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This time Tina Baxter on the perfume house Grossmith. Tina’s next walk is about T S Eliot’s The Wasteland on January 17th A visit to Fortnum & Mason proved to be quite an adventure. A day off from being a City Guide and what happens? To escape the chaos of the ground floor my companion…
Read moreDavid Charnick looks at The Electric Telegraph Company – the subject of one of the stops on his walk that looks at London’s engineering history Founders’ Court is tucked away off of Lothbury behind the Bank of England, and I imagine virtually everybody who passes it doesn’t even look at it, let alone knowing…
Read moreWith so many of us focussing our attention on Christmas shopping it seemed a good time to choose our favourite London specialist shops. Some of them famous ones, some of them not so famous. If you get tired of shopping though you can always come on one of our walks to get…
Read moreThis Spring we will be holding the Footprints River Walks Festival – from 16th April to 4th May – it will be a series of walks telling the story of London through its rivers. Each walk will cover a different theme, including the story of London’s bridges, pirates, livery companies, London’s docks, the industrial…
Read moreLast week, Footprints of London Guide Robin (aka Sherlock Walks) was filmed by ITV’s This Morning, discussing Sherlock Holmes locations with Mr Anthony Horowitz, the creator of ITV’s Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. This was a great honour for Robin, a lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan, to be filmed in the recreation of Sherlock Holmes’s…
Read moreContinuing our series looking at the legacy monarchs have left to London. This time Henry II In the last part we looked at the reign of King Stephen who seized the throne before Matilda could claim the throne herself. Despite years of war Matilda was unable to gain the throne herself, despite winning military victories…
Read moreAndrea Vail reports from this years Lord Mayors Show This past Saturday saw the biggest and oldest street party and procession in the world make its annual trip through the City of London. Of course I’m talking about the Lord Mayor’s Show. It is the annual procession of the newly elected Lord Mayor of…
Read moreEarlier this year we listed our favourite London Secret Gardens. Now Neil Sinclair has news of another garden project on an interesting site It once housed enough wine, spirits and provisions to entertain a newly-married king and keep the powerful and wealthy Bishop of Winchester and his guests fed and watered for weeks But…
Read moreRob Smith looks at the true story behind some of the characters and locations in the TV series Peaky Blinders. Find out more on The Real London of Peaky Blinders walking tour which he runs on various days throughout the year, or you can book to it with a few friends at a time that suits…
Read moreA big thanks to all who came on our Literary Footprints Festival events in October. Here are a few photos from the walks Dave had this great comment from someone who came on the walk “It always astounds me how much information you and your fellow guides have about our wonderful city and you were…
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