Good Omens Tours of London

19/08/2026

Heads up all making their way to the tour start point this morning. Please set off early if possible and double check the route you’re planning to take, as of 6:40am there’s disruption on the network due to a fire at Farringdon.

Use the free “TFL go” app to help navigate the network, or consult TFL staff at your start station for advice, as they can help you plan your journey to avoid disruptions.

15/08/2026

Preparation for the tour: whilst there is a possibility of rain, it’s not guaranteed, but we go ahead rain or shine so it’s a good idea to bring an umbrella or lightweight waterproof jacket just in case.

We will be pausing for refreshments along the way at the enterprise and Criterion, but given the current heat, it’s wise to carry water particularly on the tube which gets hotter on some deep lines. There are free water bottle refill stations around London, including one at King’s Cross station near our start point if you need to top up. It’s at the back near the luggage storage facility. (Where you can leave heavy bags to come back and collect later if needed).

It’s only meant to get up to 26°C on Wednesday (78.8F), the humidity can make it feel warmer, so I’d advise to dress lightly, and carry a fan if possible.

I will carry with me some iced water, cooling cloths, ice blocks, and a fan in case of emergency so let me know if you’re feeling overheated.

Photos show how to get to the luggage storage facility and water bottle refill point in King’s Cross.

From the tour start point, cross the road and enter King’s Cross at the main entrance on the left.

Keep right and go to the very back, under the stairs on the left is the luggage store place, on the right is the water point.

14/08/2026

Well that's the new tour notes edited for Wednesday's for the group. Tables reserved at the Criterion for Lunch, gift packs prepared, organic pigeon & duck food refilled. Several new things to see/learn on the route this time plus a special new S3 location added!

DM if you'd like to join, it's Wednesday 19th August, we meet at 10am outside Costa Coffee at the corner of St Pancras.

The tour doesn't clash with any of the evening events like the karaoke, so you can still go to those afterwards.

The tour is at a gentle pace with lots of pauses to look at things along the way, as well as bathroom and refreshment breaks. It is wheelchair accessible and there are several accessible bathrooms along the route. The Tour should generally finish about 5-6pm as larger groups move slower than the small tours. If you need to leave earlier though it's no problem, I can make sure you get a taxi to wherever you need to be in time so long as you let me know.

What 3 Words reference for the meeting point is Supply.Penny.Below aerial photos to help you get oriented after you leave the station.

Those who have already paid and confirmed, I will send a "glympse" tracking link on the morning of the tour to make it easier for you see where I am to meet up.

18/05/2026

Why London cabbies are literally the best in the world, zero hyperbole.

17/05/2026

15/05/2026

Ineffable events on Bluesky have organised this Good Omems picnic at 12pm on SUNDAY the 17th May in St. James’s Park at The Bench.

Everyone welcome! Just come along. Cosplay if you’d like to.

Bring your own picnic, but I’ll be bringing lots of home baked goodies to share too, including:

Vegan jam tarts & lemon curd tarts
Dairy free carrot cake
Cheese twists
Eccles cakes (made specially by my local bakers)
Crisps & dips.

If the weather turns inclement we will move inside to the café on site. It has an accessible bathroom.

Closest accessible tube station is Green Park.

See you there!

12/05/2026

A sight that will be familiar to many: the hut in Soho Square. What actually is it though?

Despite it's appearance it is not a Tudor structure but in fact dates from 1925, designed in this charming mock-Tudor style.

It was built to hide the entrance to an electricity substation below the square, for the Charing Cross Electrical Company. In World War Two the space beneath was used as an air-raid shelter, shielding 150-200 people initially.

Now it appears to be just used as a storage shed for gardening tools by Westminster City Council. The 3,200 square foot subterranean space was actually put up for sale in 2015 for £175,000 garnering the interest of restaurants and other events companies, but, it appears, to no avail.

12/05/2026

Remember the S1 deleted scene with Crowley and his army of rats taking down BT tower? Well the real thing was decommissioned some time ago and is being redeveloped into a hotel, here are the plans.

08/02/2026

Whilst not a Good Omens filming location, we do go past the British Library at the start of the tour - a copy of every book/publication ever published in the UK is held here in its vast underground archives, and the overflow archives up in Boston Spa in North Yorkshire.

Anyone is able to view any item in the collection, you reserve it online and are given a date and time when you can view it within the library. They'll arrange for it to be transported down from Yorkshire if it's not one held in the vaults.

The underground vaults themselves are controlled by a complex robotic system which can retrieve and organise books to help the librarians.

It's not just books but newspapers, magazines, trade journals, government pamphlets etc. And whilst self-published book authors don't *have* to submit a copy, they can choose to, and the British Library will accept it and add it to the archive.

Fun fact - I know that there are also some Good Omens fan zines in there which the creators chose to submit! Which is an odd thought.

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15/01/2026

This is something I mention on the tour as we go along - the clean air act and how most of London was completely black with soot for centuries, until open coal and wood fires were outlawed in the 1950s after smog pollution affected hundreds of thousands of people terminally, and the government finally said enough was enough.

After this, the big clean up began, and here is some newly released BBC footage from that era showing St. Paul's Cathedral undergoing its first ever big clean up which removed INCHES thick build-up of black soot which had been accumulating since the moment it was built.

Unfortunately continued pollution from vehicles meant it had to be cleaned again in the 1970s, but since gradually tightening congestion efforts since then, London has become cleaner and cleaner over the years, and now the cleaned buildings are mostly staying that way.

But look up, and occasionally you can still spot the odd blackened building which never got cleaned since the 1950s clean air act, and they still show evidence of the city's past.

"Even the man who built it, Sir Christopher Wren, never saw it looking quite so s***k and span."By the time it was finished in 1710, St Paul's Cathedral was ...