I was standing on the corner of Eastcheap and Lovat Lane the other day, when I happened to see a Bedouin tribesman and his three camels heading in the direction of Dover, presumably enroute for Cairo. Obviously I’m being economical with the truth, but I have seen stranger things in the area. Is a man… Continue reading Eastcheap, the road to the pyramids
Author: endean0
Hi, I'm Steve, a London tour guide and owner of A London Miscellany Tours, a guided walking tour company who specialise in small number tours of the greatest city in the world!
A dog licking a cooking pot
This fine piece of street art stands just yards away from Southwark underground station in south London, but what does it mean? It is a replica of a shop sign that used to hang outside of an Ironmongers that plied it’s trade on the corner of Blackfriars Road and Charlotte Street, now called Union Street.… Continue reading A dog licking a cooking pot
Band On The Run
As we progress with this story you’ll see that I had little option but to go with the title that I chose. For my generation and many around it the cover of the album is iconic and as I had decided to use it for this piece I thought I should find out where it… Continue reading Band On The Run
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 Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War Office. He played a large part in drawing up plans to deploy the British Expeditionary Force to France… Continue reading Political Assassination in Belgravia
A Day At The Races
The Noble Sport, The Turf and of course The Sport of Kings, this island race has horse racing in it’s DNA. The earliest race ever recorded on British soil was a contest among Arabian horses imported by the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, held at Netherby in Cumbria around 210 CE. During the 12th century, the… Continue reading A Day At The Races
“Sacked in the morning”
The title of this post comes from the well known football chant usually aimed at a teams manager by the opposition supporters (it’s a given during every game for my team) However I wanted a title to go with a short story that I found during my research into a new audio walking tour of… Continue reading “Sacked in the morning”
That’s one in the eye
Last week footsore and a little disheveled, finding myself on Fleet Steet I decided to take a breather in one of my favourite places in the city, Fountain Court in the Temple. I’d published an audio tour around the Temple a couple of years agovoicemap.me/temple but I must admit that I hadn’t listened to it… Continue reading That’s one in the eye
Can You Hear Me Mother?
Wandering around the streets of London as I do, I always carry with me, in my head at least, a list of demolished buildings that I wished I could have seen. The London Coal Exchange is one, which sat alongside what is now Upper Thames Street and was sacrificed at the altar of the motor… Continue reading Can You Hear Me Mother?
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 just off Sloane Square and was vaguely aware that some of the buildings that the gallery inhabits used to be the Duke of Yorks Royal Military School. The… Continue reading Dark times in the Kings Road
The Pepperers
No, not some obscure 1970s animated children’s TV series with characters made from pepper pots (That’s an idea, perhaps I could pitch it to Cbeebies) but a group of merchants that inhabited the City of London in the early 1100s In last Friday’s post, I expressed my fondness for the 1893 OS map of London… Continue reading The Pepperers