London Walks

London calling. London Walks connecting. This… is London. This is London Walks. Streets ahead. Story time. History time. Top of the morning to you London Walkers. Wherever you are. It's Friday, September 19th,  2025. Our warm up act, as always, the London Calling Book Club Corner. In the Chair today, London Walks' Knight errant, Richard […]

the square is to London what canals are to Venice

The gas lamps throwing halos

London doesn't just import, it cross-pollinates.

he's a leading authority on espionage

'oldest pub in England'

Eurostar is basically a moving living room.

Maximum history, minimum hassle.

Hyde Park – London's open-air parliament.

Hooked, deadly, ready to rip

The Thames Police, like it or not, became London's undertakers.

London calling. London Walks connecting. This… is London. This is London Walks. Streets ahead. Story time. History time. A very good day to you London Walkers. Wherever you are. It's Monday, September 8th,  2025. London Calling Book Club Corner first. Recovering lawyer Tom Hooper's second day in the Chair. If this were Ascot Tom would […]

What it was about this hugely different cup of tea – The Ultimate London Walk – that caught their eye

That's the curtain raiser. Now, shall we walk?

"there are more things in London than are dreamt of in your philosophy Horatio"

High Barnet is the trumpet call.

This is border country – London nudging into Hertfordshire

Postcodes are the city in miniature: eccentric, irregular, a little chaotic — but if you know how to read them, they reveal patterns, layers, history.

the canal itself is London's secret artery

It's walking through the world's memory palace

The city is the show

It's a London no one's ever seen

the manifold, magnificent, mind-bending, maddening mysteries of London postcodes

When Mary's happy Mary dances

"he was the subject of the world's first international manhunt"

Here's a hot London tip

"it took me a year to get an interview with astronaut Neil Armstrong"

Good news for Eliza and Mrs Higgins, the cats who live in St Paul's Covent Garden

One of the most important bits of London you never knew about

Out of fire, a festival

London invented smog; the London Plane invented the cure.

London's Memory Bank (In Blue)

Which is why it's called 'the Westminster Abbey of the City'

the corpse said he felt a lot better and would skip his funeral, said he was off to the wine shop

He kept a tent pitched in the back garden of his Kensington house

"I used to be Commodore of Greenwich Yacht Club"

Rebellion is spreading, like spilled ink across a map

"one woman...all the time in the world"

"It's only Adam and Eve, you know!”

"runs in blood down palace walls"

so many essences of London

"Mary Poppins, her umbrella was a Brigg"

the fighting sailor who invented the Sea Story

Where's this killer statue?

good manners go a long way in London

He was known in RAF circles as Butcher Harris

where the stories bloom

Men walking in giant wooden treadwheels, like human hamsters...

She was cremated on a beach in Bali

"There's anti-German feeling. But no violence"

a kaleidoscope of colour