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Twixmas (as it’s apparently known. Or twixtmas, the interweb doesn’t seem too sure which yet…). A strange sort of week, isn’t it? A sort of no-mans land between the Xmas excess and the return to the toil after the New Year. So, if you find yourself with encroaching cabin fever, or with a house full…
Read moreYou may recall the fairly recent celebrations for the 150th anniversary of World’s first Underground railway which opened in 1863 and ran from Paddington to Farringdon. But that was a steam railway and it took nearly another 30 years before electricity was used to power trains. Friday 18 December 2015 marks the 125th anniversary of…
Read moreDespite the march of modern development in north Clerkenwell, Jiff Bayliss manages to unveil many late Georgian architectural gems on his walk Lubetkin, Lenin and Bevin Court, which explores the impact of the Bolshevik modernist architect, Berthold Lubetkin on the area. But there is also an intriguing tale of two disappearing busts is to be revealed and untangled. Jiff…
Read moreRichard Watkins is raising money for The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields by donating the proceeds of his walk A Trafalgar Square Travesty to this fine charity who do fantastic work helping London’s homeless find their feet. As a little teaser, he tells us about just one of the less well-known aspects of one of the…
Read moreAfter his recent excursion down the Clapham South Deep Level Shelter, Paul Surma has once more been exploring secret underground London for us. This time, he took a tour of one of Churchill’s many secret underground facilities during WW2, the former Down Street Underground station. Fortunately for us, he also took his camera (click on…
Read moreWith Spectre, the latest Bond adventure hitting our screens recently, Michael Duncan explores the story that links one of Fleming’s most famous villains with a couple of famous London Tower blocks and an architecturally-significant Hampstead terrace. Like most great writers, Ian Fleming took inspiration for his fictional characters from real life. He came upon the name James Bond from reading a book on…
Read moreSean Patterson has been running his highly acclaimed walk “Deptford. The Charles Booth Poverty Map” for a number of years. But now he is a Deptford local. Check here for the date of the next walk. Six years ago I decided to do an MA in London Studies at Queen Mary and Westfield and became particularly…
Read moreAs Friday 13th hoves into view (yes, 13th November falls on a Friday this year) some of our guides have hand-picked some appropriately themed walks for that most onerous of dates. As a little warm-up, Paul Surma (who will be running his Ghost. Ghouls and Graveyards walks on that day) delves into the origins of the superstition that this…
Read moreLiterary Footprints – our festival of walks celebrating London books and authors ran during October, and attracted a record number of people on the walks. We had some great feedback from the people who came, and people who went on multiple walks say they loved visiting a place more than once and hearing the different…
Read moreTina Baxter talks about one of the women she features on her Women Through Time Part II walk on Saturday 31st October. Photography was an unusual direction for a woman to take in the mid-19th century, but this did not deter Christina Broom. In May 1903, at the age of 40, she borrowed a plate…
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