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Obsessed with London history, transport and maps. Occasional posts about space science and random stuff. Based atm in Leiden, NL
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Burnt Oak (1932)
The map shows two now-defunct airfields.
London Aerodrome (Hendon Aerodrome) became RAF Hendon before closing in the 1950s. The area became Grahame Park.
Stag Lane was a private aerodrome between 1915 and 1933, later sold for housing development.
📷 Geographica
#map #burntoak
The map shows two now-defunct airfields.
London Aerodrome (Hendon Aerodrome) became RAF Hendon before closing in the 1950s. The area became Grahame Park.
Stag Lane was a private aerodrome between 1915 and 1933, later sold for housing development.
📷 Geographica
#map #burntoak
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The George Inn (1889)
On Borough High Street and once known as the George and Dragon, the pub is the only surviving galleried London coaching inn.
🎨 National Trust
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=6691
#london #borough
On Borough High Street and once known as the George and Dragon, the pub is the only surviving galleried London coaching inn.
🎨 National Trust
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=6691
#london #borough
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The George Inn (1889)
On Borough High Street and once known as the George and Dragon, the pub is the only surviving galleried London coaching inn.
🎨 National Trust
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=6691
#london #borough
On Borough High Street and once known as the George and Dragon, the pub is the only surviving galleried London coaching inn.
🎨 National Trust
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=6691
#london #borough
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
"Cheapside and Bow Church" engraved by W. Albutt (1837)
First published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster.
Steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd.
📷 W. Albutt
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2604
#cityoflondon
First published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster.
Steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd.
📷 W. Albutt
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2604
#cityoflondon
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
"Cheapside and Bow Church" engraved by W. Albutt (1837)
First published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster.
Steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd.
📷 W. Albutt
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2604
#cityoflondon
First published in The History of London: Illustrated by Views in London and Westminster.
Steel engraved print after a picture by T.H. Shepherd.
📷 W. Albutt
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2604
#cityoflondon
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Commercial Road, E1
Rare photo dating from the 1890s
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=15445
#london #stepney
Rare photo dating from the 1890s
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=15445
#london #stepney
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Commercial Road, E1
Rare photo dating from the 1890s
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=15445
#london #stepney
Rare photo dating from the 1890s
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=15445
#london #stepney
Wych Street
This was located in the Drury Lane rookery, demolished in the first decade of the 20th century.
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=33670
#london #aldwych
This was located in the Drury Lane rookery, demolished in the first decade of the 20th century.
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=33670
#london #aldwych
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Wych Street
This was located in the Drury Lane rookery, demolished in the first decade of the 20th century.
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=33670
#london #aldwych
This was located in the Drury Lane rookery, demolished in the first decade of the 20th century.
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=33670
#london #aldwych
Orme’s Green
This map was produced at the turn of the 1840s showing the almost-forgotten village of Ormes Green along the Harrow Road. This was east of the modern junction with Great Western Road.
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=3830
#map #paddington
This map was produced at the turn of the 1840s showing the almost-forgotten village of Ormes Green along the Harrow Road. This was east of the modern junction with Great Western Road.
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=3830
#map #paddington
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Orme’s Green
This map was produced at the turn of the 1840s showing the almost-forgotten village of Ormes Green along the Harrow Road. This was east of the modern junction with Great Western Road.
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=3830
#map #paddington
This map was produced at the turn of the 1840s showing the almost-forgotten village of Ormes Green along the Harrow Road. This was east of the modern junction with Great Western Road.
