Footprints of London

Tracing the social history of this elevated area from an historic wood to fashionable commercial and cultural district. Richard’s second tour of Crystal Palace explores the Triangle and the streets around. He tells the story of the area’s social development emerging from an historic wood (which is remembered in street and pub names) becoming a…

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 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…