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
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!
“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
Cartophilia
I’m a Cartophile loud and proud and don’t care who knows it. Sound dramatic, but actually its only the love of maps. Old or new I can spend long periods of time perusing them without any plan in mind. If you can have such a thing, one of my favourites and an item I would… Continue reading Cartophilia
1984 and all that
I’ve been catching up on my reading lately, George Orwell in particular. I’d read Animal Farm at school and hadn’t thought much of it until years later when I reread it and started to understand what was going on. I know exactly when I read 1984 it was in 1984, due mostly to the film… Continue reading 1984 and all that
Explain it to the old man
I’ve always thought that I’m pretty up to date as far as life in general is concerned. I may not understand how things like AI work but I can use it (Always nice to have someone to chat to when her indoors is away). Music? Well it’s all been down hill since about 1984 so… Continue reading Explain it to the old man
A souvenir from starving Germany
You may have read my post last Friday regarding the Elizabethan building that was discovered when a bomb exploded near to it during a First World War air raid. One of the participating Zeppelins on the raid was L13, a German naval Zeppelin under the command of Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Mathy. Apart from raining down terror… Continue reading A souvenir from starving Germany