People

  ‘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...

The subject matter for this week’s publication onto the London Shoes website – was influenced by a particular topic that made the national news last week – not just here in the UK, but also on the other side of the world. One of the news headlines from last week covered an archeological discovery in ...Read more...

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...