Course Director

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Sarah-Jane is a qualified tour guide holding badges from two London associations. Tour guiding is about telling memorable and interesting stories from the past and present and Sarah-Jane loves a good story!

Having lived in London for over 20 years Sarah-Jane loves discovering and sharing information about important local landmarks in a fun and entertaining way.

 

Sarah-Jane is a qualified art historian, with a background in the art industry. She has a keen interest in local galleries, exhibitions and street art and can often be found at art performances and special events.

Sarah-Jane regularly leads tours at Van Gogh House, exploring Vincent Van Gogh's experience of living in Lambeth between 1873-74

Sarah-Jane also leads walks for Incredible Edible Lambeth exploring local community growing projects around the borough.

Sarah-Jane only works in beautiful buildings! Having worked in church buildings for a number of years, Sarah-Jane developed an interest in the history of ecclesiastical architecture, particularly the Victorian Gothic Revival. She recently gave a lecture on G E Street for the Herne Hill Society.

Whether inside the class room, or out and about on the streets of Lambeth, Sarah-Jane enjoys sharing her passionate expertise with the next generation of Lambeth tour guides in her role as course director of the Become a Lambeth Tour Guide course at Morley College

Course Tutor

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As a holder of two Blue Badges (London, South East England), Susan has extensive experience of guiding individuals and tour groups in a wide region, in both interior sites and urban walking tours.

With an MA in Garden History, Susan especially loves to guide in parks and gardens.  She also has a particular interest in industrial history.

Susan believes that a guided tour should be an experience, and strives to instil this in the Lambeth students.  She has been a tutor on the Lambeth Tour Guiding Course for one year and has previously taught on the London Blue Badge course.

‘There is nothing more thrilling than walking an area with a guide’s eyes and noticing details and unusual occurrences.  However, after your research  there is nothing more rewarding than imparting your knowledge to your audience who express their surprise, excitement, and wish to find out more’.  

Course Tutor

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After a Degree in Music and Drama, Alison worked in several cultural sectors in London: Classical Music, Poetry ( Trustee of Poet in the City) and Theatre ( Head of Tours and Visiting, National Theatre). She has an MA in Cultural Leadership from City, University of London and is a Graduate of Open City's Golden Key Academy for Urban Tour Guiding and an Accredited Lambeth Tour Guide.

Her interests for Tours and the Lambeth Course include art & architecture, development of the city and its social history, with regular Tours for Open City on Cultural Landmarks and Wren in the City. As Cultural Landscapes, her own Tour brand, she has worked with and given Tours for Southbanklondon, Royal Opera House, Sadlers Wells, City of Westminster, London Festival of Architecture, Open House, UCL( Bartlett School of Architecture) as well as giving Talks on the development of Theatre in London.

She is an member of the Herne Hill Society and the Camberwell Society, for whom she has written on local architecture, the London Society and the Theatres Trust.

In 2024, she developed a South London tour to mark 200 year since the birth of architect G E Street and a project exploring Wren in the Middle City : Temple to Temple Bar Gatehouse.

She really likes walking and urban exploration, not just in London, and has a Compostela Certificate, received on completion of the Camino from France to Santiago in Spain, to prove it.