Upcoming Tours
Lost in the Hills: Bike, Barn, Festival
Highlights: quirky festivals, ancient pubs, scenic rides, chilled camping.
Zig Zags Xmas Party 2024
Highlights: all about the diaries of the 4th Duke of Newcastle.
Ferment Design and Trespass
Highlights: trespass, fermentation, autumnal scenes, good food and design – a super autumnal weekend in the Peaks.
Lost in the Wolds Weekender
Highlights: lost villages, foraging, area of outstanding natural beauty.
Lost in the Hills: Bike, Camp, Festival
Highlights: quirky festivals, ancient pubs, scenic rides, chilled camping.
Georgian Townhouses of Nottingham
Highlights: abandoned buildings, Squirearchy, People's Hall, Lace Market.
African Enslavement and the Historic Development of Nottingham led by Dr James Dawkins & Dr Susanne Seymour
Highlights: local history, Standing In This Place.
Abandoned Buildings
Highlights: abandoned historic buildings, architecture gems, conservation, urban exploration.
Nottingham's 20th Century Pubs (Crawl)
Highlights: historic pubs, architecture gems, beers.
Derwent Valley
Highlights: UNESCO World Heritage Site, cotton mills, model village, start of industrial revolution, Richard Arkwright.
Notts Food & Wine
Highlights: South Notts villages, Stilton cheese, locally made wine, canal paths, country lanes, old railway tracks.
1845 Nottingham Enclosure Act
Highlights: commons, slums, housing developments, urban history, aperitivo.
Raleigh Cycle Tour
Highlights: Raleigh Cycle Company, Raleigh Street, The Howitt Building, workers’ rights, Nottingham Industrial Museum, Humber, Primary
Nottingham Lace
Highlights: Elegant Italianate Victorian Warehouses; Functional Tenement Lace Factories; Slum Housing; the Domestic Labour Environment; Georgian Industrial ‘Satellite Villages’ of Hyson Green, Radford and Lenton.
The Dukeries Weekender
Highlights: The eccentric 5th Duke of Portland and his labyrinthine underground tunnels; the reactionary 4th Duke of Newcastle and his delusional feudal fantasies; dissolved medieval monasteries, enormous country houses and bucolic parkland, inter-woven by miles and miles of level gradient, cycle-friendly public bridleways.
The Luddites
Highlights: The Domestic Lace Industry; Framework Knitting Workshops; Slum Housing; Vernacular Villages; Frame Breaking; Protest, Anarchy and Revolution (almost).
Vienna in Long Eaton
Highlights: Massive Tenement Lace Factories; Abstract Viennese Secessionism; Edwardian Civic Grandeur; High Arts & Crafts Mansions.
North Notts Coalfields
Highlights: Bauhaus Headstocks; a Colliery Model Village Housing Estate; a Ducal Vanity Project.