Snaprails Random Things

27th January 2023 To the best of my knowledge I had never in almost six decades stepped inside the Tower of London. A Christmas present of ...

A recent Twitter post by Paul Whitewick about an early road atlas reminded me that on my map shelf (What? Don't you have one?) are some...

Sunday 12th January 2020 While looking at the map around Clifton Suspension Bridge something else of interest sprang off the page. In S...

Saturday 11th January 2020 Bored on a Friday night in the pub and with a couple of days off work I got to wondering where I could go an...

Monday 9th December 2019 The latest exhibition at Clerkenwell's London Metropolitan Archives deals with images of the capital from ...

20th October 2019 I took a drive around the M25 to Bexley on Sunday, not the nicest road trip but rail replacement buses made going by tra...

 Foragers of the Foreshore Wed 25 - Sun 29 Sep, 11am - 6pm  Bargehouse, Barge House Street, SE1 9PH (behind the Oxo Tower) Free Entry...

Saturday 21st September 2019 Between two houses in a suburban street in Woking, Surrey behind a metal gate is a low Art Deco building. ...

Sunday 8th September 2019 Take cover at once! In Stockport near Manchester you could take cover in the public Air Raid Shelter carv...

Friday 6th September 2019 I had few firm plans for what to see while I was in Manchester but this was one of them. In a former Edwardian p...

1st September 2019 Gunnersbury Park lies in the London Borough of Hounslow , only about 5 miles from where I was born but I'd never ...