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Golden Key Academy tours

These tours are led by participants of Open City’s Golden Key Academy 2025 – a course training up insightful and engaging guides dedicated to explaining London and bringing its many stories to life.

Applications for 2026 are now open! Further information on the Golden Key Academy can be found here open-city.org.uk/golden-key-academy

Unpack my story of North Kensington’s rich history on this guided walk. My family was one of the first families to move into the Brutalist-style Trellick Tower. From rural roots to industrial hub, class divides to cultural revolution – discover hidden stories, iconic sites, and how migration and activism shaped a vibrant, ever-changing community like no other: my childhood playground.

This tour takes visitors around the haunts and homes of famous Victorian artists, both international and local, and explores the connections between these personalities and their work, the wider impact of their art on society then and now, and the excitement of the Victorian time period's prolific artistic output and invention.