One lump or two
Looking back at my ramblings I do seem to have written a fair few regarding drinks, whether they be alcoholic or just restorative and...
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Steve Matthews
- Jun 16
- 4 min
Better than a curate’s egg
Don’t know about you, but my go to in the pub snack department is the good old pork scratchin’, nothing better with a pint. I’ve had a...
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Steve Matthews
- Feb 10
- 2 min
Jessie Matthews and the Brontosaurus
Probably best I explain from the beginning, Jessie Matthews was an actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career...
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Steve Matthews
- Dec 16, 2022
- 5 min
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting…..stolen!
I came across a seasonal tale recently, one that Charles Dickens if he’d been alive at the time might have woven into one of his stories...
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Steve Matthews
- Dec 3, 2022
- 1 min
Who Me? No I’m just fat
Six Word Saturday The Pregnant Man, 40 Chancery Lane WC2A Once the private drinking establishment of the advertising agency Saatchi &...
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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
- Sep 2, 2022
- 4 min
A tale of two halves
Do you sometimes get that feeling? The one where you know something is just not quite right, but you can’t put your finger on why. It...
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Steve Matthews
- Aug 26, 2022
- 6 min
Greek Street, Then and Now
Greek Street, Soho I’ve always found Greek Street in Soho to be a bit of an oasis, if a slightly shabby one when compared to some of it’s...
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Steve Matthews
- Jul 30, 2022
- 1 min
Wrapped up just like a parcel
Six Word Saturday The Hoop & Grapes Farringdon Street. The Hoop and Grapes was built in 1721 on part of the historic burial grounds of St...
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Steve Matthews
- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
I’ve just added the City of London Schedule of works and road closures website to my favourites. Not exactly bed time reading, but as I...
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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
- Apr 1, 2022
- 2 min
Puggy Booth
Now there’s a name to go by. A tough Georgian bare knuckle pugilist, or a renown Victorian cricketer known for stubbornly occupying his...
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Steve Matthews
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
A baby, but no bath water
John Strype Whilst rooting about in A Survey Of The Cities Of London and Westminster written by John Strype in the 1720s for some...
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Steve Matthews
- Mar 11, 2022
- 2 min
It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
You may remember dear reader that on Monday I came clean about my recent book buying binge? Well another tome has just landed with a...
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Steve Matthews
- Feb 10, 2022
- 2 min
“Pssst, do ya fancy a freebie?”
“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”. A little misleading perhaps, as lunches free or otherwise are not contained in this post,...
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Steve Matthews
- Jan 23, 2022
- 1 min
Heritage
One Word Sunday There has been a pub at this location since 1538, which burnt down during the Great Fire in 1666. It was one of the first...
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Steve Matthews
- Jan 14, 2022
- 3 min
Getting it right
Pedant: (noun) A person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules. I’m afraid I’m one of those people who shouts at the...
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Steve Matthews
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
Do two Doves make a Dule?
Dule: Collective noun for a group of Doves. It’s funny how things creep up on you. I’d finished writing my last post about the book...
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Steve Matthews
- Jan 3, 2022
- 6 min
ABC of City of London Wards
This is the fifth post about the wards that make up the the City of London. These links will take you to the post about Aldersgate,...
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