Monopoly Monday #2: the Go ! Square

So we are looking at the Go ! square here.  Equidistant between Mayfair and Old Kent Rd. I thought therefore it would be interesting to see what was equidistant between Mayfair and Old Kent Rd in real life. However Mayfair is a whole area not just one street and the Old Kent Rd is a […]

Virtual Tours

Online Virtual Tours are a great way to get some of the flavour of the experience of a walking tour but from the comfort of your living room. Private Virtual Tours Any of my “In Real Life” Walking tours can be presented as an online Virtual Tour: maybe for a special occasion, a corporate event […]

Monopoly Mondays – #1 The Story

It’s the first Monopoly MONDAY ! The first in a regular series of blogs using the Monopoly board as a vehicle (a racing car, a ship, a train ?) for some fun stories about London. The great family board game Monopoly – which has caused more family fall outs than religion and politics combined (or […]

Postman’s Park King Edward St, London EC1A 7BT

What links Barack Obama, Jude Law and Eric Clapton to Postman’s Park !? Let me explain….. Postman’s Park in the City of London gets its name from the former Post Office buildings around here and in fact up until 1937 the nearby Tube Station at St Paul’s used to be named “Post Office Station” ! […]