{"id":4040,"date":"2015-01-01T14:06:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T14:07:23","slug":"our-highlights-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/2015\/01\/our-highlights-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Highlights of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Footprints of London team have chosen some of their highlights from another busy year. Thank you to everyone who came on our walks this year and all those who read and contributed to our blog. We have lots to look forward to in 2015 including our\u00a0River Walks festival in April, another Literary Footprints Festival in October and more fundraising walks for Amnesty in the summer. Plus, of course, lots more walks that will uncover London stories and help Londoners love their city just a little bit more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rob Smith &#8211; Footprints of London<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mark-river-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4041 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mark-river-pic.jpg\" alt=\"River Thames sunset\" width=\"364\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mark-river-pic.jpg 364w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mark-river-pic.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/mark-rowland\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mark Rowland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">My strangest moment of the year was turning up at Borough to lead a <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/themes\/footprints\/walk.php?id=15095069760\" target=\"_blank\">Dickens walk<\/a> one Tuesday evening, I\u2019d checked in all that had booked when a group of three (plus a baby in a pram) hoved into view and said:\u00a0 \u201cIs this the Dickens walk? We\u2019ve booked\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cWell this is<em> A<\/em> Dickens walk, but I have everyone who has booked here\u201d I replied.\u00a0 On closer examination of their ticket on one of their phones, turned out they\u2019d booked for someone else\u2019s Dickens walk the following Saturday and had somehow managed to confuse a noon Saturday start with a 7.00 pm Tuesday start, so had turned up absolutely randomly four days early at completely the wrong time (and had made arrangements for the husband of the lady with the pram to meet them to pick the kid up so they could go on the walk) \u2013 only to find a guide standing there about to start a Dickens walk!\u00a0 Booked them on, off we went and a lovely time was had by all, but with luck like that running their way I suggested they might want to buy a lottery ticket the following evening\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">My favourite review of the year;\u00a0 a family group from the States who had followed <a href=\"http:\/\/markslondonrambles.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">my blog<\/a> for some time \u00a0finally managed to book on my <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/themes\/footprints\/walk.php?id=15095219207\" target=\"_blank\">St James\u2019s clubs walk<\/a> in the summer and were kind enough to write a post on their travel blog about it afterwards (<a href=\"http:\/\/beachbums1.com\/2014\/08\/12\/london-footprints-of-london\">http:\/\/beachbums1.com\/2014\/08\/12\/london-footprints-of-london<\/a><a href=\"wlmailhtml:{BD92AF28-4AF8-4AE0-8191-F55ABE53FCC2}mid:\/\/00000021\/!x-usc:http:\/\/beachbums1.com\/2014\/08\/12\/london-footprints-of-london\/\">\/<\/a>\u00a0) As they put it themselves:\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Originally, when I told my 16-year-old the name of the tour, I got a raised eyebrow and a not so subtle skeptical look. About an hour into the walk, she whispered in my ear \u201c<em>This isn\u2019t what I expected. It\u2019s really interesting<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> High praise indeed!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Best response to a question put to a group (from one of my kids walks, of course) ; \u201cWho knows where the Great Fire of London is said to have finished\u201d I asked. \u00a0Kid who could have been no more than 7 sticks his hand up: \u201c31 millimetres\u201d he replies.\u00a0 Brilliant.\u00a0 But as a general point, the level of engagement and knowledge I\u2019ve experienced on the kids walks I\u2019ve done this year has been a joy to behold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">And then of course there are the never ending surprise views that London offers.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard people talk about the element of luck in good photography in terms of being in the right place at the right time.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Like the evening I was early for my Dickens After Dark walk so decided to reverse-walk the river section on my way to the meeting point and arrived at Queenhithe at this time, just as the sunset seemed \u201ctrapped\u201d between millennium and Blackfriars bridges and made a perfect silhouette of those walking across the bridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/rob-smith\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Rob Smith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Favourite moments for me are :<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Meeting Liam Garcia on the London part of his <a href=\"http:\/\/thelongwellwalk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Long Well Walk<\/a> from Sheffield to Cape Town which is raising funds to build toilets in communities in Africa. I led a walk for the press day which looked at how London solved its sanitation problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/long-well-walk-liam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4043 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/long-well-walk-liam.jpg\" alt=\"Rob and Liam Garcia from The Long Well Walk\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/long-well-walk-liam.jpg 720w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/long-well-walk-liam.