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After his recent excursion down the Clapham South Deep Level Shelter, Paul Surma has once more been exploring secret underground London for us. This time, he took a tour of one of Churchill’s many secret underground facilities during WW2, the former Down Street Underground station. Fortunately for us, he also took his camera (click on…
Read moreWith Spectre, the latest Bond adventure hitting our screens recently, Michael Duncan explores the story that links one of Fleming’s most famous villains with a couple of famous London Tower blocks and an architecturally-significant Hampstead terrace. Like most great writers, Ian Fleming took inspiration for his fictional characters from real life. He came upon the name James Bond from reading a book on…
Read moreSean Patterson has been running his highly acclaimed walk “Deptford. The Charles Booth Poverty Map” for a number of years. But now he is a Deptford local. Check here for the date of the next walk. Six years ago I decided to do an MA in London Studies at Queen Mary and Westfield and became particularly…
Read moreAs Friday 13th hoves into view (yes, 13th November falls on a Friday this year) some of our guides have hand-picked some appropriately themed walks for that most onerous of dates. As a little warm-up, Paul Surma (who will be running his Ghost. Ghouls and Graveyards walks on that day) delves into the origins of the superstition that this…
Read moreLiterary Footprints – our festival of walks celebrating London books and authors ran during October, and attracted a record number of people on the walks. We had some great feedback from the people who came, and people who went on multiple walks say they loved visiting a place more than once and hearing the different…
Read moreTina Baxter talks about one of the women she features on her Women Through Time Part II walk on Saturday 31st October. Photography was an unusual direction for a woman to take in the mid-19th century, but this did not deter Christina Broom. In May 1903, at the age of 40, she borrowed a plate…
Read moreAs Spectre, the latest outing for 007 hits our cinema screens Michael Duncan talks about the life of James Bond author Ian Fleming. You can hear more in Michael’s walk James Bond and the Spies of Mayfair which he runs regularly. Just off Park Lane, you will find No 27 Green Street where Ian Fleming,…
Read moreWe were delighted to be invited to talk to Robert Elms about the final weekend of the 2015 Literary Footprints Festival on his BBC Radio London show last Saturday, click the picture to hear his interview with Mark Rowland.
Read moreAndrew Parnell discusses the various styles of building adopted in Poplar, East London, in the massive redevelopment of that area in the 20th century which feature in his walk “Stock Bricks to Brutalism: Housing Design History in Poplar“. The 20th century saw massive programmes of redevelopment in the East End of London, sweeping away great…
Read moreStephen Benton discovers another story related to his Made in Chelsea walk, part of the Literary Footprints Festival One of the writers covered by Stephen in his Made in Chelsea walk (Saturday 24 October at 11am) is Thomas Carlyle. Carlyle’s statue sits on Chelsea Embankment near the house he lived in for almost 50 years. First opened to the…
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