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Some exciting news from Mark Rowland about a new film project that Footprints of London is helping with. Since I became chairman of Footprints of London earlier this year a number of propositions for partnerships have crossed my inbox and Twitter account. I was contacted towards the back end of last week by a chap called Alex…
Read moreLiterary Footprints got off to a fine start yesterday with two excellent events. Sue Bingham led the walk Embankment to Covent Garden – Literary Heroes Sue told some excellent Sherlock Holmes stories introducing us to Arthur Conan Doyle’s hybrid London of fictional and real locations. Within a few minutes she introduced the group to a…
Read moreNew Footprints of London guide Hazel shares themes in her ‘Follow the Footsteps of Oliver Twist’ walk. Charles Dickens was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and deeply descriptive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable. In his second major work, Oliver Twist, he highlights a number of social issues including the…
Read moreNew Footprints of London guide Sheldon Goodman previews his forthcoming tour of Brompton Cemetery ‘A Cemetery tour? Good grief, that’s a bit morbid isn’t it?’ ‘I can’t stand Cemeteries. They’re too creepy. They’re all depressing and horrible!’ For the longest time, Cemeteries have suffered from an image crisis that seems peculiarly confined to the UK…
Read moreAs part of the Literary Footprints Festival we are hosting an event called Bleeding London which will preview a new exhibition by the Royal photographic Society. To celebrate the Footprints of London Guides are nominating their favourite streets. This time Neil Sinclair and Maggie Blake’s Cause Maggie Blake’s Cause is a small alleyway connecting Shad…
Read moreOur Literary Footprints Festival starts on 1st October and the Footprints of London Guides are sharing their favourite Literary London locations. This time Stephen Benton looks at Rossetti’s house in Chelsea Dante Gabriel Rossetti lived out his last years in Chelsea in a house in Cheyne Walk and is one of the writers featured in…
Read moreAs part of our Literary Footprints Festival we are holding an evening called Bleeding London – which includes a preview of the Royal Photographic Society Exhibition of their project to photograph every street in London. The Footprints of London guides have been choosing their favourite streets – this time Sue Bingham looks at Exeter ‘Change…
Read moreLiterary London starts on 1st October and the Footprints of London Guides are talking about their favourite London literary connections. This time Tina talks about Chaucer and T S Eliot Geoffrey Chaucer born about the year 1342 and died 25th October* 1400 is considered the father of the English language. An unusual choice at the time…
Read moreOur guides are getting ready for the Literary Footprints Festival in October, and so our blog is featuring some of the best of London’s Literary places. One of Neil Sinclair’s favourite stops on his Shakespeare on Bankside walk on Monday 6th and 13th October at 2pm) is the bard’s memorial sculpture and stained glass window in Southwark…
Read moreJen Pedler looks at another Literary connection in London The Langham Hotel, at the bottom of Portland Place, opened in 1865 and was Europe’s first ‘grand hotel’. Its seven floors were served by the first hydraulically powered lifts in the world and each of its 600 rooms had air conditioning, hot and cold running water…
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