The Downfall Of A Victorian Fraudster
If today you stand on the confluence of Cannon Street, Walbrook and Bloomberg Arcade, you'd be roughly inside The Coopers Arms....
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A really excellent tour. I’ve taken loads of walking tours in London but I learnt many new things from this one. Highly recommended.
LUCY : There's More To Moorgate
Two New Tours published in October, check out the tours page
Just taken the tour during a short break in London. I was amazed that there was so much more to the area of Westminster than parliament. The commentary and directions were easy to understand and there were a lot of interesting facts and story's.
John : The Power and The Glory
Steve Matthews
Jun 22 min read
Rattus Norvegicus
Definitely my favourite and probably the best studio album by The Stranglers, released in 1977, so the copy in my collection is now 47...
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Steve Matthews
Jun 22 min read
Being for the benefit of Mr Kite
One of the most visited performance venues of the late eighteenth century was Astley's Amphitheatre. It was situated close to Westminster...
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May 44 min read
Randy Voo
A few weeks ago I posted a piece called Original Skin during which I bemoaned the area around the Houses of Parliament, mainly due to the...
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May 43 min read
How Curious
There is a small area of central London crammed in between Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Strand and Aldwych. The area is known as Clare...
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May 42 min read
"Spend Yer Money, Take Yer Chance"
Today's post is a rather unseasonal one, prompted by some photo album housekeeping. No wonder I hadn't found it during December as the...
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Steve Matthews
Apr 134 min read
Climbing the greasy pole
History will have many instances of people who possibly from birth have been groomed to hold a lofty position within society. They go to...
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Steve Matthews
Apr 134 min read
Original Skin
A few weeks ago, I plucked up the courage to take a walk around the area of Westminster. Courage is probably a gross exaggeration, but...
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Steve Matthews
Apr 72 min read
In Plain Sight
Question: When is an underground station, not an underground station? Answer: When it's a hotel. Central London has a number of what are...
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Steve Matthews
Apr 74 min read
"A days doings"
The Victorians have always fascinated me. Such drive and inquisitiveness they moved the country forward with their technological...
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Mar 162 min read
Star Gazing
I was reading an article recently about the Gran Telescopio Canarias, and it's observatory based in the Canary Islands, which is...
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Steve Matthews
Mar 133 min read
A Little Bit of The Pharaohs In Piccadilly
Egyptian House, 170-173 Piccadilly is one of those functional early 20th century buildings that in the next hundred or so years people...
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Steve Matthews
Mar 135 min read
"Smash the Pagan Idol!"
You can hear the mob baying, whipped up into a frenzy of anti Catholic fervour by the ringleaders. The crowd some three hundred strong...
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Steve Matthews
Mar 25 min read
The Dame,the Financier and the station that never was
I already knew of one of the protagonists of this story, but not the other and only recently learnt how their opposing views created an...
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Steve Matthews
Mar 22 min read
Owen's Fields
The entrance to this small park was once the entrance to a school playground that separated Dame Alice Owen’s Girls’ School and Owen’s...
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Steve Matthews
Mar 26 min read
Confusion!
Sometimes logic goes out the window, especially where London is concerned. Take this example. Q. I'd like to go and see Mansion House in...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 23 min read
All's well that ends well
I recently took a photo of a drinking fountain just across the road from St Paul's Cathedral. I was struck with the slight similarity in...
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Steve Matthews
Jan 274 min read
Drunk and incapable
I'd always wondered what the "incapable" meant in the phrase. Incapable of what exactly? Creating children's novelty balloons, reciting...
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Steve Matthews
Jan 194 min read
Sorry, no fish today
Had the luxury of travelling on a bus a few weeks ago from Victoria to Charing Cross. I call it a luxury because it gives a different...
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Steve Matthews
Jan 184 min read
Bucolic Bonnington Square
Bonnington Square in Vauxhall was built during the 1870s. Only a "six" away from the Oval cricket ground it comprised compact neat rows...
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