Why is this place so special? Just something about it, and I guess it has always been so - otherwise why did so many ancestors go there to live???
As with all of our Tour, you are free to chose to participate in what is planned or not - your choice. If this is your first visit to London, you may wish to do some 'touristy' things when we are visiting a repository. That's fine.
Even so, it is still nice to be with a group. It's amazing how often we spot our Hooked on Genealogy bags on the tube!!
You will have a ten days-one-section London Travel Pass to use as you wish.
Jan will have arranged lectures where appropriate and will escort you to the repositories - no need to arrive feeling bewildered. Lectures are a good way to find out what is available in a short space of time. And a way to begin a relationship with the archivist! They recognise you from the lecture and vice versa. There is usually time to go back and revisit the places of your choice.