Footprints of London

Taking in some of the great Companies, showing their all-encompassing past impact and continued relevance with some superb Hall buildings. We might think of the City of London Livery Companies today as overblown, rich, dining clubs with weird, ancient ceremonials. But for hundreds of years they made the City tick: They regulated and protected trade,…

A Tour featuring the music clubs, fashion shops, galleries and protest sites of Swinging London. It was 1966 and London was exploding with new, young, cutting edge movements in music, fashion, film and photography. America’s Time magazine called London “the swinging city”! to cap it all there were the joyous events in July on a…

Walk on the dramatic and farcical events of 16 October 1834 when the medieval Houses of Parliament burnt down on the190th anniversary. Everyone’s heard about The Great Fire of London of 1666, but whoever’s heard about that epic blaze which tore through the Houses of Parliament in 1834?! On its 190th anniversary, I bring you…

Walk on the dramatic and farcical events of 16 October 1834 when the medieval Houses of Parliament burnt down on the190th anniversary. Everyone’s heard about The Great Fire of London of 1666, but whoever’s heard about that epic blaze which tore through the Houses of Parliament in 1834?! On its 190th anniversary, I bring you…