Monthly Archives: August 2018

  Today, Epping Station is the last stop on the eastbound section of the TfL Central Line tube, but years ago there was a branch line that went on to North Weald-Blake Hall and then Ongar stations. Back in the early days of steam rail travel, the Great Eastern Railway operated a network of lines ...Read more...

  This week’s entry onto my London Shoes website also had a little touch of nostalgia in it for me – for not only was the subject matter a place that I’ve always wanted to visit and learn more about – the venue also enabled me to recollect and catch-up with 2 aspects from my ...Read more...

    When I started the London Shoes website, my intention was to publish material concerning London’s lesser known, and more unusual aspects of its history – which I felt people might find interesting, particularly Londoners like me who spent a lifetime walking past landmarks and places, without even knowing they were there and totally ...Read more...

My entry published onto the London Shoes (londonshoes.blog) website this week, involved me adopting a slightly different approach, in terms of the subject matter – as the topic focusses on a very old children’s ‘nursery rhyme’, that has been sung by children in London, and no doubt elsewhere, for hundreds of years……. namely “Oranges & ...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...

  Following a break for a couple of weeks, due to holiday commitments etc – it was good to get back ‘on the road’ again this week and return to publishing stuff on the ‘London Shoes’ website. This week’s topic focused on a building that I have passed by many hundreds of times during my ...Read more...