Footprints of London

From WWII Brixton is a centre for black Britons as well as South London fairies, squatters, poets, Latin American migrant entrepreneurs. The neighbourhood radiates brilliant industrial solutions of Victorian engineers, but who built it? This walk puts hard-working navvies at the centre of the story and tells how the area developed in the face of…

The Stour Estuary was one Ground Zero for cruel 17th-century witch-crazes. The walk focuses on which women were targeted, why and how. On t On this two-guide walk along the Stour Estuary Laura tells the story of women accused of witchcraft during a craze that played out in the three villages of Lawford, Manningtree and…

Once shipbuilding centre for Colchester, now sailing-cum-commuter village, with bohemian and gay histories, a whale and The Essex Serpent. Wivenhoe on the River Colne once functioned as a centre for shipbuilding and commercial fishing for the port of Colchester — especially of oysters and scallops. Smuggling was another important activity, set in the folklore of…