Cold walking in to firms to drop off CV and intro myself.. Good idea or not?

I have a pretty strong set of summer and off-cycle internship experiences across investment teams at top banks/investment managers. However I graduated this year and have no permanent roles lined up. 

So far I've been doing a lot of networking/coffee chats (in person) but a contact recently told me that the best way is just to print out a bunch of CV's and cover letters and walk into firms in the city asking to speak to the hiring managers to drop them off/intro myself. 

This contact said that was his way in (probably almost 10yrs ago) and now works for a family office of a family that everyone on this site would know.

I did it today for a few very small firms just to report back to the contact that I'd followed his advice but  the people did seem to genuinely appreciate it. Not sure if it's a good idea going forward at places I'd actually be very keen to work.

This is in London btw,

Would appreciate any and alll thoughts!  

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