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• Deciphering a Ghostsign in Petherton Road – Laundries and Landaulettes

  

  Earlier week Sam Roberts contacted me to see if I could help with an enquiry he'd recieved about a faded sign near to the southern tip of Clissold Park. Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• RIP Clark's Creamed Barley (CCB) Ghostsign, Mornington Crescent

  

  Yesterday I happened to notice that one of my favourite ghostsigns has been lost beneath an extension to a neighbouring property. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Pre-occupied During Covid-19

  

  Oh dear... I let this site slip. These past few months I have been going out for lots of long walks, finding new things and taking lots of photos. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Changing Face of London – Coming Soon in 2000

  

  One of the things I have been busying myself with during this period of lock-down and enforced islolation is a concerted effort to sort out, tidy up and/or get... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Finsbury Park Elephants

  

  Wandering from Highbury Fields to Crouch Hill last month I thought I'd take a couple of detours to check on the elephants.Ambler/Romilly March 2020In August las... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Holloway Memories – Shopping in the 1990sManolis' Goodbye

  

  In January 1988 I moved from Romford/HaroldWood into a flat in Marlborough Rd, N19, keen to be living in area that ticked all my boxes – easy transport... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Endangered Species by Barry Baldwin on Grand Buildings

  

  Blimey! How did I not notice this until last year?Trafalgar Square is a busy junction that I usually walk through or round quickly as I play 'dodge the tourists... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Odeon Holloway – Update on Renovations

  

  The Odeon Holloway is being renovated.The info boards around the hoardings show that they are reinstating much of the original Art Deco colour sceme and... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Carved Reliefs by G. Herickx at Cecil Sharpe House

  

  A couple of weeks ago I went to an interesting exhibition at Cecil Sharp House, the home of english folk dancing, in Camden NW1. The building is fairly... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Art Deco Architecture in Central London

  

  Oops, I let the blog posts take a back seat whilst I have been researching new walking tours these past few months.Spurred on by the success of my Art Deco era... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Defaced Ghostsigns in Chalk Farm Road

  

  Last month I went out for strol and ended up in the the Camden and Primrose Hill area. I was just enjoying the bright weather, following my nose, look at stuff... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Update Re Doorway Mosiac in Caledonian Road

  

  A while back I wrote about this doorway in N1.I completely forgot about it until I was looking in the directories for something else along The Cally and found... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2020 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Plumbs the Butcher, Hornsey Road, Reveal of Older Sign

  

  The W. Plumb shopfront earlier this year. Last week, whilst heading up to Crouch End on a 91 bus, I noticed an old wooden sign had been revealed at 493 Hornsey... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2019 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Hanging on in There in York Way

  

  Just north of the railway line at 186 York Way, over the road from what used to be Maiden Lane railway station, just one old Victorian building remains... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2019 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Christmas is Coming...

  

  This Sunday 1st Dec, Noon–5.30pm, find me up at my stall on Navigator Square as part of Islington Council's Archway Christmas Lights Switch-on – this is always ... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2019 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Australia House

  

  Last week my friend Rob Smith, a fellow Footprints of London guide, told me that an Australian lady on one his walks said she followed my blog and she was... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2019 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Tutankhamun Exhibition at The Saatchi Gallery – It's Good but It's Not Good

  

  Last week I went to a preview of this exhibition and it's been playing on my mind ever since as to what to write here. I was initially excited to be going to se... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2019 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Sacred Markings at St Magnus The Martyr

  

  St Magnus The Martyr on Lower Thames Street sits at the northern end of Old London Bridge.There are some interesting things in the churchyard including a... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2019 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Cally Clocktower and Park – Guided Tours

  

  I have really enjoyed leading tours up to the top of this marvellous clocktower.Having spent time talking to people using the park or living in the flats... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2019 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Rembrandt's Light at Dulwich Picture Gallery

  

  Oooh this is lovely.Dulwich Picture Gallery have again come up with a corker of an exhibition.Last week I went on a curators' tour of Rembrandt's Light... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2019 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS