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Richard 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 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 moreWe were delighted to be invited to talk to Robert Elms about the final weekend of the 2015 Literary Footprints Festival on his BBC Radio London show last Saturday, click the picture to hear his interview with Mark Rowland.
Read moreWith the first event of Literary Footprints Festival less than 24 hours away, as a little taster of what you can expect some of our guides have suggested their favourite quotes that they will be pressing into service on their walks. Not surprisingly, they have come up with as fascinating and diverse a selection as the walks themselves, so, without any further…
Read moreJen Pedler sheds some light on one of London’s lesser-known water courses. … or even France or Luxembourg, think again! If you’ve ever walked through Highgate, Crouch End, Wood Green or Tottenham, the River Moselle could have been flowing beneath your feet without you noticing. It’s Haringey’s hidden river; from its source in Queen’s Wood, Highgate, it…
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…
Read moreMark Rowland takes a backward glance to an occasion when electioneering got really rough… I suppose it’s reasonable enough to assume that the politics is going to get a bit dirty in the lead up to one of the most closely contested elections in living memory this Thursday, but our 21st Century versions of putative Members of…
Read moreMark Rowland hunts out the real London locations behind the stories and characters in the latest TV Blockbuster, Wolf Hall. With the BBC in Tudor fever centred on Wolf Hall, their lavish 6-part adaption of Hilary Mantel’s historical novels Wolf Hall and Bringing up the Bodies, many people have taken to Google in an effort…
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