Historic Docks

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...

This week’s ‘London Shoes’ escapade had a touch of irony about it as the actual location visited is only a few hundred yards away from where I used to work in Canary Wharf – and yet, in all the 15 or so years that I worked there, I had never ever ventured anywhere near the ...Read more...

  This week’s London Shoes expedition took me to the east end of London, and to a small area down by the Thames a mile or so to the east of the Tower of London. It may just be a small district, but it is a place steeped in history – and a place where ...Read more...

A ‘Video Blog’ of:- The history of Narrow Street and Limehouse – London E14

For the publication onto the London Shoes website this week – I decided to take advantage of the unusually warm and sunny weather, and venture across the ‘Water’ in the direction of ‘Sarf’ London (e.g. the dark side) to check out a particular place of London’s historic old docklands, that I had never visited before ...Read more...

  It’s weird how you think you know a place and particularly its history very well, and yet it turns out that you actually know very little. You can pass by something many times and yet not notice or be aware of the relevance of its past. Well – my little jaunt out to the ...Read more...

For this week, the entry on to my London Shoes website is about a small specific area of London right alongside the Thames and not very far away from where I worked in Carnary Wharf – but, although small, a place that has a wealth of nautical and social history. The subject matter for my ...Read more...

I originally had doubts about the content of my little ‘culture’ gig for this week – as I wasn’t too sure what I would actually find when I got to the designated location, as I had never been there before – However, I was pleasantly surprised to have stumbled upon a place that I believe ...Read more...