Historic Buildings

This week’s London Shoes trek out focussed on one of its favourite blog topics – ‘live’ music. As with a number of my previously published music related blogs, this week’s subject matter originates from my association with ‘Gentleman’ George Double, my old drum tutor from my days when I was working at Barclays in Mare ...Read more...

Those of you with a ‘sweet tooth’ may enjoy this particular London Shoes topic – a topic which is stirring and sometimes a bit lumpy. This week’s London Shoes publication is about a particular factory that has been churning out its product for over 140 years, and is still very much doing so to this ...Read more...

‘London Shoes’ had to go a little bit subterranean this week in order to reach its selected destination – when it had to walk ‘under’ the River Thames to get to the subject matter in question. Everyone knows that there are numerous bridges, train tunnels and road tunnels scattered across the ‘Smoke’, that you can ...Read more...

With old ‘London Shoes’ having visited the world famous “Ronnie Scott’s” Jazz Club, Sunday week ago – last Sunday I got the opportunity to attend another ‘live’ London music event. The same band, but with a few personnel changes – and a completely different ‘set’. The venue this time was the prestigious and totally unique ...Read more...

It was a case of ‘rain-stopped-play’ for London Shoes last week – but fortunately I had a topic ‘on-the shelf’ ready to be deployed for such occasions. A couple of week ago when I was wandering around Forest Gate in east-London, doing the ‘Trebor Factory’ blog – I happened to stumble across a pub that ...Read more...

  It’s hard to believe it today but just a couple of hundred years ago, most of the areas located just outside of the City of London, were completely rural. Prior to the onset of the industrial revolution, most of the London ‘burbs’ we know today, were just countryside littered with small villages. Some ‘village’ ...Read more...

  London Shoes received an e-mail last week from one of its followers in Australia, who enquired as to whether I knew anything about the old sweet factory that used to be located in Forest Gate–London E7 – as his grandfather had once worked there, and as a child, he remembers his grandad telling him ...Read more...

Those that follow London Shoes will be aware that they rarely walk the more popular touristy type attractions of this wonderful City – but last week an exception was made – mainly because I had the rare but absolute pleasure of having 2 accomplices for the day, namely the good lady wife Angela and my ...Read more...

Last week, ‘London Shoes’ didn’t have to venture too far from home, only a 20min train journey to the east-end for the purpose of exploring a specific area, where literally every street appears to have some sort of history behind it and its own fascinating story to tell. So – the latest article to be ...Read more...

In today’s world we are all unfortunately fully aware of the influence the drug culture and drug addiction has on society as a whole, and the social issues it creates around us. However, none of this stuff is ‘new’ as history tells us that back in London some 300 years ago, there was an even ...Read more...