by walklondonadming | Jan 1, 2021 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Gerri Gray @boredpanda.com The last public beheading in London took place on Tower Hill in 1747, a tradition that dates back to 1381 when Simon of Sudbury the Archbishop of Canterbury was hacked to death by an angry mob as part of the Peasant’s...
by walklondonadming | Jan 1, 2021 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Gerri Gray @boredpanda.com The toppling of the recent statues in response to the Black Lives Matter campaign has highlighted the difficult decisions society and authorities often make when dealing with controversial and political issues. The...
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 | 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...
by walklondonadming | Nov 16, 2020 | virtual tours
Image courtesy of Wikiart The third in our series of tours concentrates on Alfred Sisley, perhaps the least known of the Impressionists and yet the only one who stayed loyal to the aesthetic qualities of Impressionism for his whole career. In the summer of 1874 Sisley...