Footprints of London

It was hard work keeping Victorian London supplied with food. This Virtual Tour looks at the factories where famous food brands were made. Nineteenth century London was the largest city in the world – with a big appetite! Food needed to be produced on an industrial scale and factories to make food sprang up all…

Kent's coast is full of history. This online talk will take you on a journey from Dungeness to Sheerness via the White Cliffs of Dover The county of Kent has a stunning coastline, from the lonely shingle beaches of Dungeness to the epic White Cliffs of Dover. With some of the Kent coast closer to…

Places in London you can visit that owe their roots to the East India Company, one of the most powerful companies in history In 1601 Sir James Lancaster left London on a journey to what is now Indonesia – the first voyage of the East India Company. Over the following 250 years the East India…

Stories of sunken ships in the Thames from Roman times to the present day With so many ships visiting London, it is hardly surprising that there have been thousands of shipwrecks in the Thames. This Virtual Tour tells the story of 12 ships that have sunk in the Thames, from a Roman cargo ship, to…

This walk takes in some of the locations connected to Thames Ironworks FC – the football club that was a forerunner to West Ham United The Thames Ironworks was a large shipbuilding yard at Bow Creek in East London. In 1895 they formed a company football team that played in the Southern League and FA…

This is the big one – a climb up to Westerham Heights standing at 245 m above sea level – the highest point in Greater London This walk is part of a series visiting the highest point in each London borough – this time the big one – Westerham Heights – the highest point in…

One of a series of walks visiting the highest point in each London borough. This one climbs 92m to Wakemans Hill Avenue in Kingsbury The summit of the London Borough of Brent is in the middle of surburban streets in Kingsbury. But these streets are quite unusual – containing some houses designed by Ernest Trobridge,…

Woolwich Dockyard was where Henry VIII's ship The Great Harry was built in 1514. This walk explores the site of shipbuilding for 350 years    In 1514 the warship Great Harry was constructed at Woolwich – the pride of Henry VIII’s fleet. For nearly 350 years after this ships were built and repaired at Woolwich…

The story of the family that gives its name to Russell Square Ever wonder how the streets around Russell Square get their name? This Virtual Tour hosted on Zoom looks at the generations of the family that owned the land around Russell Square, starting with Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton , protégé to Thomas…

Tales of love, bravery, crime and friendship from Italian Clerkenwell 1830-1950   From the mid 19th Century  to the Second World War the streets of Clerkenwell around Saffron Hill were known as Il Quartiere to the Italian residents. This walk will explore every day life in London’s Little Italy, introducing the characters who made up…