Last week, two 3-tonne lock gates arrived on the Regent’s Canal, to be craned into place near the Islington Tunnel. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/rep...

Celebrate Diverse London in a series of walking & virtual tours. We'll explore the ethnic, religious & gender heritage of one of the world's most culturally rich cities. Book these walks & more at footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @capitalwalks.bsky.social @walkingtalkinglon.bsky.social

@islingtonwalks.bsky.social on #LondonLocalGuidingDay one of two groups setting off for the last walk of the day.

A nice surprise to stumble on the Cambridge home of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Henry Fawcett and Philippa Fawcett the other day.

Born at Chingford Rectory 160 years ago #OTD 15 Aug 1865, Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake was the first British woman to qualify as Master of Surgery. She was lead surgeon and later consulting surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. 📷 OS map section c.1870. Portrait commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lo...

Anniversary of the death of #WilliamBlake on this day 1827 has been nicely marked in Bunhill Fields. Seems there’s a commemoration planned for Saturday. @islingtonwalks.bsky.social

What are you up to next Friday? Why not join us in researching a woman (or women) born in 1819…. Full details on our website www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819

#Free 1 hour #guidedwalks with our vice chair Joanna aka @westminsterwalks.bsky.social along part of the #NorthChingford Heritage Trail this Sunday 6th July at 11 and 2. Part of the #Heritage Festival. Please book in advance here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/north-chin...

In St John's Wood adventurous unmarried women like George Eliot were called Disgraceful by Respectable Society. Nearby WT Stead created the 1st mediatic sex-trafficking scandal when he 'bought' Eliza Armstrong. Why were some females victims and others whores? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disgracefu...

Innes Hope Pearse, co-founder of Peckham Experiment which researched what creates well-being and good health. Members of the local community were invited to join and had access to leisure & exercise facilities. They underwent medical checks and patients were actively involved in any treatment.

Fanny Wilkinson didn’t get to design many gardens around Bloomsbury. Red Lion Square in Holborn is one of the few nearby. Very good to see the recently installed plaque there.

Philippa (brilliant mathematician, inspiration for #williammorris) one of the least known Garrett women. Harold Steward Rathbone’s portrait now in the @morrisgallery gallery used to be at 2 Gower Street, Join Sue’s #bloomsbury walk on Friday afternoon to find out more bit.ly/4deBwNL

What an interesting and informative presentation for @islingtonwalks.bsky.social by @ritualmarks.bsky.social this evening.

This week's new Substack post: Hornsey Town Hall, Crouch End: ‘the quintessential English modern public building of the decade’ municipaldreams.substack.com/p/hornsey-to...

1/3 Children’s writer E (Edith) Nesbit whose books include The Railway Children & The Treasure Seekers was born in Kennington 1858. The family moved around when she was young but later settled in Lewisham. She married journalist Hubert Bland in 1880.

Peggy Knight MBE (1920-2004). Served in Special Operations Executive. 'A young girl of an altogether exceptional courage', she received Croix de Guerre 1947. Lived at 88 James Lane, Leyton & worked at ASEA, Fulbourne Road, Walthamstow. See feature by @wfwalkingpast.bsky.social is.gd/y9Fqg4 #VEDay80

Sue is looking forward to leading the walk on Fanny Wilkinson’s Gren Lung for London on 7th June. londongardenstrust.org/whatson/lond...

Lots of great walks from @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social but it’s Sue @capitalwalks.bsky.social who’s in #Barking on Saturday.

Newscuttings from our current Searchroom display celebrating the 60th anniversary of the creation of the London Borough of Waltham Forest #OTD 1 April 1965. The illustration shows the new mayor of Waltham Forest joining former mayors of Chingford, Leyton & Walthamstow to mark this historic occasion.

This week at footprintsoflondon.com we explore Putney, Walthamstow, Crystal Palace and #soho & and have the first of our Diverse #London walks. Join us for one of our real and virtual tours @robssmith.bsky.social @westminsterwalks.bsky.social

Fascinating research by @westminsterwalks.bsky.social exploring the origin of the name of Walthamstow's Orford House, and possible link with Orford House in Ugley, Essex.

This week's post looks at Lambeth's interwar tenement blocks, built to house the poorer working class more cheaply and nearer to their place of work: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/lambeths-i...

So helpful for planning a literary walk if the author marks a fictional location on a real map! I expect it helped that when Michael Sadler wrote Forlorn Sunset who was working at his publisher.

Sue’s walk on Sunday explore the rich history of radical theatre in Camden from the Actresses Franchise League and pacifist plays of WW1 to agitprop in the 1970s www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

And good to see her included in the mural on Old Church Road.

