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This is a blog that is all about a good old friend of mine ‘Derek Sparrow’. In this blog Derek tells us all about his life-story from his birth in 1939 right up until 1973, when I first met Derek – and is titled – “The real Del Boy’s London”  Hello there – let me ...Read more...

Last Sunday, London Shoes made a welcome return to one of its favourite topics….’live’ music – and I was extremely privileged to be included on the guest-list of the fantastic ‘Chris Ingham Quartet’ for their sell-out gig at the legendary world famous “Ronnie Scott’s-Jazz Club” in Frith Street-Soho-LondonW1. The reason I was lucky enough to ...Read more...

The topic for this week’s ‘London Shoes’ publication on its Website, FB & Twitter portals, is not about a building or a location – it’s simply all about a humble, ordinary Londoner, whose work has touched millions upon millions of people throughout the years and will most probably continue to do so for future generations. ...Read more...

A slight deviation of subject matter this week saw ‘London Shoes’ venture into the sporting world, to focus on the topic of ‘Boxing’. This particular blog started life as being just about famous ‘east-end’ boxing legends – but as my research on the topic progressed, I expanded the subject matter to include some of the ...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...

  This week’s ‘London Shoes’ trek out, was a little bit different from the ‘norm’ – as it was all about having ‘lunch’ at an excusive world renowned private members club, deep in the heart of London’s Soho district – a far cry from the ‘Egg, Bacon, Beans & a Fried Slice’ that London Shoes ...Read more...

  ‘Chaim Reuben Weintrop’ (aka Bud Flanagan) was born in October 1896 at no.12 Hanbury Street in the Spitalfields district of Whitechapel, deep in the heart of London’s east-end. His parents Wolf & Yetta Weintrop fled to England following the persecution of Jews in their native Poland. They had paid good money to escape to ...Read more...

This week’s ‘London Shoes’ publication comes in 2 parts. The first part begins on the ‘Becontree Estate’ in Dagenham, and the second part ends in an old converted granary barn in the rural wilds of Cambridgeshire. The theme of this blog focusses on a specific aspect of the subject matters life – and this person ...Read more...

I have always been intrigued when reading stories about incidents where ‘lost’ music tapes of top recording artists, are discovered collecting dust in someone’s loft or attic at some obscure location. Well –“London Shoes” has had its own experience of this scenario this week, when a never published ‘lost’ blog was discovered whilst conducting a ...Read more...

  This week’s ‘London Shoes’ topic was a bit special for me, as the visit in question enabled me to tick-off one of the “must do” activities on my personal ‘bucket-list’. Also – it just so happened that I visited the subject matter in question at a special time in its history…its 60th anniversary year ...Read more...