Parks & Public Squares

  Last Saturday the 14th September, I had the pleasure of experiencing my very first ‘Proms-in-the-Park’ event at Hyde Park here in London – and I have to say that surprisingly, I found myself enjoying it much more than I had initially expected. The ‘Proms’ event itself is a globally recognised annual musical event, that ...Read more...

  ‘London Shoes’ doesn’t normally visit the more popular tourist attractions and landmarks of the big ‘Smoke’ – however, it made an exception this week, and ventured out to visit 2 locations, both under the same theme of ‘up on the roof’. One of these locations has been around for the past 4 years, and ...Read more...

This week, me old ‘London Shoes’ sort of felt like they were being called ‘up before the beak’ and having their ‘collar felt’. The London Shoes blog published this week, goes under the title of “Legal London” – and focusses on 3 specific locations and the stacks of history behind them, and what these locations ...Read more...

A ‘Video Blog’ of :- London’s smallest public square

     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...

       It made such a pleasant change to conduct this week’s blog for the London Shoes website, in warm sunny weather, rather than the grey, cold and wet backdrop I’ve contended with throughout the previous months. The subject matter for this week’s little jaunt out to the ‘smoke’ focussed on a tiny little ...Read more...

Following last week’s fun and games with the weather – I was pleased to be able to bung on my London Shoes and get back out on the road in search of more unusual aspects of the ‘smokes’ history. This week’s adventure took me across to west London to explore a specific district of London ...Read more...

    For my ‘culture’ blog this week, my London Shoes led me to one of London’s popular tourist attractions. I tend to deliberately steer clear of the main tourist attractions when doing my walkabouts, but this particular place is a personal favourite of mine as it has been around for a number of centuries ...Read more...

  My little jaunt to the ‘Smoke’ this week, took me to “Pickering Place” – a little alley that leads into to a public square, just off of St. James Street in the Pall Mall district. Now – there are more than 600 public squares in London, but “Pickering Place” is by far the smallest ...Read more...

This weeks ‘culture day’ took me (and the ‘GLW’ who accompanied me for the day) a little further afield than the City and its immediate surroundings, as it involved a jaunt down to south west London to visit ‘Chiswick House & Gardens’. Chiswick House itself was built between 1726 and 1729 and is one of ...Read more...