GIFT! Pocket London Tours Subscription with Presentation Box
Regular price £57.50 Sale price £52.50The recipient of a Pocket London Tours subscription will receive engaging, incisively written and architecturally adventurous walking and cycling tours directly to their door each month.
This Gift Pocket London Subscription Box comes with a bespoke handmade presentation box with gold foil inlay handmade by our friends at W MacCarthy & Sons in Woolwich as well as a bonus back issue of our Pocket London guide to Woolwich by Rosamund Lily West.
The tours feature a wide range of authors, from veteran historians to established architects and emerging critics, each unlocking stories about compelling neighbourhoods across the capital. The maps are a high quality risograph print, and are delivered in a smart black string and washer envelope for safekeeping.
Coming up in 2025...
- Brixton Churches by Alison Rae
- Stoke Newington by Lachlan Anderson-Frank
- Jewish Hackney by Charlotte Goodhart
- Queer Soho by Imogen Steinberg
- Oxford Street by Sarah Jackson
...and our first forays outside of London as Joe Clinton takes us to Coventry with other trips across the UK planned...
Note: working with different tour guides and institutions for each instalment of Pocket London sometimes means delivery date can vary from month to month but rest assured, each subscriber will receive all of the maps that are a part of their subscription. Thank you for supporting Open City's charitable works as a part of your subscription!
Please note this is a gift subscription which is not eligible for any discounts. If you would like to subscribe for yourself, and redeem a 50% discount for becoming an Open City Friend, please purchase a monthly subscription instead.
Six month and twelve month subscriptions
All prepaid subscriptions will renew on the 25th day of the month.
If you would like to cancel during the six or twelve month period, please contact a member of the Open City team on sales@open-city.org.uk who will be able to help. When you buy a longer-term subscription, the costs of the maps are cheaper as it helps us to plan ahead accurately and fund their production. Those cancelling before the end of their subscription will be refunded the remainder of their payment minus the full RRP (£7.50) of each map already received.
For new subscribers signing up before the 25th, you will receive the current month’s map on demand from our warehouse, and then will be added to the mailing list for the subsequent maps coming directly from the printer. This means that two issues may be delivered closely together, but you will receive six or twelve maps in total before shipments stop.
Monthly rolling subscriptions
Monthly subscriptions must run for a minimum of three months before cancellation. This is because a rolling subscription is offered at a discounted rate to allow us to better plan our print runs and allocate resources. If you would like to cancel sooner, please contact a member of the Open City team on sales@open-city.org.uk for advice.
For our monthly subscribers, we are unable to offer a first map on demand, so your map will arrive at the start of the following month and at the start of each month afterwards for the duration of the subscription. New orders must be received before the 25th in order to receive the map for the subsequent month. After the first payment, monthly payments are taken on the 25th of each month.
Gift subscriptions
Gift subscriptions are set up as a one-off payment product, and not managed through the ReCharge portal.
- Charles Holland, best known for designing the iconic A House for Essex with Grayson Perry as part of FAT, explores the Arts and Crafts movement in the inner city, with a cycling route from Soho to Chelsea.
- What is the future of work? Maria Lisogorskaya, founding member of Turner Prize winning collective Assemble explores a variety of productive spaces through London's past, present, and future.
- Siufan Adey and Amanda Maud take a forensic walk around Limehouse, uncovering traces of London's forgotten original Chinatown.
- In the first ever retrospective of George Finch's work, Kate Macintosh considers his legacy and the context of socially engaged architecture today.
- In the year after the Becontree Estate's centennial, Selasi Setufe, an architect working in the borough, explores the wider area's history and future.
- Owen Hatherley, editor of The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs considers Zaha Hadid's legacy in London – what was built, and what might have been?
- And much more from writers including Neal Shasore, the new head of the London School of Architecture, the writer Douglas Murphy and academic Ruth Lang.
