Spend the day…..on the Circle Line (Part 1)
Even a London walking tour guide like myself can see the benefits of sitting in a tube train and making your way from A-B, or in this...
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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
Aug 22, 20211 min read
Reversed
One word Sunday #London #OWS #Underground
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Steve Matthews
Aug 21, 20211 min read
To trains for Harrow and Uxbridge
Six word Saturday Taken during the last tour of TFL’s offices at 55 Broadway, soon to become a luxury hotel. #6WS #London #History...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 20, 20213 min read
Doing the talking while you’re walking
Phew! Well that was a mammoth recording session. For those who haven’t read an earlier post Technotours the recording is for some self...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 16, 20212 min read
Dark times in the Kings Road
I must admit I don’t know Chelsea very well, it’s on my “to do” list to get more familiar with it. Recently I visited the Saatchi Gallery...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 13, 20212 min read
Musca domestica Linnaeus
The House Fly Just a quick follow on post from Wednesday’s musing on the rat infestation around the Strand in 1903. During July 1707, the...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 11, 20212 min read
Rattus norvegicus
Rattus norvegicus Definitely my favourite and probably the best studio album by The Stranglers, released in 1977, so the copy in my...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 9, 20212 min read
Sheer Folly
Last week I posted about the debacle of the Marble Arch Mount, which got me thinking of a similar instance of abject failure over 125...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 8, 20211 min read
Reflection
One Word Sunday The spire of St Clement Danes and behind the Royal Courts of Justice on an overcast Sunday morning. #London #OWS
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Steve Matthews
Jun 7, 20211 min read
Not Avenues, But Alleyways
Once you’ve designed a tour, walked it countless times, discovered new things along the way to add in and found bits to leave out, you do...
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Steve Matthews
Jun 6, 20211 min read
Time
One word Sunday Clock above the entrance to Warnford Court, Throgmorton Street, City of London. #Clocks #OneWordSunday #OWS #Time
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Steve Matthews
Jun 5, 20211 min read
Morning sun rays on Gresham Street
Six Word Saturday Weekend Sky#30 St Lawrence Jewry, Gresham Street 7.58 am outside St Lawrence Jewry on Gresham Street. In the distance...
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Steve Matthews
Jun 4, 20211 min read
Please Sir, I want some more
The immortal line penned by Dickens in Oliver Twist which was serialised from 1837. I actually have a connection to Oliver, we’re both...
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Steve Matthews
May 31, 20211 min read
Written in tablets of stone
Enter the shiny glass and steel station facade at Blackfriars and the world is your Oyster(card) as to your destination. Places as...
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Steve Matthews
May 30, 20211 min read
Meat
One word Sunday Don’t know if there any Tripe Dressers left in Smithfield, but this was once the site of Edmund Martin Ltd at 3 Lindsey...
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Steve Matthews
May 29, 20212 min read
Getting back on the horse
Picture the scene, it’s March 2020 and my fledgling guided walking tour business, A London Miscellany Tours is getting up a nice head of...
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Steve Matthews
May 29, 20211 min read
The Noted House For Paper Bags
Part of Six word Saturday I’d always put 46 Crispin Street down as a trendy piece of gentrification in the heart of Spitalfields, however...
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Steve Matthews
May 22, 20211 min read
The Mercers Maiden and her moustache
Posted as part of six word Saturday The Mercers Maiden The Mercers Maiden is a small piece of stone relief carving that is on the wall of...
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Steve Matthews
May 21, 20212 min read
Little things please little minds
Apparently an idiom by Ovid, but then his mate Aesop said “Good things come in small packages”. I’m inclined to side with both...
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