Footprints of London

The underbelly of Victorian London seen through a graveyard, workhouse, Ragged school and more in the attractive area of Marylebone. . London in the nineteenth century became the largest city in the world and the centre of the greatest empire in history. However, not everyone shared the glory! Richard’s walk uncovers the underbelly of Victorian…

The underbelly of Victorian London seen through a graveyard, workhouse, Ragged school and more in the attractive area of Marylebone. . London in the nineteenth century became the largest city in the world and the centre of the greatest empire in history. However, not everyone shared the glory! Richard’s walk uncovers the underbelly of Victorian…

The tumultuous politics of the eighteenth century seen through Mayfair’s Squares, grand buildings, Parish church, and power brokers. . Mayfair was built up through the eighteenth century. This was a time when democratic systems were evolving albeit marked by corruption and nepotism and impacted by wars, trade and the development of empire. Politics got everywhere…

The tumultuous politics of the eighteenth century seen through Mayfair’s Squares, grand buildings, Parish church, and power brokers. . Mayfair was built up through the eighteenth century. This was a time when democratic systems were evolving albeit marked by corruption and nepotism and impacted by wars, trade and the development of empire. Politics got everywhere…

The drama of the first ten years of the restoration through Whitehall and St James’s: the court, London development and science. The restoration: a very merry monarch with his glamorous mistresses, flamboyant court and strange “touching for the king’s evil” ceremonies. This is also a time of a new power settlement, the flourishing of science…

A tour on the development of Dulwich Village with diverse architecture, historic graveyard, iconic London boozer and great local characters. On Richard’s second tour of Dulwich, he shows how it developed through the nineteenth century and onwards, with new transport links, a new Parish church, new park, new suburban streets, houses and shops springing up…

Plotting remains of the Crystal Palace High Level line: station sites, arches, tunnel portals, the track bed and other great features. When the Crystal Palace exhibition site opened in June 1854 it was served by one railway line to a station half way down the hill carrying thousands of visitors a day… But another private…

The dramatic development, characters and events of one of the highest and most attractive south London areas. When most people think of the history of Crystal Palace, they think of the historic exhibition site – the successor to the Great Exhibition. But there is so much more: in the C19th it was a fashionable shopping…