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Tag Archives: Stanmore
Walking in a winter wonderland!
I don’t know about you but I love snow, especially when I don’t have to drive in it. The sad thing is that London doesn’t get a great deal of snow any more. It used to even in the 1980’s … Continue reading
Posted in Life, London, Photography
Tagged Bushey Heath, Grims Dyke, Snow, Stanmore, The Rutts, walks, Weather
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Getting up to mischief in some old woods
Some of you might remember back towards the beginning of the pandemic I wrote a lengthy series of posts on my new neighbour having gone exploring when everyone else was confined indoors. One of my posts was on Grim’s Dyke, … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, London, Travel
Tagged Gilbert and Sullivan, Grims Ditch, Grims Dyke, Grims Dyke Hotel, Harrow, Stanmore, W S Gilbert, walks, Woods
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Coronavirus Diary 62 – I love it when a plan comes together!
Some of you may remember that in the first days when everyone lock-down, I took the opportunity to go outside having already been shielding for a month or so. I went off to fully explore my new neighbourhood and … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Coronavirus, Coronavirus Diary, Diary, Private Tours, Stanmore, Tours, walking tours, Ye Olde England Tours
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My newest tour – Stanmore Circular Private Walking Tour
Finally I have finished putting together my newest tour, Stanmore Circular Private Walking Tour. It’s all ready available for booking on the Ye Olde England Tours Website and on popular sites such as Viator and Trip Advisor. It’s all entirely … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Travel, Uncategorized, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged London, Stanmore, Stanmore Walking Tour, walking tours, Ye Olde England Tours
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My big Coronavirus Opening! – St Johns Church in Stanmore.
Last Monday was the first real big step forward in the restoration of normal life in the U.K. with many of the non-essential opening for the first time in months. Of course I couldn’t imagine anything worse than going in … Continue reading
Coronavirus Diary 51 – Social Distancing with baby frogs
I never quite know what I will find on my walks and my walk on Friday was particularly eventful. First of all down a country lane I came across a car with its hazard lights flashing and being all prepared … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged Bentley Priory, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Diary, Covid19, Frogs, Nature, Social Distancing, Stanmore, walks
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The Abercorn Arms
If you remember on Monday I wrote on my walk to the home of the esteemed Edward Adrian Wilsonwho died at Antartica with Captain Scott. One of the reasons his house was located where it was at all was because … Continue reading
Posted in history, London
Tagged Captain Scott, Edward Adrian Wilson, Napoleon, Pubs, Stanmore, The Abercorn
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Visiting the home of Edward Adrian Wilson – a forgotten hero who died with Captain Scott of the Antarctic.
Every now and then I write a post not quite realising the scope it will take on, perhaps once or twice a year I investigate something and it gives me something to reflect on all year and this is what … Continue reading
Posted in geography, history
Tagged 73 Stanmore Hill, Antartica, Art, Captain Scott, Diary, Edward Adrian Wilson, Explorer, South Pole, Stanmore, Wales
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Visiting the grave of W.S Gilbert – the very model of a modern Major-General
One of the main things I waned to find on my walk I wrote about on Monday was the grave of W S Gilbert. I’m used to finding obscure graves amongst hundreds thousands in cemeteries a mile or more in … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, history, Life, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Cemetery, Diary, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pirates of Penzance, Stanmore, W S Gilbert, walks
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The ruined church of St John the Evangelist in Stanmore
With the never ending lock-down being met with never ending warm weather, I decided to go and join up the dots of my new Stanmore tour which I actually worked out dreamt up whilst writing my blog posts on the … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, London, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Cemetery, church, Coronavirus Diary, Diary, ruins, Social Distancing, St John The Evangelist, Stanmore
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