Tag Archives: London

The Coronavirus and me

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

Like almost everyone else, I’ve been watching the Coronavirus do its stuff from the last weeks of 2019 up to the present day and even though I don’t yet have it; it has affected me quite badly. As a tour … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, London, News, Opinion | Tagged Asthma, Coronavirus, CoronavirusUK, Corvid19, hoarders, London, Self Sacrifice, supermarkets, toilet roll | 17 Comments

The Coal Posts of London and Hertfordshire

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

Almost opposite the hotel that I’m staying in at the moment is this white post below. It is an old Coal Post and is around 140 years old and it goes back to a time when coal entering London was … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, history, Uncategorized | Tagged Canals, Coal, Coal Duty Market, Coal Post, County of Hertfordshire, London, Trade, Watford | 3 Comments

The secret green huts of London

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

They are an icon of London; not as famous as those famous red symbols such a telephone boxes, post boxes, double decker buses or soldiers on guard and they are certainly less common than the iconic London black taxis but … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, history, Life, London, Travel | Tagged Black Taxi, Bloomsbury, food, London, London Taxi | 2 Comments

War-Time Panic And The British Pet Massacre Of 1939.

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

There are many things that Britons have been labelled. Napoleon said we were a nation of shopkeepers, he likely meant it as an insult. We’re also famously a nation of gardeners and compared to most others, animal lovers. Perhaps it … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, London, WW2 | Tagged 1939, Animals, British Pet Massacre, London, Pets, The Blitz, war, WW2 | 1 Comment

The Roman Wall in an Underground London Car Park

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

In those few days between Christmas and New Years Day when it seems I am about the only person at work in London, I gave myself extra time to get into the city before meeting my tourists. Normally busy … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, London, Ye Olde England Tours | Tagged Archeology, history, holidays, London, Roman, Roman Wall, walking tours | 1 Comment

Finding the ruins of Whitefriars beneath the streets of London

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

Most people have heard of that very busy part of London known as Blackfriars but fewer know of Whitefriars. It should be said that the colour here is nothing at all relating to the skin of the friars but rather … Continue reading →

Posted in history, Life, London | Tagged Carmelites, church, Fleet Street, London, ruins, White Friars, Whitefriars | 2 Comments

Station Squabble – A fist fight between two London mice!

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

You don’t have to go to far on my blog to find some of the tough and murky history of East London. Whatever else you have to look out for in the East-End, even I had presumed the mice and … Continue reading →