Andy Taylor
@andyhammer.bsky.social
Clerkenwell & Islington Tour Guide; long-suffering WHU ⚒️ supporter; likes a bit of film, live music and known to occasionally partake of the odd tipple…
Book tickets: rb.gy/yq6akw
London On Foot, Eventbrite
Book tickets: rb.gy/yq6akw
London On Foot, Eventbrite
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Andy Taylor
@andyhammer.bsky.social
· Mar 21
A combination of dazzling sunshine and a wonderful group of people made for a lovely day out on Ribaldry, Radicals & Reform my guided tour of North Clerkenwell yesterday!
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We're back in May! What would you like to see? #hackney #history #heritage #festival @hackney-society.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
We're back in May! What would you like to see? #hackney #history #heritage #festival @hackney-society.bsky.social
This will be great!
Highly recommended to anyone interested in the dark underbelly of 19C Clerkenwell.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in the dark underbelly of 19C Clerkenwell.
Interested in London's Social History? Join me on a walk through Clerkenwell’s dark past: prisons, paupers, gangs and grim tales that shaped one of London’s most dangerous districts in the 19th Century #socialhistory #workingclasshistory #londonhistory #clerkenwell #guidedwalk #walkingtour
October 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This will be great!
Highly recommended to anyone interested in the dark underbelly of 19C Clerkenwell.
Highly recommended to anyone interested in the dark underbelly of 19C Clerkenwell.
Given the 💩 we’ve endured during the first couple of months of this season that was a definite improvement! ⚒️
September 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Given the 💩 we’ve endured during the first couple of months of this season that was a definite improvement! ⚒️
Fantastic night at the Mildmay Club yesterday!
Congratulations to everyone who helped put this great event together - bringing to life the moving stories of club members serving on the Western Front while tracking down the enigma that was club secretary Ralph Manley!
@hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social
Congratulations to everyone who helped put this great event together - bringing to life the moving stories of club members serving on the Western Front while tracking down the enigma that was club secretary Ralph Manley!
@hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Fantastic night at the Mildmay Club yesterday!
Congratulations to everyone who helped put this great event together - bringing to life the moving stories of club members serving on the Western Front while tracking down the enigma that was club secretary Ralph Manley!
@hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social
Congratulations to everyone who helped put this great event together - bringing to life the moving stories of club members serving on the Western Front while tracking down the enigma that was club secretary Ralph Manley!
@hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social
Fourth manager in 16 months… welcome to the circus Nuno… 🤦♂️⚒️🤡🎪
September 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Fourth manager in 16 months… welcome to the circus Nuno… 🤦♂️⚒️🤡🎪
Stick the date in your diary - loads of great guided walks across London - and they’re all free!
Unfortunately I can’t take part this year but took people out on this in 2024 and it was good fun so get yourself along there!
Unfortunately I can’t take part this year but took people out on this in 2024 and it was good fun so get yourself along there!
Reminder! Local London Guiding Day will be on Saturday 4 October! #Free #GuidedWalks in 5 areas of Central London.
🗓️Saturday 4th October. Hourly from 10-4.
Our walks start outside the Cowcross St exit, Farringdon Station. Book for ours here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/local-lond...
🗓️Saturday 4th October. Hourly from 10-4.
Our walks start outside the Cowcross St exit, Farringdon Station. Book for ours here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/local-lond...
September 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Stick the date in your diary - loads of great guided walks across London - and they’re all free!
Unfortunately I can’t take part this year but took people out on this in 2024 and it was good fun so get yourself along there!
Unfortunately I can’t take part this year but took people out on this in 2024 and it was good fun so get yourself along there!
Some great events coming up at the Mildmay Club over the next few weekends: mildmay.club
September 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Some great events coming up at the Mildmay Club over the next few weekends: mildmay.club
Unless we get some dynamism, some pace & power into our midfield this could be a rough old season… ⚒️
August 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Unless we get some dynamism, some pace & power into our midfield this could be a rough old season… ⚒️
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August 1848. Chartists meet daily in London to plan an uprising. Monday 7 August. Denny’s Coffee House, Great St Andrew’s Street
About 30 present. Allnutt, Bassett, Brewster, Cuffay, Donovan, Dowling, Fay, Lynch, Mullins, Payne, Ritchie, Rose, Thompson, Warry, Davis, Powell.
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About 30 present. Allnutt, Bassett, Brewster, Cuffay, Donovan, Dowling, Fay, Lynch, Mullins, Payne, Ritchie, Rose, Thompson, Warry, Davis, Powell.
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August 1848: Chartists meet daily to plan an armed rising in central London
Red Saunders August 1848: Chartists meet daily to plan an armed rising in central London It’s a part of London’s radical history Keir Starmer probably does not want to know about. Frustrated by pea…
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August 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
August 1848. Chartists meet daily in London to plan an uprising. Monday 7 August. Denny’s Coffee House, Great St Andrew’s Street
About 30 present. Allnutt, Bassett, Brewster, Cuffay, Donovan, Dowling, Fay, Lynch, Mullins, Payne, Ritchie, Rose, Thompson, Warry, Davis, Powell.
wp.me/p15p2Q-ciB
About 30 present. Allnutt, Bassett, Brewster, Cuffay, Donovan, Dowling, Fay, Lynch, Mullins, Payne, Ritchie, Rose, Thompson, Warry, Davis, Powell.
