“We are not amused”
The phrase is often attributed to Queen Victoria and has passed into common usage to note perceived strait-laced stuffiness, bolstering...
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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
Sep 25, 20222 min read
Its all in the pronunciation
Doing what I do, walking around and looking at a London that in parts doesn’t even exist today there has to be an element of imagination...
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Steve Matthews
Sep 24, 20221 min read
Different aspects of the same building
Six Word Saturday Festival Gardens, St. Pauls #6WS #London #Sculpture #Walking
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Steve Matthews
Sep 23, 20227 min read
The quack will see you now
Medieval medicine and it’s practitioners get a rather bad press, Quackery neatly wrapping the whole issue into an understandable term....
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Steve Matthews
Sep 16, 20224 min read
Searching For Old King Lud
Ok, let us start with the supposition of Geoffrey of Monmouth the 12th century chronicler of the British Isles. King Lud was a pre-Roman...
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Steve Matthews
Sep 11, 20221 min read
High
One Word Sunday Looking down on the Monument #History #London #Monuments
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Steve Matthews
Sep 9, 20225 min read
The Affair Of The Brown Dog
Recently I visited Battersea Park for the first time in about fifty years. I can remember being taken as a small child to see the...
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Steve Matthews
Sep 5, 20226 min read
Clerkenwell
Today’s Clerkenwell is popular with creative firms and dotted with smart apartment blocks in converted warehouses. It has many good...
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Steve Matthews
Sep 4, 20221 min read
Curve
One Word Sunday The Barbican #architecture #London #OWS
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Steve Matthews
Sep 3, 20221 min read
Keep your feet off the table
Six Word Saturday The wild table of love by Gillie & Marc. Paternoster Square #6WS #London #Sculpture #Walking #Publicart
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Steve Matthews
Sep 2, 20224 min read
A tale of two halves
Do you sometimes get that feeling? The one where you know something is just not quite right, but you can’t put your finger on why. It...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 29, 20223 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
Aug 28, 20221 min read
Straight
One Word Sunday City of London Boundary Markers #London #OWS #Walking
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Steve Matthews
Aug 27, 20221 min read
I’m going Ten Pin bowling tonight
Six Word Saturday Winged Lion, Holborn Viaduct #6WS #History #London #statues
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Steve Matthews
Aug 26, 20226 min read
Greek Street, Then and Now
Greek Street, Soho I’ve always found Greek Street in Soho to be a bit of an oasis, if a slightly shabby one when compared to some of it’s...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 22, 20221 min read
Last chance to see… (well for a while anyway)
If you’ve never visited the Museum of London near the Barbican then you’ve got four months to do so as it’s closing. The museum will shut...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 20, 20221 min read
Under is as elaborate as over
Six Word Saturday Under Holborn Viaduct, Farringdon Street EC1 #6WS #London #Victorian #Walking
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Steve Matthews
Aug 19, 20223 min read
Cleary Gardens
Space where you can sit and reflect, away from the noise and commotion of the City can be hard to find. One such little oasis is Cleary...
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Steve Matthews
Aug 13, 20221 min read
Petunias and porticos in Temple Avenue
Six Word Saturday Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue. #6WS #London #Walking
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Steve Matthews
Aug 12, 20224 min read
The Bridge of Sighs
So, you have the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, then there’s the one in Oxford and another in Cambridge. I counted another twelve in Europe...
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