High Road, Leyton in late 19th cent. Rosa Lewis née Ovenden (1867-1952), lived here when young. Entering domestic service aged 12, she became a highly esteemed society cook. A successful businesswoman, she bought The Cavendish, Jermyn Street, London in 1902, & ran the hotel until mid 1940s. #WHM2025

Enjoying exploring this. Discovered that pupils of #Leytonstone High School for Girls -now LeytonstoneSch - contributed £66 (almost £4000 at today’s value) to Scottish Women’s Hospital in WW1 and their Gym teacher served with them in Syria. @lbwfarchives.bsky.social

And a decade earlier the birthplace of two other notable Leytonstone women: Louisa and Harriet Martindale. You can discover more about them at Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society meeting on 19th March.

The Three Towers Challenge - Climb all 3 - Canonbury Tower, St Mary’s Church Tower + the Cally Clock Tower - and receive a free certificate to prove you have scaled the heights of #Islington! Why not start this Saturday with St Mary’s Church Tower? Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/islington-...

Some great literary walks including some from us.

Thank you for our latest great reviews on Tripadvisor. This week's walks inc #Kensington, #Bloomsbury and even a virtual tour along the Northumberland coast!!! Book at footprintsoflondon.com @capitalwalks.bsky.social @robssmith.bsky.social Show more

🚨 Applications open to produce a ‘Cabinet of Curiosity’ public art piece exploring the pre-industrial history of the Lower River Lea. Funded by the Heritage Fund. 📧 [email protected] #opencall #artistopportunity #publicart #londonartists #creativeopportunity #artistcall #newham #heritagefund

@islingtonwalks enjoying Lester Hillman’s Well Trodden walk from St Chad’s to Clerks’ Well via the Fleet

Just one place left!

Lots of great literary walk here. We’ve got walks in Waterloo, Bloomsbury, Highgate, Fitzrovia and Kings Cross.

There's a building partly of old bricks on what I take to be the site of Leytonstone Assembly Room

The book 'Unravelling the Yarn, Zoë Hart Dyke née Bond and the Leyton Silk Road' by Claire Weiss, was published by Leyton & Leytonstone Historical Society. It is available in our Searchroom.

Zoë, Lady Hart Dyke died 50 years ago today. A pioneer of silk farming in Britain, she was born at 9 Manor Rd, Leyton 1896. Her silk farm at Lullingstone Castle in Kent was internationally renowned, providing silk for Coronation robes of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952. 📷 Coronation portrait is.gd/rV5O62

Snowdrops in Lismore Circus, Gospel Oak. #NationalSnowdropDay

Seems appropriate that this infill project in Kiln Place, only a stone’s throw from Neave Brown’s Fleet Road ( now Dunboyne) Estate, won RIBA’s Neave Brown award for Peter Barber in 2022 as well as the MJLong prize for Project Lead Alice Brownfield.

Explore #London with footprintsoflondon.com this weekend when we'll follow in the steps of Van Gogh, meet the navvies of Primrose Hill, #Harringay's suffragettes, the people of #Marylebone & more @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social @robssmith.bsky.social @capitalwalks.bsky.social

This week's #London walks: Primrose Hill & the workers who built it, Churchill, #Marylebone, the suffragettes of #Harringay, & we go up and down the City Rd & more! BOOK AT footprintsoflondon.com @robssmith.bsky.social @nakedanthropolo.bsky.social @capitalwalks.bsky.social

Until family historians discovered their many convict-ancestors Australian history was said to begin with 'free settlers'. This walk tells how two Islington girl thieves came to be spared death and sentenced to Botany Bay in 1825. @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...

'Family Sketchbook a hundred years ago' (1964) gives a selection of Ellen Buxton's sketches depicting family life in Leytonstone, 1864-66. Ellen (b.1848) grew up in a large evangelical family. Her vivid sketches include a lovely image of Christmas candles for tea in the nursery 1865. #bookofthemonth

Mary Fletcher died #OTD 1815. Born 1739 in Leytonstone, she lived at Forest House. Rebelling against her wealthy family, she became a Methodist preacher. Est Christian community at The Cedars, Leytonstone, 1763. 📷 Chapman & Andre map 1777. Forest House, VHM. Portrait is.gd/OPKbeX Plaque is.gd/zARTBr

Municipal treasure of the day: a badge featuring the coat of arms of the former Essex municipal Borough of Leyton. The gold and sable “lion rampant” holding the cross-staff in the crest survived into the coat of arms of successor authority LB Waltham Forest (although the lion became “passant”).

New on Substack, my post on the Aspen House Open Air School, Lambeth: doing ‘the world of good’ ... municipaldreams.substack.com/p/aspen-hous...

If you commute on the Suffragette line here's some inspiration for the week ahead! To mark the new name, we're highlighting some Waltham Forest locations linked with women activists, politicians, & women who enabled others to take part in public life. 📷 Blackhorse Road station ©Vestry House Museum.

Leyton Midland Road Overground station has its new signage in time for tomorrow’s walk. Walking Tour - Suffragette Line : Leyton Midland; fields to firsts www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to...