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Speaking\u00a0at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litro.co.uk\/2014\/10\/where-woolf-walked-virginia-woolf-her-life-her-loves-her-works-at-st-olave-hart-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Woolf evening\u00a0St Olave Hart St <\/a>during <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/literaryfestival\" target=\"_blank\">Literary Footprints<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Lovely summer evening walks through Islington Squares and Kings Cross<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kings-cross-leigh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4044 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kings-cross-leigh-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Regent's Canal Kings Cross - pic by Leigh Clothier\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kings-cross-leigh.jpg 225w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/kings-cross-leigh.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Talking 18th century politics in Newington Green with Amnesty<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Amazing a trolley collector in Waitrose Holloway Road that there was a book set in his car park<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lh-river-lea-walk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4046 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lh-river-lea-walk-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lh river lea walk\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lh-river-lea-walk.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/lh-river-lea-walk.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Raising money for the Thames Ironworks Heritage Trust on my River Lea Industrial History walk<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Walking with students from Caterham School as part of their project on Post Apocalyptic Fiction<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Celebrating my 100th walk for Footprints of London with a walk ending on Primrose Hill<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primrose-hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4047 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primrose-hill.jpg\" alt=\"primrose hill\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primrose-hill.jpg 720w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/primrose-hill.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But I think my favourite moment was the look on peoples faces when I took them to Bidder Street in Canning Town, a grim street lined with scrap metal yards. It was amazing to see how people reacted when I showed them pictures of the same street in 1890, with houses on either side and kids in the street. People were very moved that a whole community had just disappeared from the map. That&#8217;s the guides moment of reward \u2013 when your research reveals something interesting people would never have guessed at.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/richard-watkins\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Richard Watkins<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Being <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Richard-Watkins-on-Anne-Diamond-show-14.11.04.wma\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed by Anne Diamond<\/a> on\u00a0BBC Radio &#8211; coming completely out of the blue<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3843 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard.png\" alt=\"Steve and Richard Great Fire of Westminster\" width=\"229\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard.png 229w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard.png 150w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard.png 80w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard.png 118w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/richard.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Doing a walk through a full scale protest in Parliament Square, not recommended and definitely avoiding that again, but actually everyone really seemed to enjoy it &#8211; it added an appropriate atmosphere to a walk about a great fire<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211; Getting a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tripadvisor.co.uk\/ShowUserReviews-g186338-d3742632-r204585988-Footprints_of_London-London_England.html#REVIEWS\" target=\"_blank\"> five star Tripadvisor <\/a>\u00a0review and leading a group of hen women might also rank.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/sean-patterson\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sean Patterson<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">High point was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/england\/london\/travel-tips-and-articles\/exploring-londons-secrets-five-great-walking-tours\" target=\"_blank\">Lonely Planet naming my Whitechapel walk<\/a> on of the 5 best guided walking tours in London. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Strangest moment a chap in an electric wheelchair on my <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/themes\/footprints\/walk.php?id=14936112314\" target=\"_blank\">Whitechapel walk<\/a> who got into an argument with a couple of passers by that got mildly physical. At the next stop the police arrived as the chaps had complained to them so I did a stop at the Wool Exchange while my punter was being interviewed by the\u00a0police within my eye line. All ended happily!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/robin-rowles\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Robin Rowles<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Being telephoned out of the blue and being filmed with Anthony Horowitz in the Sherlock Holmes pub for ITV&#8217;s This Morning.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3942\" style=\"width: 816px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Three-Sherlockians-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3942\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3942\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Three-Sherlockians-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Horowitz, Gary the 'One-legged Newspaper Seller', and Footprints of London guide Robin Rowles\" width=\"806\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Three-Sherlockians-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Three-Sherlockians-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Three-Sherlockians-2.jpg 1612w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Three-Sherlockians-2.jpg 2418w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Horowitz, Gary the &#8216;One-legged Newspaper Seller&#8217;, and Footprints of London guide Robin Rowles<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Footprints of London team have chosen some of their highlights from another busy year. Thank you to everyone who came on our walks this year and all those who read and contributed to our blog. 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