About Your Guide

Paul Baker qualified as a City of London guide in 2003. As well as conducting walks in the City and the West End, he has been leading walks in Barnet since 2004.

“It’s a passion,” he says. “This is the area I live in, so I feel a personal interest in it. Barnet has so much history – I’m lucky I have so much to talk about. And the best thing is that at least half the people who come on my tours are local. They give me lots of personal information and reminiscences which I can then add to my tours. When you can personalise it, people prick up their ears.”

Paul also has a broad repertoire of walks outside the borough, in central, north, east, south and west London and beyond.

Paul’s background was in school teaching, specialising in French. His wife, Ginette, is French. They have been living in London for 40 years, the last 35 of them in Barnet, and have two children, Julian and Claire.

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