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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…
Read moreWe find some of London’s legendary pubs, finest pub buildings, with stories of great writers, disgraced courtiers and misleading pub names. Fleet Street is one of London’s most famous thoroughfares. And it contains some of London’s most legendary pubs. They have served as the watering holes of journalists, lawyers, tourists, intellectual and artistic types and…
Read moreExploring the central sites and events reled to World War One, especially the infamous Battle of the Somme around its 110th anniversary. 1916 was a momentous year for the progress of the war. The Battle of the Somme looms large in the public consciousness due to the appalling numbers of lives lost. This year marks its…
Read moreA walk from Dulwich Village to South Dulwich passed grand college buildings and villas, historic cottages, and following the tolled road. Dulwich Village has a very distinctive look and feel with its wide verges, quant finger post signs and grand villas. It was a manor bought by a famous Shakespearean actor in the seventeenth century…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreThe 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…
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