Hold the line please
A short walk from Temple Underground Station you’ll come across several statues of Cherubs. Nothing particularly amazing about that as...
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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
Mar 5, 20211 min read
The Trembling Lady
The Albert Bridge crosses the River Thames from Battersea on the south bank to Chelsea on its north side. The Albert Bridge It was...
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Steve Matthews
Mar 3, 20211 min read
Gone, but not forgotten
There is a headstone in a London cemetery which reads; “Darling Dolly My sunbeam My consolation My joy“ A touching memorial from a...
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Steve Matthews
Mar 2, 20212 min read
A little part of Texas in St James
Should you be in the area of St James and looking for some fine wines, then you’d be likely to visit the shop of Berry Bros. & Rudd. Even...
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Steve Matthews
Mar 1, 20212 min read
A small glass of Old Tom
As you may know Gin or “mothers ruin” was the scourge of the working classes in late 17th century Britain, as depicted in the famous...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 28, 20211 min read
BANG!
St Michael, Crooked Lane was an ancient parish church dating from 1304 situated on the west side of Fish Street Hill in the City of...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 26, 20212 min read
Criminals, Vandals & Visigoths!
It’s a pity that Town Planners can’t be in some way held responsible for the decisions that they make. There are very few instances of...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 25, 20211 min read
Metroland Memories
Just a quick post this morning, brought on by listening to a CD (ask your parents) in my collection of poems by John Betjeman. This one...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 24, 20212 min read
Milo The Cretonian
Apparently Milo was an ancient Greek wrestler and strongman sometimes depicted carrying a bull on his shoulders. His link with London is...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Echoes
I have in my collection a picture entitled Elephant and Tram taken in 1936. It shows an elephant eating an apple from the tram driver. A...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Nice story, but….
Today in 1988 the grave of Boadicea / Boudica, the warrior queen of the Iceni tribe who fought the Romans in Britain was located by...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 21, 20216 min read
STAAAAAANDAAAAART!
I threatened last week to start posting reminiscences of childhood in Metroland. Well here’s the first one and goes back to the late 60s...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 19, 20211 min read
A Good Book
Thought I’d share a picture that hangs in my hallway which I received as a birthday present some years ago. It was taken by photographer...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 18, 20214 min read
The Winter Garden of Oxford Street
Feeling a little peckish as you wander along Oxford Street (when the shops re-open) ?Forgo the delights of the numerous fast food...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 15, 20212 min read
Here Be Dragons
The City of London, the mile square area that roughly constitutes the Roman settlement of Londinium in the 1st century AD and is commonly...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 12, 20212 min read
A Suburban Boy
Born into 1960s “Metroland” as I was, its not difficult to see why the love of Art Deco and the 1930s has stayed with me. By the time I...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 11, 20212 min read
What’s in a name? (part 2)
Just a quick adjunct from the post of the same name posted a couple of days ago. Remember Nicholas”If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 10, 20213 min read
Brass in pocket
Possibly John Rivet was a 17th century example of nominative determinism, that is when your surname influences you to gravitate towards a...
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Steve Matthews
Feb 9, 20213 min read
What’s in a name?
To finish the quote in full, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. (William Shakespear, Romeo & Juliet)....
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Steve Matthews
Feb 8, 20212 min read
At Sixes and Sevens
Not a phrase you hear much nowadays, but I can remember my Grandmother using it quite often, “Oh you’ll have me at sixes and sevens if...
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