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Footprints of London Footprints of London provides unusual and interesting walks across London, and online virtual tours a

Footprints of London started out as a group of guides who were studying at the University of Westminster. We all loved working together so decided to set up Footprints of London. We felt that the existing London walking tours, while good, only covered a small part of London's amazing history - there was so much more to talk about. Footprints of London has grown, with more guides joining, however t

he idea remains the same. All our guides talk about a subject that they are passionate about. The walks are researched and written by the guides themselves and all the guides really love sharing their enthusiasms with people who come on the walks. See http://footprintsoflondon.com for the latest list of walks. You can read our reviews here https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d3742632-Reviews-Footprints_of_London-London_England.html

"Such foolswe are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven onlyknows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, ...
30/10/2024

"Such foolswe are, she thought, crossing Victoria
Street. For Heaven onlyknows why one loves it
so, how one sees it so, making it up,building it
round one, tumbling it, creating it every
momentafresh; but the veriest frumps, the most
dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink
their downfall) do the same; can't bedealt with,
she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that
very reason: they love life" Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway.

Picture of Victoria Street from when the book was written. I'll be following the route Mrs Dalloway takes in the book, talking about 1920s London and the book on my walk on Friday.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour-mrs-dalloways-day-tickets-1034311171557

Footprints of London Walks in November - https://mailchi.mp/c77594a036eb/g3q269ptwv-9161549
27/10/2024

Footprints of London Walks in November - https://mailchi.mp/c77594a036eb/g3q269ptwv-9161549

Your guides to London Footprints of London is a London guided tours company with a difference; we're owned by our guides, all our guides are qualified and accredited and all our guided walks are researched and written by the guides leading them. Guided tours by and for those who love London delivere...

Illustrated London News drawing of St Peter's Italian Church which opened in 1863 to serve the growing population of Ita...
26/10/2024

Illustrated London News drawing of St Peter's Italian Church which opened in 1863 to serve the growing population of Italian people who had settled in Saffron Hill. The church has a statue of a different saint in each alcove - each representing a city in Northern Italy so hopefully everyone felt at home in the church. I'll be telling the story of this community in my walk on Friday https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1004332324017

Thanks to Londonist and Matt Brown for listing my Saturday's migrations walk that shows the overlaps and similarities in...
14/10/2024

Thanks to Londonist and Matt Brown for listing my Saturday's migrations walk that shows the overlaps and similarities in different groups' travels to work in London. Holborn backstreets nice and empty on weekends. Cittee of York at the end. Booking link in comment.

Londoners mostly avoid Essex -- prejudice against it is heavily entrenched. A good consequence of this is the scarcity o...
30/09/2024

Londoners mostly avoid Essex -- prejudice against it is heavily entrenched. A good consequence of this is the scarcity of other walkers! Rochford, less than an hour's journey from Liverpool Street Station, has a good-looking townscape, craggy-wild and beautiful marsh and river plus it was the Hotbed of Protestantism! Creative rebels abound. 12 Oct: 2 guides, me and Rob Smith.

Gorgeous marsh landscape, old houses and bloody Tudor history in Rochford, a hotbed of Nonconformism now only an hour from London.

Footprints of London Walks in October - https://mailchi.mp/8d5a9548f85b/g3q269ptwv-6425600
28/09/2024

Footprints of London Walks in October - https://mailchi.mp/8d5a9548f85b/g3q269ptwv-6425600

Your guides to London Footprints of London is a London guided tours company with a difference; we're owned by our guides, all our guides are qualified and accredited and all our guided walks are researched and written by the guides leading them. Guided tours by and for those who love London delivere...

When I'd read everything about life in the Middle Ages and still knew nothing about working women I moved to illuminated...
24/09/2024

When I'd read everything about life in the Middle Ages and still knew nothing about working women I moved to illuminated manuscripts, and there began to put it all together. This piece from last year tells more and the walk's on again this Sunday.

A guided walk focusing on the Medieval Female Proletariat, based on research into poorer women who scratched out a living in 14th century Southwark.

22/09/2024

Who wants to go to Essex? Paraphrasing Thatcher's dissing of Hackney I here advocate a visit to Rochford. Even if you don't find the landscape beautiful, as many of us do, the story of this town is riveting, showing how Dissension and Non-Conformism refused to accept the state's hierarchical religion, put in their own democratic customs and in come famous cases left to found a New England. A walk co-guided with Rob Smith, booking in link, here my writing on it last autumn. https://www.lauraagustin.com/who-wants-to-go-to-essex-a-walk-in-rochford-town-and-by-the-river-roach

Come to the 14th-century Southwark riverside to meet 6 working women: alewife, scullery maid, laundress, brothel pr*****...
20/09/2024

Come to the 14th-century Southwark riverside to meet 6 working women: alewife, scullery maid, laundress, brothel pr******te, victualler and huckster. Most had more than one of these jobs, of course.

How do we know how poor women lived in the Middle Ages when historians have ignored them? Walk the Thames and meet 6 medieval working women.

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Geese at Shoeburyness, at the mouth of the River Thames. Join Rob on a series of walks going East along the Thames from Tower Bridge to Shoeburyness starting in January with The Long Good Friday Revisited See https://footprintsoflondon.com/rob-smith for details

Yeading Brook in London Borough of Hillingdon flows through a beautiful bit of meadows which provides a corridor for wildlife in between built up areas.

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