Archived Blogs

• The unique “Elms Lesters Painting Rooms” building & it’s big front door-WC2
• The history of “Kensington Palace” – one of London’s most magnificent Royal residencies
• The fabulous “Pizza Express Jazz Club”-Soho-W1 & the entertaining Chris Ingham Quintet gig
• A celebratory lunch at the world famous “Groucho Club”-Dean Street-Soho-W1
• the historic “Coldharbour” & the “Blackwall Basin”-London E14
• The “606 Club”- Chelsea-SW11 & and an evening of jazz from John Ethgeridge’s Blue Spirit Trio with special guest Art Themen
• “Bow-London E3 – its amazing history & historic landmarks”
• What London cabbies call “Hot & Cold Corner” & the “Kensington Gore”
• The “75th Anniversary of the WW2 D-Day Operation” – & the HMS Belfast’s ‘3 Gun’ commemorative salute
• London’s magnificent “Mews Houses & Streets” – Pt1-Kensington
• The Victorian “Gin Houses” of old London town !!!
• The legendary “Bud Flanagan” – from ‘cradle-to-grave’ – (an east-end boy done good)
• The spectacular “Sky Garden” & the “Garden at 120” – of Fenchurch Street EC3
• Happy 40th Birthday – to London’s “Jubilee Tube Line”
• “Legal London” – & the splendours of “Lincoln’s Inn”-“Middle Temple” & “Inner Temple”
• Dagenham’s “Dudley Moore” – his early life & all his “Jazz”
• “Come on you Irons” – An ‘Evening with Pellegrini & Noble’ – 17/04/2019
• “The Dagenham Roundhouse” & the “Village Blues Club’s” 13th Reunion
• “The ‘Other’ Palace Theatre” & a bit of “Jazz At The Movies”
• “Seven Dials”-London WC2…..it’s rise & fall & rise again !!
• The ‘Lost’ Blog – “Charles Holden” – legendary tube station architect
• The Victorian “Bath House” in Bishopsgate & a London Walking Tour experience !!
• the Victorian “Stink-Pipes” – of old London town
• the wonders of “Notting Hill”- London W11
• “Billy Bonds – Claret & Blue Army” – the London Stadium’s official naming of the ‘Billy Bonds Stand’
• “Happy 150th Birthday” – to the “District Line” tube network
• “Holy Holy” perform “The Man Who Sold the World” & “Ziggy Stardust” – ‘live’ at the “London Palladium”
• The “Polo Bar” – Bishopsgate-EC2 – London’s Classic Cafes – Pt2
• “Ronnie Scott’s Club”-Soho W1 – one of the world’s most famous Jazz clubs
• “Captain Matthew Flinders” – the first man to circumnavigate Australia – & then name it !!
• “Three Mills” E3 – London’s oldest ‘industrial’ area
• London’s historically significant – Pillar/Post Boxes
• all about “Vauxhall” – London SE 11
• Video Blog of “Southwark Bridge & it’s nearby historic landmarks”
• The “Royal Albert Hall” & Jazz in its “Elgar Room” – Xmas 2018
• London’s “Christmas Lights” 2018
• “Historic & Notorious Alleys & Passages” – Pt 1 “London-E1”
• The ‘Link Boys’ & ‘Snuffers’ of old London town!!
• The ‘Fake Houses’ of Leinster Gardens, Bayswater-W2
• “Beyond the Deepening Shadow” – the Tower of London’s tribute to the fallen heroes of WW1
• Shadwell-London E1 – inc The ‘Battle of Cable Street’ & ‘Shadwell Basin’
• “Pellicci’s” – Bethnal Green-E2 – London’s Classic Cafe’s – Pt 1
• Video Blog of – “The history of Narrow Street and Limehouse” – London E14
• Video Blog of :- “Pickering Place SW1 – London’s Smallest Public Square”
• “Greenland Dock”-Rotherhithe-London SE16 – then & now
• The life & times of “Daniel Mendoza” (1764-1836) – possibly the ‘father’ of Boxing technique
• The “Painted Hall” Greenwich – Britain’s very own ‘Sistine Chapel’!!
