Footprints of London

The history of Smithfield through its iconic pubs: the markets, the monsateries, executions, Barts Fair and the new London Museum. There is so much history flowing through Smithfield: the markets and monasteries, a great London hospital, the grim site of executions, an infamous London fare and a revolutionary railway. And the prestigious new London Museum…

The history of Smithfield through its iconic pubs: the markets, the monsateries, executions, Barts Fair and the new London Museum. There is so much history flowing through Smithfield: the markets and monasteries, a great London hospital, the grim site of executions, an infamous London fare and a revolutionary railway. And the prestigious new London Museum…

The history of Smithfield through its iconic pubs: the markets, the monsateries, executions, Barts Fair and the new London Museum. There is so much history flowing through Smithfield: the markets and monasteries, a great London hospital, the grim site of executions, an infamous London fare and a revolutionary railway. And the prestigious new London Museum…

A whimsical tour in west Soho, seeing its history through pubs, including a dodgy pump, a visionary poet and an arm-less bard. Richard’s walk takes in a famous London department store which had its own local; a pub with an infamous pump on the street outside and a route marked by morbid watering holes. It’s…

Exploring the legacy of a slum through some historic social buildings, atmospheric old streets and fine churches in London's West End. St Giles was once one of the most squalid, insanitary and criminal areas in the country; it was said to contain, “the lowest conditions under which human life is possible.” It grew from the…

Following part of the route to Tyburn via fine and historic pubs and exploring the gruesome history of the Tyburn Fair and that last drink. Public hangings at Tyburn were carried out for hundreds of years. The condemned would be led there in a procession from Newgate prison as part of a gruesome public fair…

Walk on the dramatic and farcical events of 16 October 1834 when the medieval Houses of Parliament burnt down. 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?! I bring you the story of that grim night, as…