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Earlier this year we listed our favourite London Secret Gardens. Now Neil Sinclair has news of another garden project on an interesting site It once housed enough wine, spirits and provisions to entertain a newly-married king and keep the powerful and wealthy Bishop of Winchester and his guests fed and watered for weeks But…
Read moreRob Smith looks at the true story behind some of the characters and locations in the TV series Peaky Blinders. Find out more on The Real London of Peaky Blinders walking tour which he runs on various days throughout the year, or you can book to it with a few friends at a time that suits…
Read moreA big thanks to all who came on our Literary Footprints Festival events in October. Here are a few photos from the walks Dave had this great comment from someone who came on the walk “It always astounds me how much information you and your fellow guides have about our wonderful city and you were…
Read moreAn update from Mark Rowland on the London Symphony film project: I’m delighted to report that The London Symphony film project met its crowd funding target (sailed past it, in fact) and the great news is that the film is now going to be made, so well done everyone who got involved either through making a funding pledge or promoting…
Read moreFootprints of London Guide Richard Watkins was interviewed by Anne Diamond for BBC Radio Berkshire Yesterday to talk about the 1834 Great Fire of Westminster that destroyed the Houses of Parliament. There were worrying parallels with a recent report that said that the current parliament building was at risk from fire. Richard and Stephen…
Read moreMayfair was Ian Fleming’s playground. He was born here in 1908 in a house strangely unmarked by a blue plaque. And it was here where he drank and gambled in his clubs. His father was an MP who was killed in the First World War, his grandfather was Robert Fleming the banker who gave…
Read moreTo celebrate our Literary Footprints finale on Friday 31st October, the Footprints of London Guides have chosen their favourite London streets. Here’s what Neil Sinclair says about Hanging Sword Alley If you feel any sense of foreboding or trepidation walking along Hanging Sword Alley, the passageway between Whitefriars Street and Salisbury Court off Fleet…
Read moreHave you ever wondered what it would be like to walk every street in the London A-Z? – A feat none of us Footprint guides has yet accomplished! In Geoff Nicholson’s 1997 Whitbread shortlisted novel Bleeding London that’s what jaded tour guide Stuart London sets out to do, crossing them out in the A-Z as…
Read moreTina Baxter finds some amazing connections between Chaucer and the modern City 25th October 2014 – Anniversary of Geoffrey Chaucer’s death Geoffrey Chaucer died on 25th October 1400 and was buried in Westminster Cathedral in a place now known as ‘Poet’s Corner’, he was the first great literary hero to be enshrined on that spot….
Read moreAlan Fortune poses some questions answered in his Literary Soho walk Which literary figure is this street in Soho named after? She was to have a great influence on Jane Austen. What connection does the New Loon Moon Supermarket have with Britain’s literary heritage? Which writer of both detective stories and theological books has…
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