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An overnight stop for P&O passengers heading for the Orient, a muse for novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling, a brothel frequented by ships’ captains and a retirement home for assorted ghosts. Grade II* listed Galyons Bar & Restaurant overlooking Royal Albert Dock marina has been all these things since it was built in 1883. But above all…
Read moreSouth of the River, Sue’s Bermondsey walk on 20th July celebrates the life and achievements of Ada Salter; socialist, pacifist, environmentalist, youth-worker and Quaker. Ada was the first female Mayor in London and the first Labour woman mayor in the British Isles. Ada loved singing and plants; with her husband, local doctor and MP Dr Alfred…
Read moreSue McCarthy continues our journey along the Capital Ring on 30th June – from Stoke Newington to Hackney Wick The stretch between Stoke Newington and Hackney Wick may be one of the shortest sections of the Capital Ring but it is certainly richly varied. We start on the old Roman road to Lincoln but…
Read moreOur journey around the Capital Ring continues in North London with Marilyn leading Section 11 from Hendon Park to Highgate This walk which I shall be leading on 16 June, passes through many green spaces and ancient woodlands. It starts in the borough of Barnet and finishes in Haringey. We start a short distance from…
Read moreOur journey around the Capital Ring reaches Wimbledon on Sunday 12th May. Jack Yeomanson looks at Wimbledon during London 2012 Remember 2012? A year that London might never see the likes of again as long as most of us are around, it was the year when, as Sebastian Coe said so immortally in August that…
Read moreTina Baxter is walking Section 6 of the Capital Ring on May 12th, here she looks at one of the feature of the walk – the Beverley Brook Long in length and flow, also a character in fantasy fiction, not a person but a river of 14.3km metres rising at the top of a hill…
Read moreWe have completed three of the fifteen sections of the Capital Ring Walk -19 miles completed, 57 still to go. Over the summer we will be walking the whole route, one section each week on Sundays at 11am, with a different guide each week. Section Four sees Sean Patterson take the baton, with a walk…
Read moreThe second of our guided walks around the Capital Ring route, takes you through mature woodland in Falconwood. Roberta Arden, who leads the walk on Sunday 14th April, looks at the benefits of walking in nature. The benefits of walking in nature can be many and help with emotional, mental and physical health, to…
Read moreSpring is on its way and the Footprints of London guides have a new challenge for you! Over the spring and early summer we will be walking the Capital Ring path, a 78 mile circular path divided into 15 sections connecting parks and open spaces. However long you have lived in London you will see…
Read moreEvery year thousands of art lovers come to London to admire works of art in art galleries, museums and on the streets. However not all of them have been so appreciative. Rob Smith looks at ten of the artworks in London that have been vandalised or damaged. Thankfully, due to the skill of staff at…
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