Lost Music Venues

A week or so back, my London Shoes were in the Finsbury Park district of North London, putting together a blog article (not this one) and whilst down there I just had to seek out a historic music venue that once operated there – a place where the young teenage me, saw loads of the ...Read more...

Here’s another in the Shoes’ current sequence of short ‘n sweet blog postings – and its one of those that’s slightly different from the norm. Followers of my ‘London Shoes’ stuff will be fully aware that I always attempt to end each Shoes’ blog publication with a visit to a pub – either one nearby ...Read more...

This London Shoes blog is a proper long’un – so beware. A few weeks prior to the Christmas period I received an email via my London Shoes website – it was from a young lady (Jaya) who referred to a couple of blogs she had read that were published on my London Shoes website. She ...Read more...

This is just a quick short & sweet ‘Shoes’ blog that I hadn’t initially planned to publish, as I had already given the subject matter a ‘light touch’ within the content of a recently published blog article (ie Mason’s Yard). However – because the subject matter in question sat nicely within the existing ‘Shoes’ category ...Read more...

When I started my London Shoes stuff, over 6yrs ago now – there were a number of locations/places/sites scattered around London that I had never visited before, and upon retirement, I now had the opportunity to do so. One particular place was always high on my ‘to do list’ and although it’s taken me 6yrs ...Read more...

One of the very first blogs my London Shoes published, way back in  May 2017– was all about  “David Bowie’s – London”  Bowie, being one of my music idols, had only passed away almost a year to the day, when I published this blog that I had dedicated to him, and the London he had ...Read more...

So – following an absence of some 7 weeks due to a health issue & its treatment, London Shoes felt sufficiently recovered last week, to adopt a slow and measured approach to hopefully getting back on-the-road again, to do what ‘Shoes’ does best – eg the blogging of some of the more unusual and lesser ...Read more...

The first official London Shoes trek out for this year, was conducted in full compliance of the current Covid restrictions – as the subject matter is a ‘local’ topic which I was able to walk too, as part of my daily exercise routine – and what a nostalgic & beautifully sunny day it was. I ...Read more...

This week’s London Shoes blog was undertaken the day before the 2nd Covid19 lockdown restrictions were implemented – so following this publication, there will be a brief lull in weekly blog publications for a few weeks whilst ‘Shoes’ observe the Governments non-essential travel advice – but hopefully I shall be able to knock a few ...Read more...

This week ‘London Shoes’ didn’t have to travel too far to reach its subject matter location – just a short 15mins train journey from my home base to East Ham–London E12. The topic in question represents Part 4 of the London Shoes series entitled “London’s-Lost Music Venues” and takes a look at a place that ...Read more...