footprintsoflondon.bsky.social
Quality guided London walks by & for those who #LoveLondon delivered with care, professionalism, insight and enthusiasm. @footprintsoflondon - Where Londoners Walk
👤 Joined on 20 November 2024
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@footprintsoflondon.bsky.socialJoin me Tues 20 @2pm & discover how #Covent #Garden became a hub for artists leading eventually to the the creation of the Royal Academy. #Turner #Hogarth #Reynalds #Hayman #Rolandson. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-to... @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social @londonhistorians.bsky.social @londonist.com
Show PostSailing ships with 100s of workers aboard, living for years away from home. Seamen - the maritime working class — men, women and children - were a first large group of wage labourers. Totally Thames Festival, Rotherhithe, Sat 19 Sept. thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/jac...
Show PostThe extraordinary history of one of London's most cosmic monuments, the one we used to call the Post Office Tower: www.onlondon.co.uk/john-vane-li.... Includes rum babas and bombs. #london
Show PostTo the law 'disorderly' meant vagrant, immoral, disruptive. Poor women worked in the street selling used things - clothes, wigs, pots. And they sold sex, maybe picked pockets. How else were they meant to survive with no jobs available? #TotallyThamesFestival thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/dis...
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