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 and North America. The one I want to write about today no longer exists, or rather it has been replaced by a newer bridge, and that is Waterloo Bridge which… Continue reading The Bridge of Sighs
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!
Patrick Hamilton
If I’m being honest, I’d never heard of Fitzrovia until about twenty five 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. I called in at… Continue reading Patrick Hamilton
Steps
One Word Sunday
Sun and arch in total alignment
Six Word Saturday
The Sign Of The Two Headed Swan
I was prompted to take this uninspiring photograph after coming across an old image of the same location. The first picture is Gresham Street in 2020 and the second image is the same street a hundred years earlier in 1920. The most prominent building in the second image is Pickfords the removal company and I… Continue reading The Sign Of The Two Headed Swan
I fought the Law (and the Law won)
Ask anyone who has ever walked through the legal areas of London, be it Inner or Middle Temple, Lincoln’s or Gray’s Inn what’s most striking about them and generally the answer will be the quietude. Given that they all sit next to major roads the atmosphere is one of calmness. I can remember the first… Continue reading I fought the Law (and the Law won)
Concrete
One Word Sunday
Wrapped up just like a parcel
Six Word Saturday The Hoop and Grapes was built in 1721 on part of the historic burial grounds of St Bride’s Church. As an inn, it gained notoriety as a location for illegitimate Fleet weddings. In the 1990s, it underwent several changes and was eventually closed down and scheduled for demolition. However, as the last… Continue reading Wrapped up just like a parcel
“Lord have mercy upon me, I am killed”
Last week I posted about my failure to check out some details with regards to an audio tour I was in the process of publishing and how it was costly in terms of wasted time. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail laments the fact that due to construction work a favourite part of the tour… Continue reading “Lord have mercy upon me, I am killed”
Similar crimes, different outcomes
Recently I posted a picture that made me smile due to the strange use of punctuation. Overzealous use of the full stop is a picture of the entrance to Ludgate Square near to St Paul’s Cathedral and to me there seems to be an issue with carving of the name. Having explored it I found… Continue reading Similar crimes, different outcomes
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