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Here’s another fantastic staircase which we couldn’t feature in our recent top 10 as we didn’t have a photo at the time. Luckily the National Trust have supplied us with this photo of the beautiful staircase at 2 Willow Road. The house was the home of architect Erno Goldfinger and the hub of an amazing…
Read moreRobin has news of three great Sherlock Holmes walks you can join during this October’s Literary Footprints Saturday 18th October 11am Sherlock Holmes and the Red-Headed League led by Robin Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are an immortal pleasure. By joining your friendly guide Robin, we’ll recreate the thrilling adventure of ‘The Red-Headed League’ on foot,…
Read moreContinuing our series looking at the legacy of British Kings and Queens. This time Henry I, otherwise known as Henri Beauclerc After the demise of William II in the New Forest, his younger brother Henry wasted no time in claiming the throne, being crowned in Winchester a few days afterwards. With his older brother Robert…
Read moreIf your familiar with the London weather you’ll realize that a sundial is perhaps not the most obvious way of telling the time here. That hasn’t stopped sundials being built though, and you can find them all over London. There’s something really nice about measuring the passing of time by measuring the sun moving across…
Read moreThis October our Literary Footprints festival celebrates London books and authors with over 40 walks and talks Among the events will be a series of walks looking at one of the greatest of London Writers – Virginia Woolf Virginia to Vita Sackville-West, Nov. 13, 1937 “I’ ll take you to The Tower–I’ve just…
Read moreJenni Bowley reports from this years Swan Upping Wednesday 16th July was a busy day for the City livery companies! While Footprints of London guide Jill Finch was enjoying the Cart Marking Ceremony in Guildhall yard, other Footprints guides (Anne Tickell, Kathryn Prevezer, Elaine Wein and myself) were entranced by the Swan Upping taking place…
Read moreHMS President has a new camouflage scheme that, paradoxically, might help draw more attention to this veteran ship When you think of historic warships moored on the Thames, HMS Belfast springs immediately to mind. However another even older vessel lies slightly further upstream – HMS President, and she has had a striking new paint scheme…
Read moreJill Finch went to see the cart Marking Ceremony yesterday 2014 is becoming the year I try to attend all those City Ceremonies I learned about whilst on the the City Guiding course. I got to the John Stowe Memorial Service and the Beating of the Bounds. I missed the Knollys Rose ceremony after reading…
Read moreContinuing our series on traces of Kings and Queens in London – this time William the Conqueror’s son William II, known as William Rufus When William I died in 1087 he split his kingdom between two of his sons. William’s oldest son Robert was left in charge of the core territory in Normandy, however his…
Read moreA warning to those who enjoyed our Top 20 Animal Sculptures feature – some bite! This is one of the corbels in Temple Church, reconstructed from the 14th century originals after the church was badly damaged during World War Two. Its interesting to speculate whether the dog biting a mans ear relates to an actual…
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