Walks 2025

All walks are £3 - tickets can be purchased by clicking through to our ticketing website from the title of the event except those ticketed externally indicated by *.

Time \| Location	Guide	Title & Description
Sun 4th May - 10am	Black History Walks*	Hackney (Dalston) Black History Walk This walk recognises 75 years since the SS Windrush arrived from the Caribbean. This tour starts with the 1950's and goes right up to the 21st century. Tickets and details here
Sun 4th May - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Location: Hoxton Station, E2 8FF	Lesley Thompson	Historic Hoxton Once a run down area on the edge of the East End, now an amazing mix of old and new, the dilapidated and fashionable, Tudor retreats, almshouses, elegant squares and workhouses, a connection with the Gunpowder Plot, a place of entertainment, then a descent into poverty, workhouses and burial grounds.
Sun 4th May - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Location: Dalston Junction station	Jill Drower	The Exploding Galaxy Once a run down area on the edge of the East End, now an amazing mix of old and new, the dilapidated and fashionable, Tudor retreats, almshouses, elegant squares and workhouses, a connection with the Gunpowder Plot, a place of entertainment, then a descent into poverty, workhouses and burial grounds.Oh the shenanigans at number 99 Balls Pond Road”: Performance Art, LSD and Bent Coppers in the Sixties Counterculture.
Wed 7th May - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Location: Entrance to Homerton Station, Barnabas Rd, E9 5SB	Sean Gubbins	Homerton Stretching along a ridge sloping down to two rivers, Homerton was once the wealthiest, most populous part of Hackney. Home to dissenters and paupers, its social decline was brought about by the coming of industry, railways and hospitals. Perhaps the last part of Hackney to submit to ‘gentrification’, catch it before Homerton changes again.
Sun 11th May - 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Location: Entrance to Homerton Station, Barnabas Rd, E9 5SB	Hackney Tours and Wick Award	Happening in Hackney Wick Hackney Tours and Wick Award want to show you how this neighbourhood has reinvented itself over the last 150 years - and why it's so full of fascinating stories. From Victorian industrial pioneers to the artists of the noughties to the people of today that make it such a strong community, join us for a deep dive into Hackney Wick. Then either head home or stay and join us for a drink in one of the Wick's most interesting venues.
Wed 14th May - 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Location: Geffrye Street entrance to Hoxton Station	Sean Gubbins	Hoxton Take a walk past the Town Squares, Mad Houses and Music Halls of Hoxton, part of the ancient parish of Shoreditch. Find out where the Gunpowder Plot was given away, who made light from rubbish and where you can train for the circus. 2 hour walk ending at Hoxton Street.
Sat 17th May 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Location: Haggerston Station, E8 4DY	Lesley Thompson	De Beauvoir Town walk Royal hunting ground to 19C residential estate. De Beauvoir Town lies on the south-western border of Hackney and is still sometimes called ‘Kingsland’ because Henry VIII hunted here. It is distinct from but nestled up close to Dalston, London Fields, the Regent’s Canal, Shoreditch, south east Islington and Mildmay. This walk winds through the early/mid 19C streets and beautiful central square, a historic canal basin, lost churches, site of a cattle market and much more.
Sun 18th May 1pm	Rabbi Mendy*	Jewish Stamford Hill Discover Stamford Hill and its Chasidic communities. Tickets here
Sun 18th May - 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Location: Outside Sutton House, E9 6JQ	Hidden Tudor Tours	East India Company in Hackney Join us for a 90-minute walking tour through the streets of Hackney and discover the lesser-known ties to one of Britain's most influential trading companies - the East India Company. From the grand manor houses once owned by EIC directors to the asylum for mentally ill staff, this tour will shed light on Hackney's East India Company connections.
Sun 18th May - 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Location: Abney Park entrance	Pathways to Ancient Britain	Hackney’s Stone Age Past Join us for a guided walk through Hackney’s Stone Age landscape, where we'll explore the key locations that reveal the stories of the humans and animals that once roamed this area. Starting at Abney Park Cemetery, we’ll trace the footsteps of Victorian antiquarians like George Worthington Smith and Joseph Exall Greenhill, whose discoveries have shaped our understanding of Hackney’s ancient past.
Mon 19th May - 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Location: Hackney Town Hall Square, E8 1EA	Tom Hunter	Squatting, a walking tour of central Hackney Tom Hunter, who squatted in Central Hackney from the mid 80’s until the end of the 90’s, will take you on a guided tour of his old homes and theatres of fun and entertainment. Starting at the Town Hall square, where ‘The Spiky Thing With Curves’ occupied the old Salvation Army building and the Weatherspoon’s pub, winding through back streets and old traveller yards along with Cinemas and Bingo halls all within 100 yards of Mare street. On this journey Tom will be reliving and retelling tales of all night raves, electric shocks, murders and a creative energy which changed Hackney forever.
Sat 24th May - 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Location: Shrubland Grow Box Garden, E8 4NN	Shrubland Grow Box Garden	Closed pub walk Shrubland Road runs from Queensbridge Road to London Fields - 100 dwellings. It appears to be a quiet, residential road but it has a history of riots, 2 killed by German bombing in WWI, a hub of illegal gambling and much more. Back in the 1890s, it became the centre of a campaign to close local pubs. The vicarage of St Mary Church (designed by John Nash) was situated on the site now occupied by Lovell House and the vicar help to set up the Vigilance Committee ‘to procure a diminution of the Licensed houses’. Although the campaign failed in the 1890s most of the pubs had disappeared by the end of the 20th century.