West India Quay

12/07/2022

Laban Dance Centre

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has 1,250 undergraduate and postgraduate students based at th...

12/07/2022

The Agas Map: Civitas Londinum is a bird’s-eye view of London first printed from woodblocks in about 1561. Widely known as the Agas map. The map offers a richly detailed view both of the buildings and streets of the city and of its environment.

The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) comprises four distinct, interoperable projects. MoEML began in 1999 as a digital atlas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London based on the 1560s Agas woodcut map of the city. MoEML now includes an encyclopedia of early modern London people and places, a....

09/07/2022

St John’s Wharves and the Captain Kidd pub, Wapping (2016)



Source: Wiki Commons/Dietmar Rabich

08/07/2022

The scene after a car smashed into a house in Hooks Road, SE15 (1950)



Source: Frank Hudson/Associated News

02/07/2022

Clouds as pictured from orbit. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev took this picture from the ISS, early in 2014

Source: Roscosmos/Oleg Artemyev

02/07/2022

diamond geezer: an eclectic blog about nearly everything London

twenty blogs 853 our bow arseblog ian visits londonist blue witch the great wen edith's streets spitalfields life linkmachinego round the island wanstead meteo christopher fowler bus and train user ruth's coastal walk the ladies who bus round the rails we go london reconnections dirty modern scoundr...

28/06/2022

Heathrow & #8211; the lost hamlet & #187; The Underground Map: Heathrow was a village for centuries before it was an airport

Note: The following account was written by local historian Philip Sherwood in 2007, and featured on a lost website which campaigned against the expansion of Heathrow Airport. In recovering it and f…

22/06/2022

Londonist: the latest news in London, what's on and events, the best London food and pubs, history and trivia

The latest news in London, what's on and events, the best London food and pubs, history and trivia, what's free and cheap in London.

20/06/2022

The Victorian Abbey Mill pumping station on the London trunk sewerage system



Source: Velela

18/06/2022

The London Encyclopaedia: The classic one volume guide to London in all its majesty

The London Encyclopaedia is probably THE definitive guide to the most interesting areas and people of London. We have provided a link direct to Amazon should you wish to buy it. As it says in the s…

16/06/2022

Viewing Earth from the ISS Cupola

Source: NASA/ESA/JAXA

14/06/2022

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diamond geezer: an eclectic blog about nearly everything London

twenty blogs 853 our bow arseblog ian visits londonist blue witch the great wen edith's streets spitalfields life linkmachinego round the island wanstead meteo christopher fowler bus and train user ruth's coastal walk the ladies who bus round the rails we go london reconnections dirty modern scoundr...