The three ships of Great Marlborough Street
Great Marlborough Street runs roughly parallel to Oxford Street emerging into Regent Street. One of it’s most famous confluences is...
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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
Jan 9, 20233 min read
Terrorism 17th century style
In the last post, Hide and Seek in Moorgate, I relayed the story of the run up to the English Civil War and how five members of...
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Steve Matthews
Jan 6, 20233 min read
Hide and Seek in Moorgate
I’ve had an interest in the English Civil War for some time, but have never really got to grips with it, that is until this Christmas...
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Steve Matthews
Dec 23, 20224 min read
Ham Yard, an apt setting
Philanthropy at Christmas comes in many forms whether it is sending money to an appeal, donating to a food bank or possibly even...
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Steve Matthews
Dec 20, 20224 min read
“Why was the Snowman sorting through the carrots?”
The answer can only be found in one place and that is the inside of a Christmas cracker, for it is one of the many terrible jokes that...
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Steve Matthews
Dec 16, 20225 min read
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting…..stolen!
I came across a seasonal tale recently, one that Charles Dickens if he’d been alive at the time might have woven into one of his stories...
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Steve Matthews
Dec 12, 20222 min read
Seasons Greetings
The Maughan Library Not a flake of snow or a plump robin to be seen in the picture above, but this grand building in Chancery Lane is...
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Steve Matthews
Dec 9, 20224 min read
Chez Scrooge
Following on from the last post and keeping up the festive theme, I thought I’d spend a very wet Wednesday in the warm searching for the...
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Steve Matthews
Dec 5, 20223 min read
“Bah, humbug!”
I don’t normally go in for re-posts, but for reasons better known at the time I posted this in January, so thought with the impending...
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Steve Matthews
Dec 3, 20221 min read
Who Me? No I’m just fat
Six Word Saturday The Pregnant Man, 40 Chancery Lane WC2A Once the private drinking establishment of the advertising agency Saatchi &...
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Steve Matthews
Dec 2, 20224 min read
Marguerite Alibert, Maggie Meller, Marguerite Laurent, and Princess Fahmy
This is a story despite the title about one person. Marguerite Marie Alibert was born on 9 December 1890, in Paris to Firmin Alibert, a...
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Steve Matthews
Nov 28, 20223 min read
Political Assassination in Belgravia
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an...
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Steve Matthews
Nov 27, 20221 min read
Stop
One Word Sunday Eurydice by by Sue Hubbard, Waterloo Underpass “Now I stop my ears with wax, hold fast the memory of the song you once...
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Steve Matthews
Nov 25, 20224 min read
Argyll Robertson Pupils
It’s a chilly mid morning in November 1883 and you have just sat down at the table to enjoy a morning coffee in your flat at number ten...
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Steve Matthews
Nov 21, 20224 min read
Cobblers! No it’s a true story
This year saw the 356th anniversary of the Great Fire of London. The whole event is shrouded in misinformation, untruths and supposition....
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Steve Matthews
Nov 20, 20221 min read
Face
One Word Sunday The Seven Ages Of Man The Seven ages of man monologue in William Shakespeare’s play ‘All the World’s a Stage’ depicts the...
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Steve Matthews
Nov 18, 20223 min read
After the Lord Mayor’s show
The saying goes “After the Lord Mayor’s show comes the S**t cart“, in more polite circles this can be changed to “Dust cart or even...
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Steve Matthews
Nov 11, 20224 min read
Taken At The Flood
The Dominion Theatre stands on Tottenham Court Road. Construction of the theatre began in March 1928 with a design by W and TR Milburn...
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Steve Matthews
Nov 6, 20221 min read
Light
One Word Sunday Copy of the Eleanor Cross, Charing Cross Station #London #OWS
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