What are you up to next Friday? Why not join us in researching a woman (or women) born in 1819โฆ. Full details on our website
www.fewforgottenwomen.com/1819
04.07.2025 17:32 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4
#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...
04.07.2025 07:09 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Disgraceful Women of Old St John's Wood
In St John's Wood Alternative Lifestyles were the norm, but nearby Lisson Grove saw the first sex-slave scandal, of young Eliza Armstrong.
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...
29.05.2025 19:55 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
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.
30.05.2025 10:33 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Fanny Wilkinson didnโt 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.
17.05.2025 15:19 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Portrait of Philippa Garrett Fawcett as a young woman
Philippa (brilliant mathematician, inspiration for #williammorris) one of the least known Garrett women. Harold Steward Rathboneโs portrait now in the @morrisgallery gallery used to be at 2 Gower Street, Join Sueโs #bloomsbury walk on Friday afternoon to find out more bit.ly/4deBwNL
15.05.2025 10:56 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
What an interesting and informative presentation for @islingtonwalks.bsky.social by @ritualmarks.bsky.social this evening.
13.05.2025 19:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Exterior view of building
Entrance lobby
First floor lobby
Council chamber
This week's new Substack post: Hornsey Town Hall, Crouch End: โthe quintessential English modern public building of the decadeโ
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/hornsey-to...
03.05.2025 05:53 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
1/3 Childrenโs 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.
03.05.2025 07:12 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Aerial photograph of Fulbourne Road, Walthamstow, c.1930.
๐ท From VHM collection, available in our Searchroom.
OS map section showing James Lane, Leyton, c.1939.
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
03.05.2025 08:47 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Lots of great walks from @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social but itโs Sue @capitalwalks.bsky.social whoโs in #Barking on Saturday.
08.04.2025 14:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Newscuttings relating to the newly created London Borough of Waltham Forest in April 1965.
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.
01.04.2025 09:45 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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
01.04.2025 08:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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.
01.04.2025 07:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Interwar tenement block
Interwar tenement block
Interwar tenement block
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...
22.03.2025 09:47 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
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.
21.03.2025 11:02 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Walking Tour - Radical Theatre: Kings Cross to Kingsway
Explore some of Camden's rich history of radical theatre over the last 100 years .
Sueโs 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...
21.03.2025 08:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
And good to see her included in the mural on Old Church Road.
19.03.2025 18:46 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Photograph of High Road, Leyton in late 19th century.
From VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom.
Portrait photograph of Rosa Lewis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_lewis.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
High Road, Leyton in late 19th cent. Rosa Lewis nรฉe 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
18.03.2025 08:16 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Beatrice Stempel. I found the donations recorded in Common Cause. Saw she was โnow acting as clerk to Mrs Haverfieldโ and then searched census, electoral and military records for more.
16.03.2025 20:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Enjoying exploring this. Discovered that pupils of #Leytonstone High School for Girls -now LeytonstoneSch - contributed ยฃ66 (almost ยฃ4000 at todayโs value) to Scottish Womenโs Hospital in WW1 and their Gym teacher served with them in Syria. @lbwfarchives.bsky.social
16.03.2025 10:01 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
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.
11.03.2025 14:59 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Some great literary walks including some from us.
10.03.2025 09:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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
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10.03.2025 09:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
๐จ Applications open to produce a โCabinet of Curiosityโ public art piece exploring the pre-industrial history of the Lower River Lea. Funded by the Heritage Fund.
๐ง bella@codydock.org.uk
#opencall #artistopportunity #publicart #londonartists #creativeopportunity #artistcall #newham #heritagefund
02.03.2025 10:59 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
@islingtonwalks enjoying Lester Hillmanโs Well Trodden walk from St Chadโs to Clerksโ Well via the Fleet
02.03.2025 16:34 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Just one place left!
16.02.2025 08:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
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Writer, novelist, journalist, author of Pilgrimage.
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Journalist + immigrant. Telling stories & building media orgs where people love to work. World affairs & womenโs history nerd. ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ช๐บ - understandably mistaken for ๐บ๐ธ - once ๐ฆ๐บ & ๐ฐ๐ญ - forever MIZ ๐ฏ
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Director, Museum of the Home.
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London Lifestyle Magazine covering The Arts, Eating Out, Travel and more.
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Developing a thriving community-led creative quarter and community gardens on the banks of the tidal Lea in East London www.codydock.org.uk
Love London, walking and photography. City of Westminster, Clerkenwell & Islington and City of London Guide, long time Archway resident.
Leyton Orient supporter based in North Hampshire. Walthamstow Avenue FC. Interested in London social history/architecture. Nature conservation and animal welfare. Walker, swimmer, CAMRA & bibliophile.
