Bridges

*all about London’s magnificent “Albert Bridge”
Amazingly there are a total of 35 bridges that span the River Thames between Tower Bridge & Hampton Court – my personal favourite is Hammersmith Bridge, which has featured quite a lot in the local London news lately, because it’s falling apart and being viewed as potentially unsafe. My 2nd favourite bridge is the Albert ...Read more...

* The ‘Stone-Alcoves’ of old London Bridge
The most regular type of feedback London Shoes receives every week, is from people who express their surprise and concern that they have walked past a certain historic landmark that ‘Shoes’ has covered-off – hundreds/thousands of times in their lives, and yet never noticed something or never knew what it was or the history behind ...Read more...

all about “Vauxhall” – London SE 11
For the second ‘London Shoes’ escapade of 2019 – the ‘shoes’ took me ‘darn-sarf’ of the River Thames to the district with the strange named of “Vauxhall”. For this jaunt I had the pleasure of being accompanied by my old mate Les Bannell – who I first met way back in 1974, some 45 years ...Read more...

Video Blog of “Southwark Bridge & it’s nearby historic landmarks”
A ‘Video Blog’ of:- Southwark Bridge – ‘Seedy’ Southwark & it’s nearby historic landmarks

Hammersmith Bridge – & its nearby historic landmarks
The main blog for my website this week, was all about a specific ‘bridge’ across the Thames – and some interesting historic landmarks that are ‘local’ to it. Yes…you’ve got your Tower Bridge, your London Bridge and your ‘Wobbly’ Bridge – all of which are recognised and popular tourist attractions – but for me, my ...Read more...

Southwark Bridge – & its nearby historic landmarks
For this week’s London Shoes blog walkabout, even though it was still very parky, I was fortunate enough to select a rare day lately where the sun was shining, creating such a completely different backdrop to the wonderful London scenery. The main subject matter for this week’s blog was ‘Southwark Bridge’ – but ...Read more...