London Discovery Tours

15/08/2024

An East End resident, 1921.

15/08/2024

The Whitechapel hay market, 1927.

15/08/2024

Life in the East End, 1921.

15/08/2024

Berwick Street Market, early 1900s.

15/08/2024

Flower sellers on Whitechapel Road, late 1890s.

15/08/2024

A glimpse of the bygone East End.

14/08/2024

St Botolph's church, Aldgate High Street, 1890s.

14/08/2024

Bygone Aldgate High Street. Do you recognise any of the buildings?

14/08/2024

Looking into London's past.

14/08/2024

A bygone scene.

14/08/2024

The Whitechapel Hay Market.

21/04/2024

The Salvation Army Shelter, Great Peter Street, Westminster, 1910.

12/11/2023

My latest video delves into the mucky world of Victorian drains and plumbing.

In this video we look at the life and times of Mr. Thomas Crapper, the Chelsea plumber who became a true pioneer in the world of Victorian sanitary engineeri...

29/10/2023

A new video on the ghosts of the City of London. A Halloween special!

With Halloween almost upon us, we delve deep into the ghostly secrets of haunted London.With a history that stretches back through 2,000 years, is it any won...

16/10/2023

With Halloween almost upon us, I've been delving into a very strange haunting in west London.

The junction of Cambridge Gardens and St Mark's Road, in the North Kensington district of London, is the scene of one of the Capital's more unusual ghosts.In...

08/10/2023

My latest video takes a tour of the City of London then and now.

In this video you will embark upon a journey around the City of London to view ten locations in 1894, and then see those same locations as they are today.Beg...

07/10/2023

Stopping for a chat in the bygone East End.

02/10/2023

For my latest video I've been looking into the most haunted house in London, 50 Berkeley Square.

With the countdown to Halloween now under way, I want to begin October with a chiller of a ghostly tale.Number 50 Berkeley Square has long held the reputatio...

25/09/2023

My new video tells the story of the Cornhill Devils.

In this video we make our way to the heart of the City of London to take a stroll along Cornhill.At its eastern end stands the little church of St Peter Upon...

10/09/2023

My new video take a look at three monarchs who exploded!

Did you know that two English kings and one queen are reputed to have exploded in their coffins after death?In this video, we light the fuse on three bizarre...

30/08/2023

This Sunday, at 1.30pm my annual Great Fire of London walk will be setting off.

A walk that follows the Great Fire of London's trail of destruction through the heart of the medieval City.

17/05/2023

My latest video tells the tragic tale of Sweet F***y Adams.

My thanks to the Memories of Alton Hampshire website (https://www.facebook.com/memoriesofAltonHampshire/?locale=en_GB) for permission to use the photographs ...

17/04/2023

My latest video tells the story of The Wicked Bible.

The King James Version of the Bible was published in 1611 and was a landmark publication that has been described as, "one of the most important books in Engl...

05/03/2023

My latest video traces the history of the Aldgate Pump and exposes the myth of its being the "pump of death."

The Aldgate Pump stands at the convergence of Fenchurch Street, Leadenhall Street, and Aldgate. Traditionally, it has always been regarding as marking the po...

19/02/2023

My latest video tells the story of an 18th-century Highwayman, and of the stone that put the stone into Leytonstone.

In this video, you will venture out to the Green Man roundabout on the far eastern outskirts of London to discover the location of the stone that put the sto...

03/01/2023

My latest video takes a look at the memorial to Robert Balthrope, a slightly unusual monument that can be seen inside the church of St Bartholomew-the-Less.

In the church of St Bartholomew-the-Less, located on the grounds of St Bartholomew's Hospital, in London, there is a memorial to Robert Balthrope who enjoyed...

30/10/2022

My latest video, just in time for Halloween. visits the Viaduct Tavern, the most haunted pub in the City of London.

The Viaduct Tavern, at 126 Newgate Street, stands at the junction of Newgate Street and Giltspur Street.It was built between 1872 and 1875, and, since the la...

09/10/2022

My latest video tells of the ghost of William Terriss, the actor murdered in Maiden Lane in 1897.

A London ghost story that has it all. History, murder, and a chilling series of hauntings.On the 16th of December, 1897, William Terriss, one of the most pop...

04/09/2022

My latest video tells the story of the Hammersmith Ghost. https://youtu.be/N1bOiCNJU9c

In this video, I trace the history of the Hammersmith Ghost from its first appearance in 1803 through to the last time it materialised, in 1955.Throughout th...

29/08/2022

My latest video tells the story of the 1887 Spitalfields disaster. https://youtu.be/Qjs22Eu9hqI

On the night of Tuesday the 18th of January 1887, a benefit performance was being given at the Prince's Street Theatre. A capacity audience had squeezed into...