Historic Buildings

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...

Those that follow the “London Shoes” website and/or Twitter feed, will have probably assumed (like me), that the previous week’s blog about “London’s Xmas Lights”, was the ideal fitting finale to bring 2018’s blog activity to a natural conclusion. However, (and totally unplanned) I just happened to attend an event last week, that not only ...Read more...

  Those of you that follow my London Shoes blogs will be aware that I try to steer clear of the more ‘touristy’ landmarks/ & locations of this wonderful City – but last week was an exception, as it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to (literally) get right up close to, and experience something happening at ...Read more...

  Following a break for a couple of weeks, due to holiday commitments etc – it was good to get back ‘on the road’ again this week and return to publishing stuff on the ‘London Shoes’ website. This week’s topic focused on a building that I have passed by many hundreds of times during my ...Read more...

     My little trek out this week, took me to a place that I had actually visited a couple of times before, but many years ago, back in my youth. Since then it has gone through a number of considerable transformations, and is today one of London’s lesser known, but still remarkable landmark. The ...Read more...

    Making good use of the English Heritage ‘Pensioners’ Membership that my 2 daughters very kindly got me & my missus for a Christmas prezzie – I  stepped out into the grey, rainy and cold London air yesterday, to create a sort of ‘mini blog’ for my London Shoes website – in search of ...Read more...

My little bit of history ‘culture’ for inclusion on my website this week, focussed on a quite a simple subject matter, that some would probably view as not too exciting – however, upon closer research, it is one that is steeped in history, going back some 300 years in some cases, and it’s remarkable to ...Read more...

  This week, my London Shoes transported me back to a period in time when the ‘welfare /benefit state’ as we know it today, simply did not exist. My quest was to seek out the remains of “London’s Forgotten Workhouses” Throughout the past few centuries, if you were orphaned, elderly, sick, disabled or simply unable ...Read more...

My little culture gig for this week (in my London Shoes) surprisingly took in a lot more than I had originally planned – and in doing so, I unexpectedly unfathomed some really historically interesting facts that I previously knew nothing about. My initial theme for the week was originally musically orientated, as my intention was ...Read more...

  With the breaking news this week that one of London’s most globally recognised landmarks Big Ben, is going to be ‘bong-less’ for an estimated period of 4 years whilst essential restoration work is undertaken – I thought that I would pay a ‘culture’ visit down to Westminster to see what’s going on, and to ...Read more...