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'BRING YOUR BABY' GUIDED LONDON WALK: 'NURSERY RHYMES LONDON: ROYALS, REBELLION & WRITERS'

BRING YOUR BABY

From the award-winning creator of BRING YOUR BABY PUB QUIZZES

  • Tuesdays 11:00–14:00

Outside The Banqueting House Whitehall, London, Greater London, SW1A 2ER

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NB: This event MUST be booked in advance. No drop-ins.

Description

**Stop for lunch/coffee halfway at The Cafe in the Crypt at St. Martin's in the Fields, Trafalgar Square where there is also a baby change.**

You are welcome to bring friends and family who do not also have a baby.

Learn the origins of these nursery rhymes:
- The Grand Old Duke of York
- Georgie Porgie
- Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Oranges & Lemons
- Lucy Locket
- See-Saw Marjory Daw
- London Bridge is Falling Down
- As I Was Going to Charing Cross
- Higgledy, Piggledy, My Black Hen
- What Are Little Boys Made Of?

Hear about this lot:
- Charles I
- Charles II
- Oliver Cromwell, Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon & Anne Boleyn
- 'Mad' King George III
- Lord Nelson & Emma Hamilton
- Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Charles Dickens (‘Oliver Twist’)
- Daphne Du Maurier (‘Rebecca’)
- George Bernard Shaw (‘Pygmalion’ a.k.a. ‘My Fair Lady’)
- J.M. Barrie (‘Peter Pan’)
- Thomas Hardy (‘Far From the Madding Crowd’)
- Rudyard Kipling (‘The Jungle Book’)
- John Galsworthy (‘The Forsyte Saga’)

See these places:
- King Charles I's place of public execution on Whitehall
- London's first pavements
- A secret World War 2 and Cold War bunker
- A pub which is still technically a legal brothel
- The site of Dickens' childhood job at a boot-blacking factory
- Remains of Henry VIII’s Whitehall Palace
- London's last remaining ancient Thames watergate which once stood outside George Porgie’s house
- Underground tunnels by the Thames used by Dickens
- Houses once lived in by Samuel Pepys', J.M. Barrie, Herman Melville, John Galsworthy and Rudyard Kipling
- The sites of the Adelphi Buildings, medieval Durham House and the Savoy Palace

Customer refunds must be requested at least 24 hours before an event starts. We cannot guarantee you can move your ticket to another date but you are welcome to enquire at [email protected]

Booking info & prices

Important notes: - 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. - 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 the email provided. - At 'Bring Your Baby Pub Quizzes', we understand that the parent or guardian will want to keep sleeping babies close to their table in baby carriers (including, for example: prams, buggies or car seats). However if babies are awake we reserve the right to ask the parent or guardian to move their baby carrier into a designated area of the venue to meet health and safety requirements (such as clear access to fire exits and clear walkways).

Prices
  • Additional adult without baby: £20.00
  • Adult ticket (children go free but each adult needs a ticket): £20.00

Booking info & prices

Important notes: - 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. - 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 the email provided. - At 'Bring Your Baby Pub Quizzes', we understand that the parent or guardian will want to keep sleeping babies close to their table in baby carriers (including, for example: prams, buggies or car seats). However if babies are awake we reserve the right to ask the parent or guardian to move their baby carrier into a designated area of the venue to meet health and safety requirements (such as clear access to fire exits and clear walkways).

Prices
  • Additional adult without baby: £20.00
  • Adult ticket (children go free but each adult needs a ticket): £20.00
Contact
Lucy Madison