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!
Who put the TO in Tower?
Six Word Saturday
Patrick Hamilton
If I’m being honest, I’d never heard of Fitzrovia until about thirty years ago. Then one afternoon, I caught the back end of a play on Radio 4 called Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky. Not a lot on the Dial-Up Internet back then, only the authors’ name, Patrick Hamilton and a list of books… Continue reading Patrick Hamilton
Thursday Doors
Wordless Wednesday
Stairway to Heaven
I’ve always wondered at the design of the escalator system on many of London’s underground stations. It is such a simple idea, but the machinery involved is quite complex. The only design limitation came when they were retro fitted to existing stations with limited space. It was in 1892 that the first working escalator materialised,… Continue reading Stairway to Heaven
Thursday Doors
Wordless Wednesday
Silent Sunday
Look up, not across or down
Six Word Saturday
A LONDON MISCELLANY 