What Did Your Part of London Look Like in The 1890s? Ever wish you could do a Google Street view of London from the 19th century? Well the National Library of Scotland have done the next best thing! They’ve created a map mashup by overlaying 1890s era Ordnance Survey maps with today...
Stations:Aldgate East, Liverpool Street, Moorgate, Barbican, Farringdon, King's Cross St Pancras, Euston Square, Great Portland Street, Baker Street, Finchley Road, Wembley Park, Preston Road , Northwick Park, Harrow-on-the-Hill, West Harrow, Rayners Lane, Eastcote, Ruislip Manor, Ruislip, I...
Map of todays 50 things to do in London +− Leaflet | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery © Mapbox See below for 50 random free places to visit in London. Harrow Lodge Park One of the largest parks in Havering with a boating lake and sports facilities. ...
Cannon Street(Map: D-10) - Street leading from St. Paul's-churchyard to the end of King William-street. It was formerly known as Candelwrithe Street and then Candlewick Street, due to the candlemakers who lived there. Its present name is a corruption of these former names(Weinreb et al...
The plaque on the Gordon Street property (the blue dot seen in the image above) was erected by the Seamen’s Hospital Society. PICTURE: Right –Spudgun67(licensed underCC BY-SA 4.0/image cropped) November 14, 2019 • King George IV’s public image and his taste for the theatrical and...
Horwood’s 1799 map showing the corner property. The southern section of Museum Street used to be called Bow Street. Snowden was most likely Meabry’s brother-in-law by marriage, as Elizabeth’s sister Martha was married to a Robert Snowden who is described on their marriage registration as...
Goswell Street London Bridge Beer Lane Iron Gate When I check the map whilst writing this post, the Fleet Main Line Sewer, Paul’s Pier and Iron Gate were all recorded as “This storm overflow discharged in the last 48 hours. This means there could be sewage in this section of the water...
s line from King William Street (a now disused station) to Stockwell was the first to be created by boring a tunnel through the earth and then lining it to create a tube. The line, a forerunner of what is now the Northern Line, opened in December, 1890. It was the first true ‘...
The Survey of London does not make any mention of the Swiss Hotel as being in Old Compton Street before 1890, however taking newspapers from the 1870s and 1880s, there are mentions of the Swiss Hotel, and 1890 could be a reference to the build of the current building on the site, rath...
It was Angus Gordon, a “free vintner” meaning he didn’t have to apply for a licence thanks to the largesse of King Edward III in 1364, who established the premises in the vaults here in the 1890s (interestingly the current owners are also Gordons, but not related). Among the other...