Monthly Archives: December 2020
End of Year 2020-Review – looking back at ‘London Shoe’s’ activities throughout 2020
At the end of any year, it’s often customary to take a look back of where you’ve come from and where you’ve got to – and my little ‘London Shoes’ initiative is no exception to that approach. It goes without saying that 2020 has most probably been the most challenging year ever for everyone – ...Read more...
*London Street Art-Pt 1 the “Mile End-Mural”
For last week’s jaunt out, London Shoes travelled to the Whitechapel/Mile End district deep in the heart of London’s east-end. It’s an area of London that I know well and have very fond memories of, having worked at the Barclays Bank-Whitechapel branch for a couple of years in the late 1980’s – a branch with ...Read more...
* The “Upminster Windmill” – its renovation and the lifting & fitting of its 4 newly restored ‘Sails’
Not essential travel I know, but this week London Shoes decided to take a short 10min bus ride from its Romford base to the neighbouring town of Upminster, for the purpose of witnessing a unique event, that you certainly don’t see happen everyday on a street of a London borough. The town of Upminster is ...Read more...