This is a blog that is all about a good old friend of mine ‘Derek Sparrow’. In this blog Derek tells us all about his life-story from his birth in 1939 right up until 1973, when I first met Derek – and is titled – “The real Del Boy’s London” Hello there – let me
On the evening of Weds 11th March 2020, London Shoes ventured off to what was once one of London’s most iconic music & art venues, particularly throughout the 1960’s and into the 70’s – the legendary ‘Roundhouse’ at Chalk Farm–London NW3. The Roundhouse building wasn’t always a music venue – when it was first opened
Friday was the only decent day of weather here in the ‘Smoke’ last week, and so ‘London Shoes’ took advantage of the sunshine and ventured off ‘up-west’ to Leicester Square, to check out a brand new London attraction, which was only introduced a week ago. Then following that – for the customary ‘cheeky’ beer, ‘Shoes’
Last week was quite a unique one for ‘London Shoes’, when I received an invitation from 2 highly acclaimed ‘London Walking Tour’ guides, asking me if I would like to accompany them on a ‘new’ tour they’ve designed – as they would value my feedback of the tour, its content and its delivery – before
Last week on a bitterly cold and windy day, but a beautifully sunny one –‘London Shoes’ took up the opportunity to attend another ‘live’ music event – that was held at an unusual and certainly unique venue – a place that I had never visited or even heard about before…… the ‘Tereza-Joanne’!!! The gig itself
Last Saturday (8th Feb 2020) saw a ‘first’ for my ‘London Shoes’ – as it was the very first time I had ever undertaken a blog on a football club. The subject matter was East London’s “Leyton Orient FC”. Another ‘first’ fore this particular blog, was that I had 3 people accompanying me for the
This week’s London Shoes trek out focussed on one of its favourite blog topics – ‘live’ music. As with a number of my previously published music related blogs, this week’s subject matter originates from my association with ‘Gentleman’ George Double, my old drum tutor from my days when I was working at Barclays in Mare
Those of you with a ‘sweet tooth’ may enjoy this particular London Shoes topic – a topic which is stirring and sometimes a bit lumpy. This week’s London Shoes publication is about a particular factory that has been churning out its product for over 140 years, and is still very much doing so to this
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
This week ‘London Shoes’ looked back to the latter stages of WW2 and the devastating impact that one specific aspect of enemy attack had on the lives of so many Londoners. This week’s publication onto the ‘London Shoes’ Website-FB & Twitter portals is entitled “V2 Rocket attacks on London – the ‘first the worst &
