Winchester Geese
It’s 1392 and you are a young Galaunt. These were young men, usually of between sixteen and twenty five years old. They were portrayed as...
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A really excellent tour. I’ve taken loads of walking tours in London but I learnt many new things from this one. Highly recommended.
LUCY : There's More To Moorgate
Two New Tours published in June, check out the tours page
Just taken the tour during a short break in London. I was amazed that there was so much more to the area of Westminster than parliament. The commentary and directions were easy to understand and there were a lot of interesting facts and story's.
John : The Power and The Glory
Steve Matthews
- Mar 13, 2023
- 3 min
A rose between the beer vats
“Khalil took the sound as a request, and soon his mouth was on hers, hot and vibrant, firm and needing. Strong, despite that terrible...
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Steve Matthews
- Feb 27, 2023
- 3 min
That’s one in the eye
This short story fits loosely in with the idiom theme that I’ve been perusing recently. The term is used to mean a disappointment or...
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Steve Matthews
- Jan 9, 2023
- 3 min
Terrorism 17th century style
In the last post, Hide and Seek in Moorgate, I relayed the story of the run up to the English Civil War and how five members of...
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Steve Matthews
- Nov 28, 2022
- 3 min
Political Assassination in Belgravia
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an...
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Steve Matthews
- Nov 25, 2022
- 4 min
Argyll Robertson Pupils
It’s a chilly mid morning in November 1883 and you have just sat down at the table to enjoy a morning coffee in your flat at number ten...
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Steve Matthews
- Nov 11, 2022
- 4 min
Taken At The Flood
The Dominion Theatre stands on Tottenham Court Road. Construction of the theatre began in March 1928 with a design by W and TR Milburn...
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Steve Matthews
- Oct 28, 2022
- 3 min
‘ello Darlin’ show us…..
Good manners prohibit me from finishing the title, but what I’m striving for is the full repertoire of inuendo and verbal abuse that some...
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Steve Matthews
- Oct 3, 2022
- 1 min
“We are not amused”
The phrase is often attributed to Queen Victoria and has passed into common usage to note perceived strait-laced stuffiness, bolstering...
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Steve Matthews
- Sep 23, 2022
- 7 min
The quack will see you now
Medieval medicine and it’s practitioners get a rather bad press, Quackery neatly wrapping the whole issue into an understandable term....
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Steve Matthews
- Sep 5, 2022
- 6 min
Clerkenwell
Today’s Clerkenwell is popular with creative firms and dotted with smart apartment blocks in converted warehouses. It has many good...
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Steve Matthews
- Aug 12, 2022
- 4 min
The Bridge of Sighs
So, you have the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, then there’s the one in Oxford and another in Cambridge. I counted another twelve in Europe...
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Steve Matthews
- Jul 29, 2022
- 4 min
“Lord have mercy upon me, I am killed”
Last week I posted about my failure to check out some details with regards to an audio tour I was in the process of publishing and how it...
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Steve Matthews
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min
Ready, aim, fire!
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...
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Steve Matthews
- Jul 3, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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Steve Matthews
- Jun 27, 2022
- 3 min
“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...
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Steve Matthews
- Jun 25, 2022
- 1 min
Sunny Saturday morning at Charing Cross
Six Word Saturday #6WS #Death #History #London
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Steve Matthews
- Jun 17, 2022
- 3 min
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,...
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Steve Matthews
- Jun 3, 2022
- 2 min
Queen Rat
As you may have read in my last few posts I’ve been looking at all things subterranean, the London Underground, the sewers and lost...
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Steve Matthews
- Apr 15, 2022
- 2 min
The Philpot Lane Mice
Question: What is the smallest piece of public art within the City of London? To answer that question let me take you back to the 1860s...
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