Historic Buildings

Anyone visiting the ‘Smoke’ during the past couple of years will be aware that one of the capital’s most globally recognised landmarks ‘Big Ben’ has been scaffolded and boarded up whilst it undergoes 4 years of essential repairs. In fact back in August 2017 my London Shoes website published a blog entitled “Bong-less’ Big Ben” ...Read more...

Under a dull, grey, damp and miserable London sky last week, London Shoes took the short train journey from its base – into the City’s ‘Square Mile’, for the purpose of exploring a historic London landmark that’s been a ‘constant’ since the 1300’s and quite possibly since Roman times………..the structurally magnificent and splendid:- “Leadenhall Market”-London ...Read more...

Although the temperatures in the ‘Smoke’ this week were a bit bonkers, there was a serious need for London Shoes to build up the old fitness levels, and so I braved the heat and headed-off on a short 15min train journey to the site of this week’s chosen subject matter. Anyone who has travelled by ...Read more...

This week London Shoes ventured out onto public transport for only the second time in the 3 months+ during these strange Covid19 virus pandemic travel restricted times – and headed off to Barkingside in the London Borough of Redbridge and also  Mile End in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets  – for the purpose of ...Read more...

Because of the Covid19 pandemic travel restrictions, London Shoes has had to vary its approach to publishing regular articles on its website-facebook-twitter portals. Its done this by either utilising photos extracted from previous blogs, to create new topics – or alternatively, venturing out ‘locally’ to cover-off topics of historic interest within its London Bor. of ...Read more...

Because of the Covid19 virus lockdown situation, London Shoes has obviously had to temporarily suspend the weekly jaunts out to the big ‘Smoke’. Fortunately, during this current ‘lockdown’ period, ‘Shoes’ has still been able to post regular articles to its Website-Facebook & Twitter portals, by utilising material that had been collated but had not yet ...Read more...

Last week was quite a unique one for ‘London Shoes’, when I received an invitation from 2 highly acclaimed ‘London Walking Tour’ guides, asking me if I would like to accompany them on a ‘new’ tour they’ve designed – as they would value my feedback of the tour, its content and its delivery – before ...Read more...

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...