Streets

  The topic for this week’s publication onto the London Shoes website, Twitter feed and Facebook page, came about as a result of a conversation with my London cabbie mate Lee, whilst he was ferrying me through a very busy Kensington the other week – when Lee suddenly pointed out a particular landmark that London ...Read more...

One of the many interesting aspects of London is that it is crammed-full of all different styles, types and designs of architecture – whether it be old or new, commercial or residential. However, there is one specific unusual type of residential housing that has a wealth of history behind it, in terms of how it ...Read more...

This week, me old ‘London Shoes’ sort of felt like they were being called ‘up before the beak’ and having their ‘collar felt’. The London Shoes blog published this week, goes under the title of “Legal London” – and focusses on 3 specific locations and the stacks of history behind them, and what these locations ...Read more...

  This week “London Shoes” went in search of a particular area of central London situated between Tottenham Court Road tube station in the north, and Covent Garden tube station in the south – an area that I should have already been familiar with, bearing in mind that in the late 1970’s I spent 4 ...Read more...

Last week’s London Shoes jaunt to the ‘smoke’ took me out west to a district of London that has always intrigued me, probably because of its bohemian and hippie notoriety when I was an impressionable teenager in the late 1960’s & early 70’s. For this trip out I was privileged to be accompanied by my ...Read more...

A ‘Video Blog’ of:-   Southwark Bridge – ‘Seedy’ Southwark & it’s nearby historic landmarks

Being a Londoner at this particular time of year, there is always a pull on the old conscience, to take a trip ‘up west’ to see first-hand, the traditional annual Christmas Lights displayed on Oxford Street, Regent Street, South Moulton Street, and these days, many other streets in the surrounding area – a seasonal tradition ...Read more...

  The subject matter for this week’s publication on to the ‘London Shoes’ website, is to be the first of what will be a series of blogs on the topic of London’s “Historic & Notorious Alleys & Passages” To kick-start this series I made my way down to the Spitalfields/Aldgate/Whitechapel districts of my good old ...Read more...

  This week’s venture out for the London Shoes website posting, was short & sweet, but one that provides a typical example of the more unusual and quirky historic landmarks scattered across this metropolis. The subject matter is all about the “fake houses” of Leinster Gardens, Bayswater W2 – and an interesting little topic it ...Read more...

A ‘Video Blog’ of:- The history of Narrow Street and Limehouse – London E14