Pubs

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...

This week ‘London Shoes’ made a welcomed return to the topic of ‘live-music’ – and to an event that required a trek out to a basement jazz venue in deepest darkest Chelsea. The venue for this ‘gig’ was the extremely popular and charismatic “606 Club” in Lots Road–Chelsea-London SW11, and the reason for journeying all ...Read more...

In today’s world we are all unfortunately fully aware of the influence the drug culture and drug addiction has on society as a whole, and the social issues it creates around us. However, none of this stuff is ‘new’ as history tells us that back in London some 300 years ago, there was an even ...Read more...

  Two weeks ago ‘London Shoes’ published a music related blog on ‘Jazz at the Movies’ that was performed at “The ‘Other’ Palace Theatre” – and a bit like when you’re waiting at a bus stop, it just so happened that, (totally unplanned), 2 ‘music’ related blog opportunities have cropped-up alongside each other. Last Saturday, ...Read more...

For the second ‘London Shoes’ escapade of 2019 – the ‘shoes’ took me ‘darn-sarf’ of the River Thames to the district with the strange named of “Vauxhall”. For this jaunt I had the pleasure of being accompanied by my old mate Les Bannell – who I first met way back in 1974, some 45 years ...Read more...

  The subject matter for this week’s publication on to the ‘London Shoes’ website, is to be the first of what will be a series of blogs on the topic of London’s “Historic & Notorious Alleys & Passages” To kick-start this series I made my way down to the Spitalfields/Aldgate/Whitechapel districts of my good old ...Read more...

  My time out in the hot & humid ‘smoke’ this week allowed me time to explore a place that I’ve only recently been become aware of, and have never visited before – even though I had, in the past, attended several meetings in the actual area, when working for Barclays Bank – and in ...Read more...

      For my culture day out this week, the location was somewhere I had always wanted to visit, and a place where I could make good use of my English Heritage ‘Pensioners’ Membership card (however, it turned out in the end that I didn’t actually need them to gain admission). So – this ...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...

For my planned ‘culture’ day out this week I was delighted to be accompanied by 3 old boys that I used to work with in my last role at Barclays……I say ‘old boys’ – they are actually all younger than me 🙂 So, myself, Tony Gowers, Andy Bayes and David Wright set out to discover ...Read more...