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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...

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At 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...

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Tiles 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...

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Liverpool 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...

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Wonderful 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...

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Ed 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...

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At 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...

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In 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...

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At 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...

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An 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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