Alleyways and Shadows: The Old City Ghost Walk

This walking tour is a great way of taking in the sights and history of old London City with a bit of «most haunted» thrown in for good measure. The guide, Richard, is friendly and appropriately theatrical as he brings the crowd from landmark to landmark.
The narrow alleyways we traipsed through included the one where Dickens set Ebenezer Scrooge’s office, below a sit of windows reputedly haunted by a young girl in white. There were a few graveyards along the way and even a haunted cobblestone (warming: don’t bring it home as one girl apparently did!).
Our guide also stopped to show us where some Diagon Alley scenes were shot, adding that he has a free PDF guide to all the Harry Potter spots on his website.
At the tour’s end he recommended we take the glass elevator up to the top of a shopping centre opposite St. Paul’s cathedral. The view of the cathedral and surrounding landmarks (the Pickle and the London Eye) was breathtaking.
Take this tour even if ghost stories aren’t your thing: it’s all about London’s past (we even passed some remains of the wall of the original Roman city of Londinium & stood within the boundary of a coliseum). But do wear comfortable shoes and prepare for a long walk!