Anglo-Indian tour
Highlights
- A guided walking tour around London and its Anglo-Indian past.
- Perfect if you want to know the history between the countries and their people.
- Have expert private guides throughout, each with a specialist knowledge in British colonial history
- Photoshop outside Buckingham Palace
Stop 1: Tata HQ Grosvenor Place
Something about this extraordinary company. India’s largest. And one of the largest in the world. Founded in 1868.
Stop 2: Taj St James’s Court Hotel
Owned by Tata
Stop 3: Parliament Sq –
Statue of Mahatma Ghandi
There are two statues of Ghandi in London and there is much to say about him.
Stop 4: Whitehall .
Lutyens Cenotaph.
George Gilbert Scott – Designer of Foreign Office and Mumbai University
Stop 5: Veeraswamy Restaurant
Oldest In UK 1926
Lunch could be arranged here but I think I’d recommend Colonel Saab in High Holborn.
Stop 6: Ghandi statue Tavistock Sq.
More about him studying Law @ UCL.
Stop 7: Indian High Commission building
Statue of Nehru
Stop 8: Guildhall
Presentation of Guildhall frontage.
Hindoo Gothic architectural style.
No point going to ToL, unless we go inside to see Koh-I-Nor
Stop 9: Buckingham Palace and Q Victoria
Talk about jewels, and QV and her connections with India.
Empress of India.
