Crime & Punishment

The first cab off the London Shoes rank for 2026 – on the face of it, is just a straight forward simple topic from the popular Shoes theme of London’s Mews Streets & Houses. However……in typical Shoes fashion, not all is as it may seem – because lurking in the background shadows of this particular ...Read more...

London Shoes followers may recall a few weeks ago I published a blog article that was all about ‘Ruth Ellis’ who, in 1955 – was the last woman in the Britain to be executed by hanging. The blog publication was titled “Ruth Ellis-the last woman to hang in Britain-her life & her London”. It was ...Read more...

Of the hundreds of blog articles I’ve published on my London Shoes website, this particular one, without a doubt, has taken the longest time to research/draft and eventually publish. It actually started life a few months ago, when the subject matter was a specific London pub situated in Hampstead-London NW3 – that had a bit ...Read more...

This week’s London Shoes blog was an interesting and extremely enjoyable one to do. Just when I think there’s nothing ‘new’ out there that could metaphorically blow my socks off – totally out of the blue, I stumble upon something or some topic that completely stops me in my tracks – a subject matter that ...Read more...

So  – the final installment of London Shoes “Brixton Trilogy” of blogs – focuses on a historic site and building – located just down the road from its famous Windmill…………“BRIXTON PRISON”. Brixton Prison was opened in 1820 – when it was known as the “Surrey House of Correction” – because at that time Brixton was ...Read more...

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 ...Read more...

      For this week’s ‘culture’ gig my entry onto my London Shoes website blog got me researching and exploring a particularly dark and macabre topic that is a fascinating part of London history that you wouldn’t necessarily find covered off in great detail, in any history book. The subject matter this week focussed ...Read more...

  For my culture day out this week, my London Shoes had me seeking out a topic that I knew very little about, but a subject that played a massive part in the mechanics around how the City was policed, in times gone by……….the subject matter being “Police-Call Posts”!!!! I personally had no idea of ...Read more...

  My ‘culture’ activity this week focussed on a singular historic event in London, which had an impact and knock-on effect on those times, which in some respects draws some parallels to the way things are today – and the topic is the ‘Siege of Sidney Street’. Today, Sidney Street in Stepney E1 is just ...Read more...

  My ‘blogging’ day out this week has a rather macabre and sinister theme to it – however the topic focusses on an important cultural,social and extremely interesting aspect of London’s history. The theme is London’s most notorious ‘Public Execution Sites’, and my research has taken me to the following historic locations:- Elms * Tyburn ...Read more...