Dr Chris
@drchrisc.bsky.social
Archaeologist working in London
Such a shame to sell something like that.
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Such a shame to sell something like that.
I was born in 1973 so some tangled memories. Hours long power cuts. We lived near Guildford, there was real fear of the IRA. People dying in car accidents. This is a bit into the 80s but you’d start school in September and often a kid had been killed in a car crash or run over in the break.
November 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I was born in 1973 so some tangled memories. Hours long power cuts. We lived near Guildford, there was real fear of the IRA. People dying in car accidents. This is a bit into the 80s but you’d start school in September and often a kid had been killed in a car crash or run over in the break.
Via a couple of weeks at Southwark Crown Court.
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Via a couple of weeks at Southwark Crown Court.
Save it for next year when it will be worse.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Save it for next year when it will be worse.
The Eddstone will replace the lectern!
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Eddstone will replace the lectern!
Dusting off the Edd stone #megalithic
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Dusting off the Edd stone #megalithic
Unlike most of them he appears to have an idea of what to do in government!
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Unlike most of them he appears to have an idea of what to do in government!
I got a cross country from Durham to Exeter many years ago, no changes!
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I got a cross country from Durham to Exeter many years ago, no changes!
By far the best local newspaper name!
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
By far the best local newspaper name!
Had ice in the inside of bedroom windows growing up until 1988 when coal heating was replaced by gas. You’d bank the coal fire up and close the vents to keep it going over night without burning out of fuel so the back boiler got cold, and no heat from radiators.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Had ice in the inside of bedroom windows growing up until 1988 when coal heating was replaced by gas. You’d bank the coal fire up and close the vents to keep it going over night without burning out of fuel so the back boiler got cold, and no heat from radiators.
You can click on the line and it gives the source.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
You can click on the line and it gives the source.
Yes for much of London the most recent source is 1955 which was somewhat guesswork at the time.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Yes for much of London the most recent source is 1955 which was somewhat guesswork at the time.
Absolutely brilliant seeing this live.
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Absolutely brilliant seeing this live.
He’s played a blinder against a bunch of morons!
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
He’s played a blinder against a bunch of morons!
It is an amazing piece of research to produce something of this scale. Most the London roads are conjectured or sourced from Margary 1955, Harvey Sheldon published the Southwark roads on the two islands in Antiquity 1986. It is great the sources are identified.
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It is an amazing piece of research to produce something of this scale. Most the London roads are conjectured or sourced from Margary 1955, Harvey Sheldon published the Southwark roads on the two islands in Antiquity 1986. It is great the sources are identified.
There’s a few errors!!!!
The red circle shows the last find of Watling st. This map has it running through a marsh.
It is completely wrong in north Southwark, a good chunk of the road is in the soggy bit of the port. Difficult to work out where this was sourced.
The red circle shows the last find of Watling st. This map has it running through a marsh.
It is completely wrong in north Southwark, a good chunk of the road is in the soggy bit of the port. Difficult to work out where this was sourced.
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
There’s a few errors!!!!
The red circle shows the last find of Watling st. This map has it running through a marsh.
It is completely wrong in north Southwark, a good chunk of the road is in the soggy bit of the port. Difficult to work out where this was sourced.
The red circle shows the last find of Watling st. This map has it running through a marsh.
It is completely wrong in north Southwark, a good chunk of the road is in the soggy bit of the port. Difficult to work out where this was sourced.
Yes there are two in Southwark that are not on here.
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Yes there are two in Southwark that are not on here.
Shareholders in Ancestry?
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Shareholders in Ancestry?