Monthly Archives: November 2017

  For my culture day out this week, my London Shoes had me seeking out a topic that I knew very little about, but a subject that played a massive part in the mechanics around how the City was policed, in times gone by……….the subject matter being “Police-Call Posts”!!!! I personally had no idea of ...Read more...

  My London Shoes ‘culture’ gig this week got me researching and exploring the history behind what was, (and to some extent still is -as it is still emblazoned on many items of souvenir merchandising) – a major London related cultural visual icon, that is instantly recognisable across the globe – and that is the ...Read more...

  This week, my London Shoes transported me back to a period in time when the ‘welfare /benefit state’ as we know it today, simply did not exist. My quest was to seek out the remains of “London’s Forgotten Workhouses” Throughout the past few centuries, if you were orphaned, elderly, sick, disabled or simply unable ...Read more...

  My little jaunt to the ‘Smoke’ this week, took me to “Pickering Place” – a little alley that leads into to a public square, just off of St. James Street in the Pall Mall district. Now – there are more than 600 public squares in London, but “Pickering Place” is by far the smallest ...Read more...

For my ‘culture’ gig this week my London Shoes took me to Walthamstow “E17” (the post code-not the boy band) – an area of London that I personally had the pleasure of working in during the early 1980’s and again (as a manager) in the mid 1990’s. A short 15min train journey north from the ...Read more...