Pubs

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...

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...

“THE FRENCH HOUSE” 49 Dean Street – London W1 ************************* Pubs have never been a main theme for my London Shoes blog topic criteria – even though Shoes followers will be fully aware that I always attempt to conclude each blog publication with a visit to a pub in close proximity to the subject matter ...Read more...

Last week, under miserable dark damp gloomy and bitterly cold London skies – my London Shoes ventured over to a north western area of London – for the specific purpose of visiting THE actual SWISS COTTAGE. On Saturday 1st February 2025 ‘last orders’ were called for the very last time at the “Ye Old Swiss ...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 week’s blog article is a little ‘off piste’ in terms of the London Shoes doctrine, as it could be argued that the subject matter is not actually ‘historic’ – although tenuously, I think it is, as historically, it’s the first of its kind in London (& the UK for that matter). However, it does ...Read more...

Here’s another interesting London pub, with a fascinating backstory – that my London Shoes stumbled upon last week (not stumbled out of) – that I felt warranted its own blog article. Down Kingsway, within the old narrow lanes and streets round the back of Holborn tube station – at the junction of Little Turnstile and Gate ...Read more...

Followers of London Shoes will know that every blog visit concludes with a drink or two at a pub close to the primary subject matter location – preferably a pub with a little bit of history or with an interesting backstory to it. Every once in a while, ‘Shoes’ stumbles upon a pub so impressive, ...Read more...

The other day London Shoes ventured off to the posh St. James district of the ‘Smoke’ for the purpose of seeking out and exploring a particular courtyard that’s tucked away in Duke Street-St. James – not far from Green Park tube station. The specific reason I decided to visit this courtyard location was because it’s ...Read more...

This week’s ‘London Shoes’ publication concerns a topic I knocked-out a few weeks back now – but it has been stored away in the Shoes ‘vaults’ and I completely forgot about it!!! Anyway – as Shoes followers will already be aware – I don’t normally ‘do’ well known topics of London’s history – but because ...Read more...