We love showing people round Buxton the way we’d show a good friend: unhurried, well researched, and always with time for a chat. We can’t wait to meet you.
–Rebecca and Karey
About Your Guides
Rebecca Hyder
Buxton is my home town and I love it. I first lived here as a teenager in the 1980s, where it made a lasting impression on me. I finally managed to come back in 2022.
Not long after that, I was walking between the iconic Grade I-listed Georgian Crescent and the Grade II listed Victorian Pump Room and had the sudden urge to go in and volunteer with Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust. Since then I’ve been privileged to help guide visitors and tour groups through their flagship Crescent Experience within the Crescent building, and have volunteered at various Trust events.
I also work for an NHS Centre of Excellence where I have developed a real interest in modern lifestyle medicine which has 6 pillars (healthy eating, exercise, social connection, reducing stress, good sleep, and reducing harmful substances), that map almost perfectly on to the activities that were recommended to Georgian visitors to Buxton. Well except that they had rather different ideas about what was a harmful substance then.
Karey and I met at the Trust’s Crescent Experience and soon discovered that alongside sharing the history of this wonderful town, we both love showing people around and getting to know the people we meet along the way. So we took a breath and started our own walking tour company. Big stories to tell and a town we can’t wait to share.
We’re very much looking forward to meeting you and sharing our Buxton with you.
Tour Guide
Buxton has been my home town since 2003 and I love it too. When I moved here, The Crescent was a mysterious boarded up building which you could tour with a hard hat if you were lucky enough to get a ticket during Buxton’s famous International Festival.
People told me when I first came that there was a beautiful ‘Adam’ ceiling in what had been the library (it’s actually a John Carr ‘Adam-style’ design, executed by Carr’s York plasterer James Henderson). I had followed the Crescent’s story in The Buxton Advertiser over many years; it was so full of twists and disappointments that when The Crescent was finally re-born it seemed like a miracle! I never dreamt that I might become a small part (a few lines) in the story of this magnificent building and my town.
It was a chance meeting in Lockdown at an open-air pub garden that led to me hearing about guides being hired for Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust (BCHT). I dropped my CV off almost the next day.
I have learned so much over the last 5 years working as a guide with BCHT, and have met so many amazing people, who share what has become my passionate obsession.
I am delighted to also now be working with Rebecca to provide outdoor tours through All About Buxton and to develop new ways to share Buxton’s fascinating stories.
Talks
Our Karey also offers talks through her own business. If you would like to discuss a talk with Karey,
Email: kareylh@btinternet.com
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