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To celebrate our forthcoming Bleeding London evening on 31st October, here is another of our favourite London streets. This time Robin Rowles recommends Poppin’s Court running north of Fleet Street. Originally Poppinjaye Alley. The Popinjay was the symbol of the Abbots of Chichester and the Hostel of the Abbot and Convent of Chichester was here (or…
Read moreTo celebrate our forthcoming Bleeding London evening on 31st October, here is another of our favourite London streets. This time Jen Pedler and Joanna Moncrieff nominate Grotto Passage Grotto Passage – off Paddington Street, Marylebone named after John Castles a shell designer/entrepreneur who exhibited and sold his creations (1737 until his death in 1757) from…
Read moreTo celebrate our forthcoming Bleeding London evening on 31st October, heres another of our favourite London streets. This time Neil Sinclair chooses the atmospheric Shad Thames Shad Thames in Bermondsey takes its name from a church called St John at Thames which stood on the site until 1836. The church in turn was built upon…
Read moreContinuing our series on the legacy of Kings and Queens in London – this time King Stephen and the woman who he seized the throne from – Matilda We talked about Henry I‘s death from eating lamphrey eels last time. His daughter Matilda was his formal heir. At the Christmas court of 1126 Henry required…
Read moreOn 31st October Footprints of London is hosting an event called Bleeding London – a joint event with the Royal Photographic Society. The event, part of the Literary Footprints festival combines readings from the 1997 Whitbread short-listed novel, Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson with a preview of some of the photographs from the most ambitious…
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