Monthly Archives: March 2019

  This week “London Shoes” went in search of a particular area of central London situated between Tottenham Court Road tube station in the north, and Covent Garden tube station in the south – an area that I should have already been familiar with, bearing in mind that in the late 1970’s I spent 4 ...Read more...

I have always been intrigued when reading stories about incidents where ‘lost’ music tapes of top recording artists, are discovered collecting dust in someone’s loft or attic at some obscure location. Well –“London Shoes” has had its own experience of this scenario this week, when a never published ‘lost’ blog was discovered whilst conducting a ...Read more...

This week’s ‘Shoes’ activity was slightly different from the norm – as not only did it involve the usual touch of historic culture, it also incorporated yet another ‘first’ in the world of “London Shoes”. Although the weather on my chosen day out was really lousy, and certainly not conducive to wandering London’s streets – ...Read more...

It could be said that the London Shoes topic this week caused a bit of a ‘stink’. Undertaking this particular task had me thrashing the life out of me faithful old free-travel ‘60+Oyster Card’ and also caused me to wear away a bit more of the soles of my actual (London) ‘shoes’ – as I ...Read more...

Last week’s London Shoes jaunt to the ‘smoke’ took me out west to a district of London that has always intrigued me, probably because of its bohemian and hippie notoriety when I was an impressionable teenager in the late 1960’s & early 70’s. For this trip out I was privileged to be accompanied by my ...Read more...

Yesterday evening (02/03/2019) saw a special day in the history of my beloved football team West Ham Untied – when one of the stands in its London Stadium home, was officially named after one of the clubs greatest ever, and much loved and respected players – who holds the club record for appearances – the ...Read more...