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Obsessed with London history, transport and maps. Occasional posts about space science and random stuff. Based atm in Leiden, NL

(West) Smithfield from the ’woodcut’ map of c. 1561, illustrating its proximity with open fields to the west, and cattle pens by the City of London
Fog at South Woodford station
St John’s Wood station is the only Underground station to have no letters in common with the word ’mackerel’.
Walnut Tree Place, SE11 Late nineteenth century
From ’The Story of Newspapers’ (1969)
Deacons Hill Road, Elstree
Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus (1949)
J.H. Colton’s Environs of London
Lithograph of Sion Row (now Sion Road), Twickenham (1900)
Tiny grass is sleeping
The original Shoreditch Workhouse, situated on "The Land of Promise".
’Battle of Cable Street’ (1976-1983) Paul Butler, Dave Binnington, Desmond Rochfort and more.
The Northern Outfall Sewer under construction
Green Dragon Lane (1906)
Sutton High Street (1896)
Loo rolls
St Paul’s Church, Camden Square, c.1848
’West-End Street Scene’ (c. 1945)
Black Lion Yard looking north, 1961.
Bayswater Road
A line of three new LGOC B-type buses (route 1) stand ready for service, with their crews, at Cricklewood bus garage (1911) The new B-type bus was the world’s first mass-produced motorised bus, introduced in 1910 by Frank Searle. A bus inspector stands at the right foreground.
Things I Wanted To Say But Never Did
Queen Victoria public house, Albert Square
’River Thames, Chelsea Embankment’
Richard Lidstone draper’s shop on the corner of Shenley Road and Furzehill Road (early 1900s)
Mornington Crescent, northwest quadrant (1904)
The site of Spring Gardens on the Agas map (1561)
Hollydale Road (1900s) This road lies between Peckham and Nunhead.
London’s Imperial College alone counts five Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry: Walter Haworth, Cyril Hinshelwood, George Porter, Derek Barton and Geoffrey Wilkinson.
The Elephant a.k.a. the Moss Hall Tavern.
View of the entrance to Lincoln’s Inn Fields in Duke Street.
Prescot Street looking eastwards (1935)
All Saints Road, W11
Whitehouse Avenue in Boreham Wood photographed in about 1928. On the far right can be seen the stages of the British International Pictures Studio built in 1925-26.
Ha Ha Road
The entrance to the London and South Western Railway Depot at 186 Borough High Street (1910)
’Early Morning, Muswell Hill’ (2017)
Drayton Road (1953)
Chiswick High Road (1900s)
The Rifle in 1913
Kim Il-Sung For Whoever
Looking down Artillery Lane towards Artillery Passage in Spitalfields (1912)
’Stag Public House, Devereux Court, London’ (1887)
View from the roof of the Elephant and Castle pub
Sclater Street, Bethnal Green, early 1900s
Winthrop Street looking east, c.1970.
South Harrow station (1930s)
ABPC Elstree Studios, Boreham Wood
’Sunburst’
Talbot Road from the east corner of Powis Square 1900s featuring the site of Fullerton’s tailor’s/blues and the Globe bar.
Brixton Road before WWI
Hudson’s the chemist (1906)
The Plough - reputedly 800 years old
Worst Alphabet Book Ever
’Spring in Hyde Park’ (c. 1910)
The exterior of the Agricultural Hall in Islington (1861).
Hendon Park on a 1933 map
Fournier (Church) Street, 1946, showing Jones’ pawnbrokers.
Penalty Fare