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London Borough of Hackney has a wonderful variety of buildings from Tudor Sutton House to modern Bridge Academy This sixty minute virtual tour explores the buildings of London Borough of Hackney. For a long time Hackney was a village outside London, with its parish church, houses of the wealthy like Sutton House and its old…
Read moreSpy stories from the streets of London during World War One and Two A 50 minute talk about espionage and counter intelligence that tells the true stories that inspired spy fiction. You will hear about the reasons the British security services were set up, how they are organised, their role in two world wars and…
Read moreThe stories of ships built in London from the sailing ships of Tudor times to the battleships of World War One London may not spring to mind when you think of shipbuilding but seagoing vessels were constructed here for hundreds of years. The pride of Henry VIII’s fleet – Henry Grace a Dieu was built…
Read moreLetchworth is where social reformer Ebenezer Howard put his idea of the Garden City into practice – and changed Britain forever. In 1898 Ebenezer Howard wrote the book “Garden Cities of Tomorrow” – a bold vision of a new kind of living incorporating the best elements of Town and City Living In 1903 it was…
Read moreA look at the first balloon , airship and aircraft to fly over London, and the stir this caused amongst inquisitive Londoners For years people dreamed of being able to fly over London, something which now, thousands of people do every day. This 50 minute talk on Zoom looks at some of the flights made…
Read moreThis walk visits the village that was built around the Bata shoe factory in the 1930s, then follows a peaceful part of the Thames This is the ninth in a series of walks along the Thames from London to the sea. This walk starts at the Essex village of East Tilbury. In the 1930s the…
Read moreTreasures from the British Museum that were either made or found in London The British Museum is full of beautiful objects from all around the world but how many of them are from London itself? This virtual tour of the British Museum concentrates objects that were made, found or used in London. From Bronze age shields to…
Read moreFrancisco de Miranda was the founder of modern Venezuela. But he spent a lot of his life in London plotting revolution in South America Francisco de Miranda was a remarkable man, being involved in the American War of Independence, the French Revolution and the Spanish and American Wars of Independence, but he spent much of…
Read moreThe 4th of 4 walks telling the story of the port of London looks at home the Surrey Commercial Docks were transformed into part of Docklands This series of walks tells the story of the Port of London through four guided walks. Led by Footprints of London guide Rob Smith, each walk covers a different…
Read moreThe 3rd of 4 walks telling the story of the port of London looks at the huge docks built for steamships in Victorian London This series of walks tells the story of the Port of London through four guided walks. Led by Footprints of London guide Rob Smith, each walk covers a different period in…
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