 'Women from Hackney's History' Volumes I & II (2021 & 2025).
Walk description:
- The HQ of the Women’s Freedom League and the WSPU, the two main suffrage organisations - hear stories about The Pankhursts, Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and Gladys Evans.
- The site where suffragettes skated all night to avoid the Census in 1911 (and their favourite vegetarian restaurant).
- Emma Hamilton, courtesan, who is best remembered as the mistress of naval hero Lord Nelson and the muse of artist George Romney.
- The home of the first woman Cabinet minister, Margaret Bonfield.
- Sarah Siddons, Welsh actress, and the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century.
- Where Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first woman Prime Minister, lived.
- Fanny Wilkinson, eminent garden designer, responsible for the design and the layout of more than 75 public gardens across London in the late 19th century.
- Eleanor Coade, 18th businesswoman who invented 'Coade' stone, used in many buildings around the Adelphi.
- Ethel Ayres Purdie, suffragist, accountant, who ran the Women Taxpayers Agency
- Beatrice Webb and Charlotte Payne Townshend, founder and funder of the LSE.
- Florence Fenwick Miller, suffragist, journalist, owned the Woman’s Signal published in Covent Garden.
- The Old Curiosity Shop.
- Lincoln’s Inn.
- The Adelphi, full of striking buildings and the home of an 18th century doctor who made the Great Celestial Bed.
If on the day of the walk we are forecast to have very bad weather, I may have to postpone the walk. If it's a bit of light rain we will cope!
Every walk follows the usual health and safety guidelines, such as crossing at traffic lights where possible and having hazards pointed out to you at the start and along the route.
There may be times we have to stand in direct sunlight (although I will always choose shade where possible). Please bring all the necessary sun protection for yourself and your child.
It is recommended you bring appropriate drinks and snacks for the duration of the walk.
I will contact you with booking confirmation after you book. I will supply my mobile number in case of emergencies or in case you are running late. I will also ask you to provide me with a mobile number so you can be contacted before, during or after the walk, but this is *not for marketing purposes*.
If you like the look of any of my walks, but would prefer to book me privately, please make enquiries at [email protected]. This may particularly be the case if you have people interested who do not have babies.
Important notes about booking:
- Please feel free to invite baby-free friends.
- Children are the responsibility of the parent or guardian, and must be monitored by them at all times.
- Refunds or requests to move to a future event or date must be requested within 24 hours of the event commencing so that we can try to refill the space in adequate time.
- If for any reason Bring Your Baby Ltd are forced to cancel or postpone an event (for example in the case of illness or extreme weather conditions), you are within your rights to request a refund, though we will always suggest an alternative date for you to attend.
- On occasion we take photos or short video clips at our 'Bring Your Baby Pub Quizzes' or 'Bring Your Baby Guided London Walks'. By attending you are giving your permission for these to be used for Bring Your Baby Ltd promotional purposes. Any individual who we have taken a photograph of and published can request that any photographs are removed and deleted at any time. Even if they have given consent when booking according to our terms and conditions, they can of course withdraw their consent and can contact us at [email protected]
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Victoria Embankment Gardens, Villiers Street, London, United Kingdom
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