Monthly Archives: June 2020

*Dame Vera Lynn – a tribute to one of East London’s finest
As a tribute to one of east-London’s very finest, the wonderful ‘Dame Vera Lynn’, who sadly passed away on the 18th June last week, at the grand old age of 103 – ‘London Shoes’ ventured onto public transport for the first time in 3 months throughout the current Covid19 pandemic lockdown, and took a short ...Read more...

*London’s “Lost Music Venues” – Part 3-the Chalk Farm Roundhouse & the Dagenham Roundhouse
Because of the Covid19 pandemic travel restrictions, London Shoes has had to vary its approach to publishing regular articles on its website-facebook-twitter portals. Its done this by either utilising photos extracted from previous blogs, to create new topics – or alternatively, venturing out ‘locally’ to cover-off topics of historic interest within its London Bor. of ...Read more...

*all about the old “Hornchurch Airfield”
For this week’s publication onto its website/facebook & twitter feeds, London Shoes continued to adhere to the Covid19 lockdown doctrine of non-essential travel, by selecting a ‘local’ subject matter of historic interest, to trek out to and explore. Just one & a bit miles down the road from London Shoes home base in Romford, is ...Read more...