The Archive · 1939

Guides May Be Licensed

Dominion visitors "doing" the sights of London often are glad to enlist the services of a guide. Uns. fortunately those who offer to show the town's attractions to people from Overseas ate not always as well-informed as they might be, and occasionally are all too ready to fall back upon imagination when knowledge fails.

Anyone can set up as a guide. It is not surprising that undesirable characters sometimes adopt the profession. More than one confidence trickster has begun his campaign by offering to reveal the exact spot where the little Princes were murdered in the Tower, Dominion and American visitors usually are well able to take care of themselves, but Occasionally one gets fleeced.

A determined effort is being made to put an end to this nuisance of unreliable and sometimes criminal touts masquerading as guides.

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