Footprints of London

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

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…

We trace the course of the Great Fire and the events of those 3 -4 days and attempt to see through the smoke of the myths surrounding it. In September 1666 a great conflagration swept through the City of London. It destroyed over 13,000 houses, making nearly 100,000 homeless. It ripped through the buildings that…

We 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…

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…