People

My London Shoes blog for this week had me focusing on a person, as opposed to a place or a location. Following my research on the person in question, my trek out to the ‘smoke ‘ended up being a bit of a surreal experience, because totally unexpectedly, the subject matter took me on a ‘journey’ ...Read more...

    My little jaunt to the ‘smoke’ for this week’s London Shoes website publication was short and sweet, but it touched on a subject matter that  relates to someone who has been voted as being one of the top 5 ‘Brits’ of all time – all because of the impact his particular achievement has ...Read more...

  My ‘London Shoes’ blog for this week took me to ‘Frith Street’ in deepest Soho, an area where I spent 4 happy years working for Barclays Bank in my late teens, from 1974 to 1978. However, throughout the time I worked there, although I knew about the actual ‘place’ of my visit, and had ...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...

The posting onto my London Shoes website this week, had me focussing on music and particularly song lyrics – a topic that I have always been most passionate about. The subject matter this week, is all about the life and times, and works of the legendary singer songwriter – (Sir) Ray Davies……who, in musical terms, ...Read more...

Although not technically a ‘culture’ day, this activity has been more of a ‘labour of love’ for me, covering the topic of music – and in particular ‘album’ covers that depict locations in London. It is a blog that I did a few months ago back in the late summer of 2017, but have only ...Read more...

      For this week’s ‘culture’ gig my entry onto my London Shoes website blog got me researching and exploring a particularly dark and macabre topic that is a fascinating part of London history that you wouldn’t necessarily find covered off in great detail, in any history book. The subject matter this week focussed ...Read more...

  This week, my London Shoes transported me back to a period in time when the ‘welfare /benefit state’ as we know it today, simply did not exist. My quest was to seek out the remains of “London’s Forgotten Workhouses” Throughout the past few centuries, if you were orphaned, elderly, sick, disabled or simply unable ...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...

What started as a nostalgic day out down memory lane, re-visiting the location where me and the good lady wife Angela first met some 43 years ago – also and unintentionally, ended up as a sort of ‘baby-blog’ in terms of a ‘culture’ day – as we made a return to Leytonstone, London E11, the ...Read more...