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Rhona Levene makes the case for architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon After devastation of the Cripplegate area of the City of London in WW2 blitz the Corporation recognised the urgent need for housing and a competition was set up in 1952 for what became the Golden Lane Estate. Of the 178 entries it was won…
Read moreJen Pedler talks about her new walk that ties in with the Royal Photographic Society exhibition Bleeding London See the pictures, walk the walk In Geoff Nicholson’s 1997 Whitbread nominated novel Bleeding London, jaded tour guide Stuart London sets out to walk every street in the A-Z. The novel inspired the London Region of…
Read moreFIRST TUESDAY WALKS Starting in July, four Footprints guides (Jen Pedler, Joanna Moncrieff, Rhona Levene and Stephen Benton) are running 45 minute circular lunchtime walks in Victoria on the first Tuesday of each month. They all start at 1.10pm from the piazza in front of Westminster Cathedral and cost £5 (£4 concession) each. There are…
Read moreRob Smith reveals that one of London’s grimiest industrial streets was the site of one of Britain’s earliest airfields and possibly visited by the Wright Brothers Chequers Lane near Dagenham Dock is typical of the curious landscape of this part of London – where wild flowers grow amidst piles of rubbish, and lorries blow up…
Read moreStarting a new series I which the Footprints of London Guides nominate architects who have defined the look of London. To start Neil Sinclair nominates Norman Foster. “If it’s late 20th and early 21st century buildings and an undeniably dramatic impact on the London skyline, then my nomination is Norman Foster. What a roll-call of…
Read moreThe Footprints of London guides love to point out windows on our walks – some for looking through, some for looking at, sme that are not even real windows – here are ten of our favourite London windows 1 The East Window in St Martin’s in the Fields Stephen Benton’s choice is “The East Window…
Read moreMichael Duncan talks about Anderson & Sheppard – one of the tailors in his walk Suited and Booted – Savile Row and the Birth of British Style on 9th June Tom Ford is quoted as saying that Anderson and Sheppard is the best tailor in the world. And who would dare dispute a man of such…
Read morePaul Surma talks about Henry James Greathead one of the people he features in his new walk Lifeblood of the City – Public Transport in London on Saturday 27th June at 2pm and 5.30pm Henry James Greathead is the ‘father of the tube’, a South African engineer that, through his invention: the Greathead Shield, saw that…
Read moreContinuing our series about the legacy of British monarchs on London – this time King John. You can find out more about the events leading up to Magna Carta in Tina’s walk The Road to Runnymede on June 15th at 2pm Last time we heard how Richard I was not one of the greatest lovers…
Read moreJen Pedler talks about the 1928 flood which features in her ‘Three Bridges, Two Palaces and One River’ walk on Sunday 31st May. When Whistler painted his mural The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats in the restaurant of the Tate (Britain) he anticipated that it would have to resist the rough and tumble of…
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