The 38 to Clapton Pond

I hope you enjoy the pics on this photoblog, snapped as I make my way around London reading and researching my London Walks tours.  A London Walk costs £10 – £8 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all London Walks can be found at www.walks.com . Click HERE for a list of all my forthcoming London Walks Tours If you want to book me for a private London Walks tour get in touch by clicking the @ button below.

A London Walk costs £10 – £8 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all London Walks can be found at www.walks.com . Click HERE for a list of all my forthcoming London Walks Tours If you want to book me for a private London Walks tour get in touch by clicking the @ button below.

Snapped last Thursday on the way home from leading my Kensington tour for London Walks.

From the National Gallery's entrance way mosaic by Boris Anrep.

Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road Underground.

Street named for Sherlock Muse, bitter arch-rival of the more famous Sherlock Holmes…

Yesterday's post featured the sad sight of a dead pub in Fortis Green, North London . Did it die of natural causes? Or something more sinister? Perhaps we'll never know – because the cop shop across the road has gone the same way as the pub… Whodunnit?

RIP The Alexandra.

Kingsley Amis once quipped that the three most depressing words in the English language are "Red or white?" "Red or brown?" on the other hand is a much more cheerful proposition…

A twofer today - two former public toilets turned into cafés. Toulous in Hampstead Garden Suburb… … and LooLoo's in Putney… Quite flushed with mirth I am. Tee hee.

R.I.P Cooke's Pie & Mash shop on The Goldhawk Road. Famed as the caff in Quadrophenia, it is much missed.

It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint… Legendary bikers' hang-out on the North Circular near Stonebridge.

It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint… Welcome to Ken's Cafe, Green Street, where Bobby Moore and his West Ham mates taked tactics after training.

It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint. I'm starting on Caledonian Road… … the caff opposite Pentonville Prison. Now look at the name again.

John Milton London born-and-bred, as well as London-born ON Bread Street. His CV includes the job description Prose Polemicist. One seldom sees opening advertised for prose polemicists these days. There's no money it it, I s'pose.

The guys at beloved East Finchley store Tony's Continental replaced their sign recently, unearthing this gem from the 70s in the process.

On the roof of John Lewis dept store…

The Deep South is famed for its music… Elephant & Castle.

"Daddy, why's there a big red cupboard in the middle of the street?" An instructional scene on Clerkenwell Green as a dad tells his daughter how we used to live.