Cemeteries

    When I started the London Shoes website, my intention was to publish material concerning London’s lesser known, and more unusual aspects of its history – which I felt people might find interesting, particularly Londoners like me who spent a lifetime walking past landmarks and places, without even knowing they were there and totally ...Read more...

Although possibly viewed by some as a bit of a macabre topic, this week’s London Shoes took me off to one of London’s lesser known public cemetery’s – but one which holds a whole wealth of significant connections to London and particularly the East End’s history – This visit also, and quite unintentionally on my ...Read more...

For my ‘culture’ gig this week my London shoes took me to a location that could be described as an ‘oasis of tranquility in a desert storm’ (very much like me, I guess ) – and that is “St. Dunstan-in-the East” – a small church site tucked away down a little side street, about 5mins ...Read more...

For this weeks ‘culture’ trip I had the pleasure of being accompanied by the dear old GLW (eg good lady wife), as we set out to locate London’s ‘oldest’ tree – an ancient, gnarled, withered and stunted old thing………but she’s good to the kids (boom boom) The subject matter is a thriving Yew tree that ...Read more...

My ‘culture’ gig this week was a rather strange one, because (as Michael Caine would say) “Not a lot of people know that”……and it concerns London’s ‘Necropolis Railway’ also known as the ‘Death Railway’!!! Halfway between Lower Marsh street and Lambeth North tube station is 121 Westminster Bridge Road. As a building, it’s a lot ...Read more...

My ‘culture’ visit at the very beginning of this week, was to Highgate Cemetery in North London. Now that may appear slightly macabre and strange to some, but it is a place that I have always wanted to visit, but never found the time to do so. The graveyard was opened in 1839, and designed ...Read more...