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Neil Sinclair writes about a new installation at Southwark Cathedral While I was on guiding and welcomer’s duty at Southwark Cathedral today I took a few pictures of the (relatively) new Lent installation by local Southwark-based and trained artist/designer Angela Wright. Called 40 Days, it is made from spun wool and is suspended from beneath…
Read moreWith the rain stopping for at least a few hours the Footprints of London team have been relaxing at their favourite riverside pub. However everyone seems to have their own favourite! Here are our Top 10 1 The Bulls Head on Strand-on the Green in Chiswick nominated by Alan Fortune. “The Bulls Head is a…
Read moreDone the walk? Now read the book! By Tina Baxter ‘ Freedom’s Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752’ by William A Pettigrew Available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1fzddED William Pettigrew is more widely known amongst us for his ‘no holds barred’ Slavery Walk around the City of London. You…
Read moreWhen some of the team were walking through the old Royal Naval College Greenwich last Wednesday they spotted filming going on for the new Frankenstein film, starring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy Its amazing how flexible Greenwich can be as a film location – having doubled up as everywhere from Berlin to Lilliput in recent years….
Read moreJenny Pedler has a challenge for you.. “A house of great promise (and great premium), ‘undeniable’ situation and excessive splendour…” This was how Charles Dickens described 1 Devonshire Terrace, the Marylebone house he moved into in 1839. It was possibly his favourite of his London houses and certainly the one he lived in the longest….
Read moreRichard has been doing some celebrity spotting on his recent walk! On my walk, Mr Gill’s Precious Ornament, on Thursday evening, we passed the Langham hotel just as Hayley Hasselhoff was getting out of her car to go to the “Coktails with Monroe” exhibition at the hotel, so it seems from the link here:…
Read moreWhile the flooding along the Thames in Surrey and West London in the last few weeks has been truly awful, we can at least be thankful that the Thames Barrier has at least been earing its keep by keeping central London safe from flood tides. The barrier has been raised more times this winter than…
Read moreThis is the very mundane looking exterior to the London Silver Vaults, but as Tina explains, there is far more to see inside Visit to the Silver Vaults – 12th February 2014 by Tina Baxter Taking the No 15 bus from Whitechapel to the Fetter Lane was a very good idea as the rain poured…
Read moreStephen writes about one of Oxford Street’s most interesting buildings The Pantheon – a place for the all the gods in Oxford Street You may have noticed when walking between Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road that the big Marks and Spencer’s store you pass has something a little unusual at the top…
Read moreElaine Wein writes about Claudia Jones – one of the women featured in her walk Hidden Lambeth Claudia Jones lived at No. 6 Meadow Lane Lambeth between 1958 and 1960. She was a feminist, black activist and journalist. She published the West Indian Gazette, Britain’s first post-war Black newspaper but is probably more famous for…
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