A number of these country cottages are in places that have been absorbed into today's London. This cottage for example was near Jack Straw’s Castle, Hampstead Heath.
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FANTASTIC! This has got to be HEARD!
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Such a good place to start with the history of London - listening to its sounds.
Click here to book your spring walk through Spitalfields Click here to book your walk through the City of London . On International Women’s Day, we remember the inspirational Helen Taylor-Thompson (1924-2020) who co-founded Europe’s first AIDS hospice at the Mildmay Hospital in Shoreditch.
The Pedway: Elevating London is a documentary on the post-war redevelopment in the City of London - focusing on the attempt to build an ambitious network of elevated walkways through the city. Featuring interviews with professor of town planning Michael Hebbert (UCL), architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, city planning officer Peter Wynne Rees and writer Nicholas Rudd-Jones (Pathways), the film explores why the 'Pedway' scheme was unsuccessful and captures the abandoned remains that, unknown to the public, still haunt the square mile.
Read the article that inspired the film - The City of London Walkway Experiment by Michael Hebbert http://goo.gl/EB8yjq
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With thanks to Messy Nessy Chic for sharing this , prior to the launch of Don’t Be A Tourist In London . Her discoveries are always interesting in every city she explores with the freshest and most unusual of eyes !
If you hang around The Mall in central London on the last Sunday of the month, you'll see the remarkable sight of several hundred English Civil War reenactors marching along the road.
DESPITE THE CHILL TODAY, I AM DELIGHTED TO REPORT THAT A BALMY 14 DEGREES IS FORECAST FOR MY WALK THROUGH SPITALFIELDS NEXT SATURDAY 11TH MARCH . CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR SPRING & SUMMER TOURS .
Tickets are available for my tour throughout September & October Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS . I am delighted to republish this review by Patrick Barkham from the August issue of The Oldie
Inspired by W S Graham’s poem, I took a walk through the nocturnal city, following in the poet’s footsteps with my camera to create this photoessay as an homage to Harold Burdekin...
But there is also a certain ambivalence to some images, such as those of Horseguards’ Parade and Covent Garden Market, since – as much as they record the vast numbers of people that participated in these elaborate human endeavours, they also reduce the hordes to mere ants and remove the...
The secrets behind the art on the mosaic house in Chiswick
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Thrown off a train at South Acton recently, due to a fire at Gunnersbury. Found this house , or rather the rear view, whilst lost in deepest suburbia, desperately looking for a bus, a tube, a way out. Stopped me in my tracks. Didn't realise it had such a fascinating history, didn't realise I was viewing it back to front. I had never been to South Acton before, apart from whizzing through on an overground train, on the way to Richmond. What a find. Can't wait to return to view the front and maybe get a glimpse of that mosaic-covered cab!
If you thought that Harvey Nichols or Topshop were the epitome of a London fashion department store, it’s time to re-introduce you to Big Biba, a fallen icon of the Swinging Sixties that redefined the High Street shopping experience...
It all started in 1964, when a small-time mail order busi
Click here to book your spring walk through Spitalfields Click here to book your walk through the City of London . Rupert Cole tells how he uncovered the story of John Doyle and John Valloine, protagonists of the ‘Bold Defiance,’ who advocated for the rights of journeymen weavers in the eighteenth...
Poet, playwright and novelist, Bernard Kops, died on 25th February aged ninety-seven years. Bernard Kops (1926-2024) . “It’s amazing I have lived so long, after all the drugs that I have taken in my life!
The Charterhouse is one of London’s best historical hidden gems. The site has an astonishingly rich story, going back to the area’s usage as a plague pit, then monastery, Tudor mansion, school and finally the almshouse that still occupies part of the site today. All of this fascinating, layered and also living history can be […]
Built in 1697 as a grand country house, 195 Mare Street is one of Hackney's oldest buildings. Home to the Elizabeth Fry Refuge from 1860-1913, the house housed thousands of young women recently released from prison.
“This tiny haven in the Thames proposes a further remove from the metropolis, a leafy dominion of artists’ cabins, rustic bungalows and old boatyards where, at the overgrown end of the only path, I came upon the entrance to Eel Pie Island Slipway. Here, where there are no roads, and enfolded on three sides by trees and tumbledown shacks, a hundred-year-old boatshed over-arches a hidden slipway attended by a crowded workshop filled with an accretion of old tools and maritime paraphernalia.
For the past thirty years, this magnificent old yard has been run by Ken Dwan, where twelve men work – shipwrights, platers, welders, marine engineers and marine electricians – on the slipway and in the workshop. “We have all the skills here, “ Ken informed me, “and the older ones are passing it onto the younger ones. Everybody learns on the job.” One of just four yards left on the Thames, Ken has his order book full for the next year, busy converting barges into houseboats, and maintaining and repairing those already in existence which, by law, have to be surveyed every five years.”
For obvious, and less obvious reasons, right now is a very good time to pay a visit to the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London, which can be found just off Oxford Street in central London.
At Selfridges, I told them I knew nothing about fashion, so I could not be fashion dresser. I said, ‘I’d like to do all the toy windows and all the gardening windows,’ because those were the things I thought I could be more creative with.
I was a war baby and my mother had a millinery business in Fulham. She was from Cannon St in Whitechapel and she opened her business at nineteen years old. She got married when she was twenty-one and she ran her business all through the war.
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A number of these country cottages are in places that have been absorbed into today's London. This cottage for example was near Jack Straw’s Castle, Hampstead Heath.