Clive Murphy, Oral Historian
Join me for a ramble through two thousand years of culture at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked to a recipe of 1720 served in a three hundred year old house. CLICK HERE...
View ArticleAt The Monument
CLICK HERE TO BOOK Novelist Kate Griffin returns to The Monument, half a century after her first visit If you lay The Monument on its side to the West, the flame hits the spot in Pudding Lane where...
View ArticleTiles By William Godwin Of Lugwardine
CLICK HERE TO BOOK There is spot where my eyes fall as I enter the house between the front door and the foot of the stair, where I always felt there was something missing and it was only when I...
View ArticleLiverpool St Station In The 20th Century & Beyond
John Betjeman on Liverpool St Station c1961, photograph by David Sim If you have not yet objected to the monstrous block they want to plonk on top of Liverpool St St Station, the deadline is 4th...
View ArticleWonderful London’s East End
Click here to book for my City of London Tour on 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on 19th July It is my pleasure to publish these evocative pictures of the East End (with some occasionally...
View ArticleEd Gray’s Streetlife Serenade
Click here to book for my City of London Tour on Sunday 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on Saturday 19th July Ed Gray introduces his new exhibition, Streetlife Serenade: 30 Years of Painting City...
View ArticleAt Billingsgate Roman Bath House
Click here to book for my City of London Tour on Sunday 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on Saturday 19th July Tepidarium at Billingsgate Roman bathhouse In Lower Thames St, where the traffic...
View ArticleIn Old Rotherhithe
Click here to book for my City of London Tour on Sunday 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on Saturday 19th July St Mary Rotherhithe Free School founded 1613 To be candid, there is not a lot left of...
View ArticleAt The Caslon Letter Foundry
Tickets are available for my walking tours now Click here to book your ticket for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS on Saturday 19th July . 22/23 Chiswell St with Caslon’s delivery van outside...
View ArticleAn Afternoon In Great Bardfield
CLICK HERE TO BOOK FOR MY SPITALFIELDS TOUR ON 19th JULY Inspired by the Edward Bawden exhibition at Dulwich and encouraged by an invitation from resident Stella Herbert, I enjoyed a trip to Great...
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