by walklondonadming | Oct 7, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Gerri Gray @boredpanda.com In comparison to our Victorian forebears we are able to make light of the inevitability of death using wit and humour. Up until the 1830s it was customary to remove corpses from existing graves to make way for new burials,...
by walklondonadming | Dec 22, 2020 | Blog
Hands across the ocean to my good friends in the USA! The 21st December, was the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts in 1620. Having arrived on the ship Mayflower they began to build what became known as the Plymouth...
by walklondonadming | Dec 1, 2020 | Blog
Recently I was asked by a private group in Washington DC to show the first tour in the series, In the Footsteps of the Impressionists, which was attended by 650 delegates! Wow! It seems people cannot get enough of the French Impressionists, on both sides of the Pond!...
by walklondonadming | Nov 16, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikiart The first in a series of four tours that follows in the footsteps of three French artists, when they came to London between 1870 and 1901, creating many of the seminal works that came to define the movement known as Impressionism. These tours...
by walklondonadming | Nov 16, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikiart The second tour follows in the footsteps of Camille Pissarro who lived in Norwood, a southeast suburb of London between 1870 and 1871, when the landscape was dominated by the engineering marvel of the Crystal Palace. Pissarro captured the...