Art

Understandably, London has experienced and witnessed a happy positive buzz around the place, throughout the H.M. Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee celebrations – and a nice change it made too. One of the lesser known attractions, to honour the Queen throughout her ‘Platty Joobs’ (‘street’ for Platinum Jubilee) – involves the installation of ‘19’ massive ...Read more...

Regular followers of London Shoes will know that its blogs are not always exclusive to London’s unusual/lesser known historic landmarks – my collection of blogs also identifies and highlights lesser known museums and other places of interest. Last week ‘Shoes’ ventured out to visit one such location….the “Museum of Youth Culture” that has recently been ...Read more...

If you happen to find yourself ‘up west’ at any time throughout the next few weeks, particularly around the Piccadilly district – you might think that you’re in the wildest Serengeti, as where ever you turn you will feel that you are being stalked by a pride of Lions – but these particular beasts are ...Read more...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of an iconic album that has always remained in the top 100 albums of all time. The record in question is the triple album released by ex-Beatle “George Harrison” entitled “All Things Must Pass”. The album tracks were recorded throughout early 1970 at the EMI Studios-Abbey ...Read more...

One of my favourite London born musicians is Ronnie Wood – guitarist with the legendary band The Rolling Stones. In my opinion Ronnie Wood is one of Britain’s most underrated rock guitarists – I’ve personally loved his work from his days with the Faces (just listen to his playing on their 1971 album “A nod’s ...Read more...

Over the centuries London has often witnessed some strange sights on its streets, but up there with the weirdest and most unusual, must be the herd of Elephants that descended on the capital throughout mid-May to the 23rd July. On the 14th May, a herd of 100 elephant sculptures took up residence in London’s Royal ...Read more...

With the UK Government’s Covid19 current ‘lockdown’ restrictions, rules and regulations still in place, and ‘non-essential’ travel still (quite rightly) not being encouraged – London Shoes is unfortunately still unable to get out there ‘on-the-road’ to undertake and produce any new topic material for 2021.  However – as with the previous and initial Shoes post for ...Read more...

With the UK Government’s Covid19 current restrictions, rules and regulations in place –  ‘non-essential’ travel is not encouraged – as a result, London Shoes is unable to get out ‘on-the-road’ to start this new year of 2021, with a brand new blog topic. However – all is not lost, as just before the ‘lockdown’ instigated ...Read more...

During these strange Covid19 lockdown times, London Shoes has clearly had to curtail its weekly jaunts out to the ‘Smoke’ for obvious reasons. Fortunately ‘Shoes’ has still been able to continue posting material regularly on to its website–facebook & twitter portals, by utilising material in storage, but not yet published. This specific article is a ...Read more...

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’ ...Read more...