Borough Market(Map: F-10) - May be the oldest fruit and vegetable market in London. The original market had spread to the southern end of London Bridge by 1276. By the mid 18th century the market was causing such a disruption to traffic that it was closed. The City granted the parishio...
London Colosseum (Great Portland Street):Not to be confused with the existing London Coliseum theatre, theColosseumwas an impressive domed building to the east of Regent's Park. It housed Thomas Hornor's panorama of London, said to be the largest painting in the world. It was demolished in ...
Greenwich meridian, an imaginary line, last established in 1851, used to indicate zero degrees longitude. It passes through Greenwich, London, and ends at the North and South poles. Because it indicated zero degrees longitude, it was also known as the pr
Cambridge has good rail and road access toLondon, about 60 miles (95 km) south. During themedievalperiod theRiver Cam was heavily used for water transport, the local wharfing facilities (which have gradually disappeared) being in heavy demand during the annual period of Stourbridge Fair. Today...
This is the second of MAPCO's copies of Stanford's Library Map of London to be displayed. The railway overlay makes this a unique, fascinating, and rare map, of interest to family historians, local historians, and railway enthusiasts. ...
Antique Map of the British Isles, Insets of the Shetland Islands and Hebrides H 16.82 in W 19.45 in D 0.02 in Antique Map of British Guayana with Insets of Georgetown, Devil's Rock Etc, 1851 Free Shipping H 14.18 in W 10.83 in D 0 in Beneath the Surface: James Wyld's 1844 Geologic...
伦敦塔 伦敦泰晤士河伦敦塔(Tower of London),是英国伦敦一座标志性的宫殿、要塞,选址在泰晤士河。詹姆士一世(1566-1625)是将其作为宫殿居住的最后一位统治者。伦敦塔曾作为堡垒、军械库、国库、铸币厂、宫殿、天文台、避难所和监狱,特别关押上层阶级的囚犯,最后一次作为监狱使用是在第二次世界大战期间。
I T IS AUGUST 1854, AND LONDON IS A CITY OF SCAVENGERS. Just the names alone read now like some kind of exotic zoological catalogue: bone-pickers, rag-gatherers, pure-finders, dredgermen, mud-larks, sewer-hunters, dustmen, night-soil men, bunters, toshers, shoremen. These were the L...
In 1827, London passed Beijing to become the largest city in the world with 1.3 million residents. Over the next 100 years, its population increased nearly 7 times, remaining the most populous city until the end of World War I, by which time it was overtaken by New York. Rank14421851191919...
London Institute of Child Health. Searches were conducted using the CINAHL, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, LILACS, and Web of Science databases. Given the importance of the field, the perceived amount of ongoing research in the area, and to increase comprehensiveness, grey literature...