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
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
The ‘Royal Air Force’ (e.g.RAF) was formed in April 1918, at the end of the First World War – by the merging the ‘Royal Flying Corp’ and the ‘Royal Naval Air Service’. Because the merger of both the military and naval operations in the new service, many of the titles of officers were deliberately chosen
My little jaunt to the ‘smoke’ for this week’s London Shoes website publication was short and sweet, but it touched on a subject matter that relates to someone who has been voted as being one of the top 5 ‘Brits’ of all time – all because of the impact his particular achievement has
My ‘London Shoes’ blog for this week took me to ‘Frith Street’ in deepest Soho, an area where I spent 4 happy years working for Barclays Bank in my late teens, from 1974 to 1978. However, throughout the time I worked there, although I knew about the actual ‘place’ of my visit, and had
Cheyne Walk (pronounced ‘Chainee’) is a historic, unique and extremely prestigious road located on the northern bank of the River Thames in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. For nearly 300 hundred years, the houses, mansions and flats contained within this relatively small road, have been home to a ridiculous number of historically
It’s weird how you think you know a place and particularly its history very well, and yet it turns out that you actually know very little. You can pass by something many times and yet not notice or be aware of the relevance of its past. Well – my little jaunt out to the
My little trek out this week, took me to a place that I had actually visited a couple of times before, but many years ago, back in my youth. Since then it has gone through a number of considerable transformations, and is today one of London’s lesser known, but still remarkable landmark. The
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
My little excursion out this week for publication on to the London Shoes website – was all about a place that I personally went to a couple of times, as a teenager in the early 1970’s – but my visits were nothing to do with what the building itself was originally designed for. My