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Fri 15 Aug 12.30-2pm at
@thelondonarchives.bsky.social
Clerkenwell: A History in Maps – The Past in the Present.
In this workshop we will handle & view some of The London Archives’ historic maps of Clerkenwell, to see how maps can be used to reveal the ways the past lives on in the present.
@thelondonarchives.bsky.social
Clerkenwell: A History in Maps – The Past in the Present.
In this workshop we will handle & view some of The London Archives’ historic maps of Clerkenwell, to see how maps can be used to reveal the ways the past lives on in the present.
August 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Fri 15 Aug 12.30-2pm at
@thelondonarchives.bsky.social
Clerkenwell: A History in Maps – The Past in the Present.
In this workshop we will handle & view some of The London Archives’ historic maps of Clerkenwell, to see how maps can be used to reveal the ways the past lives on in the present.
@thelondonarchives.bsky.social
Clerkenwell: A History in Maps – The Past in the Present.
In this workshop we will handle & view some of The London Archives’ historic maps of Clerkenwell, to see how maps can be used to reveal the ways the past lives on in the present.
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There are a few places left on our guided tour next Saturday
Join us on a tour through the area of London connected to the fight against Mussolini and Franco. We'll learn how an Indian socialist and Georgian communist pioneered a healthcare revolution and on the clandestine war for Irish independence.
Booking required www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...
Booking required www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...
July 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
There are a few places left on our guided tour next Saturday
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Join us on a tour through the area of London connected to the fight against Mussolini and Franco. We'll learn how an Indian socialist and Georgian communist pioneered a healthcare revolution and on the clandestine war for Irish independence.
Booking required www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...
Booking required www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...
July 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Join us on a tour through the area of London connected to the fight against Mussolini and Franco. We'll learn how an Indian socialist and Georgian communist pioneered a healthcare revolution and on the clandestine war for Irish independence.
Booking required www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...
Booking required www.ticketsource.co.uk/associazione...
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We've just been to visit the Clerks' Well at Clerkenwell on one of its rare open days. Thanks to @ianvisits.co.uk for the heads up. www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/...
Clerks' Well
The Clerks' Well gives its name to the are of Clerkenwell. The well, fed by a natural spring, was within the boundary of the Nunnery of St Mary, founded in the 12th century. The nunnery was dissolved...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We've just been to visit the Clerks' Well at Clerkenwell on one of its rare open days. Thanks to @ianvisits.co.uk for the heads up. www.layersoflondon.org/map/records/...
Spent a morning in the company of @alondoninheritance.bsky.social on his walking tour of Limehouse.
If you’ve never been on one of David’s walks he has a huge collection of his Dad’s photos which allows you to go back in time and view the area as it was 80, 70yrs ago.
Highly recommended.
If you’ve never been on one of David’s walks he has a huge collection of his Dad’s photos which allows you to go back in time and view the area as it was 80, 70yrs ago.
Highly recommended.
May 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Spent a morning in the company of @alondoninheritance.bsky.social on his walking tour of Limehouse.
If you’ve never been on one of David’s walks he has a huge collection of his Dad’s photos which allows you to go back in time and view the area as it was 80, 70yrs ago.
Highly recommended.
If you’ve never been on one of David’s walks he has a huge collection of his Dad’s photos which allows you to go back in time and view the area as it was 80, 70yrs ago.
Highly recommended.
Well, thank f#%k that’s the end of this season (or the last game I have to watch anyhow…) truly forgettable 24/25… major sort-out required in the summer!
Stayed on at the end to make sure Cress, Fab & Vlad got a proper send off - well deserved - thanks you fellas! ⚒️💜🩵
Stayed on at the end to make sure Cress, Fab & Vlad got a proper send off - well deserved - thanks you fellas! ⚒️💜🩵
May 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Well, thank f#%k that’s the end of this season (or the last game I have to watch anyhow…) truly forgettable 24/25… major sort-out required in the summer!
Stayed on at the end to make sure Cress, Fab & Vlad got a proper send off - well deserved - thanks you fellas! ⚒️💜🩵
Stayed on at the end to make sure Cress, Fab & Vlad got a proper send off - well deserved - thanks you fellas! ⚒️💜🩵
Some interesting insights into the writing & screenwriting processes that are involved in creating both Mick Herron’s bestselling ‘Slow Horses’ novels and Ed Docx’s hit tv series of the same name - a real favourite of mine.
#FestivalOfWords #FleetStreetQuarter
#FestivalOfWords #FleetStreetQuarter
May 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Some interesting insights into the writing & screenwriting processes that are involved in creating both Mick Herron’s bestselling ‘Slow Horses’ novels and Ed Docx’s hit tv series of the same name - a real favourite of mine.
