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To 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…
Read moreRob Smith reviews the Virginia Woolf: Art Life and Vision exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery There are writers who set books in London and there are writers who’s work is driven by London. Virginia Woolf falls into the latter category, she felt it harder to work away from the streets of London. As well as…
Read moreThe Leadenhall Building, better known as the Cheesegrater opened its new undercroft area today, and it includes an exhibition about this dramatic addition to the City skyline. The Richard Rogers designed building has some interesting features, designed to keep the cost of running the building down. Instead of a solid concrete core to hang the…
Read moreWhat’s your favourite London statue? There are hundreds of major outdoor works in London. Footprints of London’s very own Hazel spoke with Robert Elms from BBC London 94.9FM about her favourite statues. Listen to the programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02494gc Hazel is on between 32:35-37:49 Sir Thomas More is known as a Tudor Scholar & Statesman. His statue sits…
Read moreHere’s another fantastic staircase which we couldn’t feature in our recent top 10 as we didn’t have a photo at the time. Luckily the National Trust have supplied us with this photo of the beautiful staircase at 2 Willow Road. The house was the home of architect Erno Goldfinger and the hub of an amazing…
Read moreRobin has news of three great Sherlock Holmes walks you can join during this October’s Literary Footprints Saturday 18th October 11am Sherlock Holmes and the Red-Headed League led by Robin Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are an immortal pleasure. By joining your friendly guide Robin, we’ll recreate the thrilling adventure of ‘The Red-Headed League’ on foot,…
Read moreContinuing our series looking at the legacy of British Kings and Queens. This time Henry I, otherwise known as Henri Beauclerc After the demise of William II in the New Forest, his younger brother Henry wasted no time in claiming the throne, being crowned in Winchester a few days afterwards. With his older brother Robert…
Read moreIf your familiar with the London weather you’ll realize that a sundial is perhaps not the most obvious way of telling the time here. That hasn’t stopped sundials being built though, and you can find them all over London. There’s something really nice about measuring the passing of time by measuring the sun moving across…
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