WW2

Last week London Shoes was fortunate enough to get hold of a couple of tickets to a unique sort of event being held at what is probably London’s most historic site and most popular tourist attraction – a location that is immediately recognised throughout the globe. The event was only short lived, as it was ...Read more...

The other day my London Shoes took a bit of a different approach and headed off to a place, that is technically, not London – but was once looked up as being the Londoners ‘sea-side playground’ – especially East Londoners – and to be fair, its airport’s official title is prefixed with the word ‘London’!!! So ...Read more...

This week my London Shoes set off for a day out, under dark, dismal, miserable and rainy London skies – in search of a specific subject matter, that certainly fulfils the Shoes’ mantra of highlighting London’s lesser known and more unusual aspects of its history. This particular subject matter can be found spread across a ...Read more...

On Remembrance Sunday 2020 – London Shoes experienced a ‘first’, when my London cabbie mate Lee, asked me if I wanted to accompany him into London to ‘be there’ for the occasion. This year’s Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph was a unique occasion, for 2 reasons:- 1. 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the ...Read more...

For this week’s publication onto its website/facebook & twitter feeds, London Shoes continued to adhere to the Covid19 lockdown doctrine of non-essential travel, by selecting a ‘local’ subject matter of historic interest, to trek out to and explore. Just one & a bit miles down the road from London Shoes home base in Romford, is ...Read more...

This week ‘London Shoes’ looked back to the latter stages of WW2 and the devastating impact that one specific aspect of enemy attack had on the lives of so many Londoners. This week’s publication onto the ‘London Shoes’ Website-FB & Twitter portals is entitled “V2 Rocket attacks on London – the ‘first the worst & ...Read more...

  Most Londoner’s and visitors to London will be aware of the HMS Belfast moored just off the Southbank between Tower Bridge & London Bridge – but today of all days, it is worth acknowledging and appreciating the massive and crucial part this grand old ship played in the D-Day Landing operation – 75 years ...Read more...

The ‘Royal Air Force’ (e.g.RAF) was formed in April 1918, at the end of the First World War – by the merging the ‘Royal Flying Corp’ and the ‘Royal Naval Air Service’. Because the merger of both the military and naval operations in the new service, many of the titles of officers were deliberately chosen ...Read more...