I’d like to share a short story of an incident that happened in 1322. Foster Lane near to St Paul’s Cathedral was at the time known as St Vedast Lane. Today there is a very small and strangely shaped Costa Coffee (other coffee outlets are available) at one end of the street. Just where the… Continue reading Ready, aim, fire!
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!
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The Duke, his magician and a windmill
Old Jewry is a street that runs north to south connecting the Guildhall to Cheapside. In the 1600s an Inn used to stand at the north end of the street known as the Windmill, there is not much known about the building except for its role in a rather bizarre occurrence that happened in the… Continue reading The Duke, his magician and a windmill
“Which service do you require?”
Hopefully, one telephone number that you won’t dial too often will be 999, unless KFC have run out of chicken, as some idiot did during the shortage back in 2018. The number will give you access to the four emergency services, Police, Fire, Ambulance and Search & Rescue. It’s a number that’s ingrained into most… Continue reading “Which service do you require?”
Sunny Saturday morning at Charing Cross
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Hole
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Either it’s drunk, or I am
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That’s a Moray
In my last post I gave a mention to the church of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside. This is the church that appears in the nursery rhyme, Oranges and Lemons. Post war archaeological digs showed that there was a church on the site in Saxon times. During the medieval period the church was redeveloped… Continue reading That’s a Moray
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How big must the hammer be?
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A LONDON MISCELLANY 