A London Inheritance

If you are interested in exploring the history of Bermondsey, three tickets have just become available for my walk next Saturday, the 31st of October.

Two very different and unconnected subjects for this week’s post, although I am sure that the former would have some views on the later.

For this week’s post, I am back to my challenge to visit as many Thames stairs as possible, and have arrived at East Lane Stairs, at the end of East Lane, at the junction with Bermondsey Wall West.

In the last of my Rocque Ring posts for a few weeks, I have reached Hyde Park Corner after walking along Constitution Hill at the end of the last post on the walk.

I am into part three of my Rocque’s Ring walk – exploring the boundaries of built London in 1746, and for this section of the walk, I am starting at the rear of the Bluecoat School in Caxton Street, which was the end of part two, and walking up to Hyde Pa…

Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk is a very old town.

Firstly, an update to the second part of the Rocque Ring walk: I have been away for the last couple of weeks with very limited Internet access, so have been unable to correct an error I made in the post on the 30th of August.

In the 75th anniversary year of the Festival of Britain, I am looking at some of the creatives behind the Festival.

For today’s post, I am continuing my walk around the Rocque Ring, exploring the boundary of London in 1746, and discovering just how big a task this will be, as there is so much to be discovered in just a short length of the walk.

Statues and monuments are fascinating.

There are so many walks through and around London, and for the really ambitious there is the Capital Ring, and the longer London Loop, or London Outer Orbital Path, which takes you on a walk of almost 150 miles around the edges of Greater London.

At the end of the last war, there were a range of booklets published by local authorities, postal and transport organisations, police, fire service etc. documenting London at war and their participation in the six years during which the destruction of the…

For this week’s post, I am visiting Old Sarum in Wiltshire, one of the places photographed by my father whilst on cycling tours of the country, with friends from National Service.

I have written quite a few posts about the Festival of Britain, and as this year is the 75th anniversary of the festival, I want to look at another aspect of the festival – the people behind the festival, those who created the overall theme, architects, i…

A rather long post this weekend.

Thankfully, I do not make that many mistakes in my posts, but when I do, readers always find them, which is really brilliant as some are very embarrassing, and I want the posts to be as factually correct as possible.