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Lockdown means that our Footprints of London guides are doing even more reading than usual, and we are all avid readers. So we asked some of our guides to recommend some of the works of fiction set in London they have enjoyed (and books for which London, or a part of London, as a location…
Read moreDeptford local Sean Patterson shares the fascinating story of the man after whom his street is named When I moved to Millennium Quay in Deptford four and a half years ago, the only remarkable thing that I knew about my address on Glaisher Street was its annoying habit of being auto-corrected to ‘Glazier Street’ by…
Read moreSo how’s your lockdown going? If you’re anything like us, you’re on the lookout for some variety as to how and where to take your government-sanctioned exercise, so we turned to our team of talented guides and asked for some suggestions from their own local areas accompanied with a few historical pearls to help you…
Read moreJen Pedler tells the story behind a blue plaque on the Haymills Estate, Hanger Hill. You can hear more and discover a smorgasbord of 1930s suburban architecture on her Suburbs, Stations and Subways walk coming up on 25th January. I had never heard of Alan Dower Blumlein until I came across the blue plaque marking…
Read moreThank you for all your wonderful feedback on our daily London doors advent adventure, we hope you had fun trying to guess the doors and enjoyed the fascinating little glimpses into London’s history they revealed. You want them all together in the same place? Go on then… 🙂 Click on any of the pics to…
Read moreDay 24 and only appropriate for our final entry on Christmas Eve that we should go to church. But there’s a lot of churches in London to choose from… The dome of this church stands higher than the top of the cross of St Paul’s Cathedral, the title of Jen’s tour below gives you a…
Read moreDay 23 and only two sleeps until Christmas, you getting excited?! A famous fictional barrister fights for our freedoms in this legal arena, but where is it and who might that fictional barrister be? Click the pic to reveal the answer! It features on one of Dave Charnick’s tours, but naming it now would totally…
Read moreDay 22 and we’re nearly there now! Straightforward as you like today; this the entrance to the oldest building in Clerkenwell, but do you know which building that is? Click the pic to reveal the answer! Features on Jen Pedler’s tour An Architectural History of Clerkenwell.
Read moreDay 21 and we’re delving into the origins of a square mile of offices. The City of London is pretty much all office blocks now, a process with its roots in the 19th century, but where did it all begin and which company was behind it? They were once behind a door on this site,…
Read moreDay 20 and more revolutionary housing. A RIBA Gold Medal winning architect (who went on to design estates for Camden Council) built houses here for himself and fellow architects. The title of Jen’s tour below tells you in what area, but do you know the architect or the street? Click the pic to reveal the…
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