Street – Fixtures & Fittings

The most regular type of feedback London Shoes receives every week, is from people who express their surprise and concern that they have walked past a certain historic landmark that ‘Shoes’ has covered-off – hundreds/thousands of times in their lives, and yet never noticed something or never knew what it was or the history behind ...Read more...

For a bit of ‘post’ Xmas –‘walking off the booze & other excesses’ activity this week, London Shoes headed off to the Marble Arch and the beautiful Hyde Park area of the ‘Smoke’, on what was a gloriously sunny winter’s day – for the specific purpose of seeing a newly exhibited work of ‘sculptured’ art, ...Read more...

Sometimes us Londoner’s tend to take for granted the time, effort & finance that often goes in to making the ‘Smoke’, just that little bit more pleasant and enjoyable to wander around – especially at this festive time of year. London’s magnificent ‘Christmas Lights’ display is a seasonal tradition that began way back in 1954 ...Read more...

Last week ‘London Shoes’ ventured out south west to a specific area of the ‘smoke’ that has one of the weirdest of names…..”Pimlico”!!! The name Pimlico had always intrigued me as its always sounded a bit weird and mystical to me and so different from other place names. And I guess Pimlico is a bit ...Read more...

There are many categories listed within the London Shoes website, all of which  accommodate the many different aspects of the more ‘unusual’ stuff that London Shoes blogs. One such ‘Shoes’ category is entitled ‘Quirky’ and contains all the ‘off-the-wall’ and away from the ‘norm’ topics, published. The subject matter for this week’s venture down to the ‘Smoke’, ...Read more...

This week’s ‘Shoes’ activity was slightly different from the norm – as not only did it involve the usual touch of historic culture, it also incorporated yet another ‘first’ in the world of “London Shoes”. Although the weather on my chosen day out was really lousy, and certainly not conducive to wandering London’s streets – ...Read more...

It could be said that the London Shoes topic this week caused a bit of a ‘stink’. Undertaking this particular task had me thrashing the life out of me faithful old free-travel ‘60+Oyster Card’ and also caused me to wear away a bit more of the soles of my actual (London) ‘shoes’ – as I ...Read more...

The ‘London Shoes’ blog this week focused on a topic that has been on my ‘To Do List’ for some time now – but one that I was a little bit self-conscious of doing, for fear of it making me look like the Nerdiest Nerd of Geeksville. However, when researching the subject I was surprised ...Read more...

  This week’s blog for publication onto the ‘London Shoes’ website, in some ways falls into the category of ‘quirky’ – however, historically, the topic provides today’s world with a remarkable insight into an aspect of every day London life well over 200 years ago. This week’s blog is all about the “Link Boys & ...Read more...

  For my culture day out this week, my London Shoes had me seeking out a topic that I knew very little about, but a subject that played a massive part in the mechanics around how the City was policed, in times gone by……….the subject matter being “Police-Call Posts”!!!! I personally had no idea of ...Read more...