• London Underground – Some Fascinating Facts – Pt1
• The unique “Shell Huts” of Victoria SW1
• “Zeppelins” – & the first ever aerial attacks on London – 1915
• All aboard the “Epping-Ongar Heritage Railway”
• The magnificent “St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church” – & some afternoon Jazz
• The “Cross Bones” Graveyard-Southwark-SE1 – & the ‘Winchester Geese’
• The “Oranges & Lemons” – nursery rhyme
• The ‘Churchill Arms’ Pub – Kensington-W8 – possibly London’s most colourful pub
• The ‘Bryant & May Match Factory’ in Bow & the ‘Match Girl’ strike of 1888
• The Royal Air Force’s – 100th Birthday celebrations, in the skies above London
• Sir Alexander Fleming – the founder of penicillin
• 22 Frith Street, Soho – & the birth of Television
• All about…”Cheyne Walk” – and its interesting past residents
• Brunel’s “SS Great Eastern” & the Millwall Ironworks Shipyard
• Alexandra Palace (known as the ‘Ally Pally’)
• “Kenwood House” & “The Spaniards Inn” – Hampstead
• The “Roundhouse”-Chalk Farm & the beauty of “Primrose Hill”
• all about…..”Liverpool Street Station”
• the history of – “Postman’s Park”
• Hammersmith Bridge – & its nearby historic landmarks
• The Jewel Tower & Chapter House – lesser known landmarks of Westminster
• The “East London Cemetery” – & its links to historic events
• (Sir) Ray Davies – musically…..possibly the greatest living Londoner!!
• London’s – Oldest Curry Houses
• All about…”Smithfield Market”
• Holland Park W11 – it’s history, and it’s surrounding streets
• all about “Wardrobe Place” & “St.Andrews-by-the-Wardrobe”
• Southwark Bridge – & its nearby historic landmarks
• London – Album Covers (revisited & reconstructed)
• The “Ghost” Stations – of London
• The history of – Narrow Street & Limehouse, London E14
• The history of – St. James’s Park
• “Blackwall Point” & “Cuckolds Point” – & (the Thames) River Pirates
• London’s – Oldest Shops/Shop Fronts
• London’s – Oldest Street Name Signs
• The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster – 3rd March 1943
• London’s “Christmas Lights” 2017 – & the history of the displays
• London’s – Historic “Police-Call Posts”
• London’s – Iconic Red Telephone Boxes
• London’s – Forgotten Workhouses
• Pickering Place SW1 – London’s Smallest Public Square
• “God’s Own Junkyard” – Walthamstow E17
• London’s – lost Cockfighting Pits
• The Savoy Hotel – and its surrounding history
• The peace & tranquility of – “St. Dunstan’s-in-the-East
• The “7 Noses of Soho”
• London’s – Water Pumps, Drinking Fountains & Horse Troughs
• London’s – Cabman Shelters
• Nostalgia & Hitchcock
• Survivors of the Great Fire of London
• Bong-less Big Ben
• Scottish London
• Trinity Buoy Wharf & London’s only Lighthouse
• Joseph Bazalgette & the construction of London’s Sewers
• All about – Brick Lane
• Marc Bolan’s London – from cradle to grave
• The Time Benches – of Euston Station
• London’s – Oldest Tree
• London Tube – ‘Roundels’
• London’s ‘Necropolis Railway’
• London’s – old Fire Stations
• The Houndsditch Murders and the Sidney Street Siege of 1911
• Chiswick House & Gardens
• David Bowie’s – London
• London’s – Gates
• London’s – Notorious ‘Execution Sites’
• A “Toilet Tour” of London
• Apsley House – No.1 London!!
• All about – “Highgate Cemetery”
• London’s strange street names – and their origins
• London’s Ghost Signs
• Jimi Hendrix & the Hard Rock Cafe
• The Beatles – London
• London’s – “Tiny Tour”