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Day 5 and we’re taking you to church, but one with an unusual feature. When is a church door not a door? When it’s been bricked in, but where and why? Knowing the area covered by the infamous Mr Harris’s List will at least lead you to the correct part of town. Click the pic…
Read moreDay 4 and a shout out to London’s wonderful and brave emergency services, but do you know where London’s first ambulance station was? Your clue is that it is in an area more renowned for its literary than its medical connections. This is its door, but where is it? Click the pic to reveal the…
Read moreDay three and we’re heading east for our next door. Looks like it’s built to protect something, doesn’t it? That is because in the nineteenth century some of the greatest treasures of the Orient were to be found beyond this door. “East” is also a good clue as to who and what was behind it….
Read moreDay 2 and already one which will be a little more of a tester. A door through which a famous 19th century artist passed when he arrived home at the end of his daily trudge from work at a West End art dealer. Any idea who and where this door is? Click the pic to…
Read moreYour clue to our first door is that Lord Mayors are sworn into office here… So what door is this? Click the pic to reveal the answer! Features on Jen Pedler’s tour The Real Dick Whittington. Remember we’ll be publishing one a day on our blog right up until 24th December so look out for…
Read moreDecember is upon us, so we thought it would be a nice idea to put our own spin on the tradition of the advent calendar. Advent calendars are all about doors, so in keeping with that doors theme, we asked our guides to come up with a selection of their favourite London doors and we…
Read moreMore from our Literary Footprints 2019 guides, this time Stephen Benton reveals the origins of the famous Bloomsbury Set. Discover more about their lives, loves and homes on his walk Circles, Squares and Triangles – Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury, full booking details are on Stephen’s walks page. The Bloomsbury Set was a group of English…
Read moreAs Literary Footprints 2019 gathers pace, Jen Pedler tells us the story behind a hotel which features in her Mayfair’s Bright Young Things walk, part of this years Footprints of London Literary Festival. You can find full booking details for the walk on Jen’s walks page. Shepheard’s Hotel features in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930)…
Read moreAnthony Davis is the next of our Literary Footprints 2019 guides to preview of one of his walks. In this post, he offers an insight into the life of Bram Stoker and offers some suggestions how he came to write his great novel, Dracula. Anthony’s new walk Bram Stoker and the Creation of Dracula –…
Read moreOur Literary Footprints 2019 posts continue with Oonagh Gay exploring the attraction of London to political misfits as highlighted in Joseph Conrad’s novel. Find out more on her walk Conrad’s The Secret Agent: Anarchism in Fitzrovia which features as part of our October festival of London literary walks, full booking details are on Oonagh’s walks…
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