Q: Who is the oldest manufacturer in the UK? Ring any bells? A: The Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Find out more about this East End institution from the people who make […]
Surrounded by road and rail traffic, the Three Mills Island is seen by commuters every day, and yet seems just out of reach. If you manage to find your way […]
Shirley in Croydon is home to one of London’s treasures. In 1854, when mills had reached the pinnacle of design, the Shirley Windmill was built here and it still stands […]
This podcast is no ‘windmill of your mind’… it’s the Windmill Theatre… brought back to life by Iris Chapple, a former singer, and Margaret Cooper, a former dancer at the […]
London is not just a city of industry, busy roads and people… this is a city where extinct animals and pickled beasts are hidden away in glass cabinets in our […]
From the theatres of Southwark to the hills of Sydenham, Edward Alleyn, the great actor of the English renaissance stage established a school in South London which, nearly 400 years later, […]
On Shakespeare’s birthday, I have put together a podcast about the two famous Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres in London: the Rose and the Globe. What was it, and what is […]