#FestivalOfWords #FleetStreetQuarter
#FestivalOfWords #FleetStreetQuarter
A great day spent @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social listening to a diverse range of excellent presentations from the likes of Breda Corish, Nigel Smith and Andrew Whitehead at the stunning Round Chapel (1871) saved from dereliction & reopened in 2018.
May 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A great day spent @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social listening to a diverse range of excellent presentations from the likes of Breda Corish, Nigel Smith and Andrew Whitehead at the stunning Round Chapel (1871) saved from dereliction & reopened in 2018.
Some really interesting speakers at @mildmayclub last night as part of @HackneyHistFest including @PeteBrownBeer explaining the origin & history of working men’s clubs in England and club members talking about the Mildmay Club itself and recent efforts to delve into its history…
May 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Some really interesting speakers at @mildmayclub last night as part of @HackneyHistFest including @PeteBrownBeer explaining the origin & history of working men’s clubs in England and club members talking about the Mildmay Club itself and recent efforts to delve into its history…
Interesting talk last night on a fascinating period of our history, the English Revolu - whoops, sorry - I meant the English Civil War! 😉 @englishradical.bsky.social @englishcivilwar.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Interesting talk last night on a fascinating period of our history, the English Revolu - whoops, sorry - I meant the English Civil War! 😉 @englishradical.bsky.social @englishcivilwar.bsky.social
My first time celebrating Italian Liberation Day the other night.
The relatives of British servicemen told some moving stories of how both partisans and ordinary Italian families had risked everything to assist them behind enemy lines during WW2.
Incredibly brave people!
The relatives of British servicemen told some moving stories of how both partisans and ordinary Italian families had risked everything to assist them behind enemy lines during WW2.
Incredibly brave people!
April 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My first time celebrating Italian Liberation Day the other night.
The relatives of British servicemen told some moving stories of how both partisans and ordinary Italian families had risked everything to assist them behind enemy lines during WW2.
Incredibly brave people!
The relatives of British servicemen told some moving stories of how both partisans and ordinary Italian families had risked everything to assist them behind enemy lines during WW2.
Incredibly brave people!
Congrats to both JC & Brad who passed their Westminster Tour Guiding exam! 🥳 🥂🍾
Had the privilege of accompanying them on their mock and final - two excellent walks entitled: ’Rock Legends of Soho’ and ‘Westminster the French Connection’.
Look out for these two - they’re gonna be great!👌
Had the privilege of accompanying them on their mock and final - two excellent walks entitled: ’Rock Legends of Soho’ and ‘Westminster the French Connection’.
Look out for these two - they’re gonna be great!👌
April 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Congrats to both JC & Brad who passed their Westminster Tour Guiding exam! 🥳 🥂🍾
Had the privilege of accompanying them on their mock and final - two excellent walks entitled: ’Rock Legends of Soho’ and ‘Westminster the French Connection’.
Look out for these two - they’re gonna be great!👌
Had the privilege of accompanying them on their mock and final - two excellent walks entitled: ’Rock Legends of Soho’ and ‘Westminster the French Connection’.
Look out for these two - they’re gonna be great!👌
That’s sad… remember chatting to him in the 80s, nice fella. RIP
RIP Mike Peters. In a lifetime spent in and around the music biz, I never heard a bad word said about Mike. That's some tribute.
April 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
That’s sad… remember chatting to him in the 80s, nice fella. RIP
Great nite out with the clan 🏴 seeing Eddie Reader & the band. Never realised, she’s quite the raconteur to boot!
If you get the chance to see someone perform at the Union Chapel, go, the sound and setting are exceptional! 👌
@unionchapeluk.bsky.social @eddireader.bsky.social
If you get the chance to see someone perform at the Union Chapel, go, the sound and setting are exceptional! 👌
@unionchapeluk.bsky.social @eddireader.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Great nite out with the clan 🏴 seeing Eddie Reader & the band. Never realised, she’s quite the raconteur to boot!
If you get the chance to see someone perform at the Union Chapel, go, the sound and setting are exceptional! 👌
@unionchapeluk.bsky.social @eddireader.bsky.social
If you get the chance to see someone perform at the Union Chapel, go, the sound and setting are exceptional! 👌
@unionchapeluk.bsky.social @eddireader.bsky.social
Visited Two Temple Place to view ‘Lives Less Ordinary: Working-Class Britain Re-seen’ with a music set from Steve Skaith of Lain Quarter
My first visit to this spectacular building. The staff were all extra nice too!
Need to hop on a tour of this place sometime soon.
My first visit to this spectacular building. The staff were all extra nice too!
Need to hop on a tour of this place sometime soon.
April 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Visited Two Temple Place to view ‘Lives Less Ordinary: Working-Class Britain Re-seen’ with a music set from Steve Skaith of Lain Quarter
My first visit to this spectacular building. The staff were all extra nice too!
Need to hop on a tour of this place sometime soon.
My first visit to this spectacular building. The staff were all extra nice too!
Need to hop on a tour of this place sometime soon.