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=3830
#map #paddington
Stockwell station (1930)
Policeman on duty. I had to learn those police signals in the Highway Code and (in theory) could have been quizzed on them during the driving test. I’m sure they don’t exist now in the same way
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2188
#london #stockwell
Policeman on duty. I had to learn those police signals in the Highway Code and (in theory) could have been quizzed on them during the driving test. I’m sure they don’t exist now in the same way
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2188
#london #stockwell
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Stockwell station (1930)
Policeman on duty. I had to learn those police signals in the Highway Code and (in theory) could have been quizzed on them during the driving test. I’m sure they don’t exist now in the same way
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2188
#london #stockwell
Policeman on duty. I had to learn those police signals in the Highway Code and (in theory) could have been quizzed on them during the driving test. I’m sure they don’t exist now in the same way
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2188
#london #stockwell
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
November 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Royal Festival Hall and Shot Tower c.1959
The photo was taken from Hungerford Bridge. The tower was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Queen Elizabeth Hall
📷 Wiki Commons/David Wright
#london #southbank
The photo was taken from Hungerford Bridge. The tower was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Queen Elizabeth Hall
📷 Wiki Commons/David Wright
#london #southbank
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Royal Festival Hall and Shot Tower c.1959
The photo was taken from Hungerford Bridge. The tower was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Queen Elizabeth Hall
📷 Wiki Commons/David Wright
#london #southbank
The photo was taken from Hungerford Bridge. The tower was demolished in the 1960s to make way for the Queen Elizabeth Hall
📷 Wiki Commons/David Wright
#london #southbank
The all-female ‘40 Elephants’ gang were based at the Elephant & Castle. They flourished between the 1870s and 1950s.
The women would often arrive in the West End in chauffeur-driven vehicles. They would take turns shoplifting and being lookout/distracters.
#london #newington
The women would often arrive in the West End in chauffeur-driven vehicles. They would take turns shoplifting and being lookout/distracters.
#london #newington
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The all-female ‘40 Elephants’ gang were based at the Elephant & Castle. They flourished between the 1870s and 1950s.
The women would often arrive in the West End in chauffeur-driven vehicles. They would take turns shoplifting and being lookout/distracters.
#london #newington
The women would often arrive in the West End in chauffeur-driven vehicles. They would take turns shoplifting and being lookout/distracters.
#london #newington
Regent’s Park was laid out between 1818 and 1835.
This 1820s map shows it as a ’work in progress’.
The Waterloo monument didn’t turn out to be the major feature that had been proposed.
The park overtook the planned streets around Cumberland Market.
#map #regentspark
This 1820s map shows it as a ’work in progress’.
The Waterloo monument didn’t turn out to be the major feature that had been proposed.
The park overtook the planned streets around Cumberland Market.
#map #regentspark
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Regent’s Park was laid out between 1818 and 1835.
This 1820s map shows it as a ’work in progress’.
The Waterloo monument didn’t turn out to be the major feature that had been proposed.
The park overtook the planned streets around Cumberland Market.
#map #regentspark
This 1820s map shows it as a ’work in progress’.
The Waterloo monument didn’t turn out to be the major feature that had been proposed.
The park overtook the planned streets around Cumberland Market.
#map #regentspark
Rillington Place, W11, looking east
An infamous road which had a life before the Christie murders (the house is not in shot here)
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=33838
#london #nottingdale
An infamous road which had a life before the Christie murders (the house is not in shot here)
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=33838
#london #nottingdale
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Rillington Place, W11, looking east
An infamous road which had a life before the Christie murders (the house is not in shot here)
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=33838
#london #nottingdale
An infamous road which had a life before the Christie murders (the house is not in shot here)
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=33838
#london #nottingdale
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Portrait of Sir Edward W. Watkin (1819-1901) by Augustus Henry Fox.
Edward Watkin was Chairman of both the Metropolitan Railway and the South Eastern Railway.
🎨 National Railway Museum
#fineart #metropolitanrailway
Edward Watkin was Chairman of both the Metropolitan Railway and the South Eastern Railway.
🎨 National Railway Museum
#fineart #metropolitanrailway
October 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Portrait of Sir Edward W. Watkin (1819-1901) by Augustus Henry Fox.
Edward Watkin was Chairman of both the Metropolitan Railway and the South Eastern Railway.
🎨 National Railway Museum
#fineart #metropolitanrailway
Edward Watkin was Chairman of both the Metropolitan Railway and the South Eastern Railway.
🎨 National Railway Museum
#fineart #metropolitanrailway
St Anne’s Court, Soho in the early 1960s
This was the location for the groundbreaking Trident Studios - Bowie, the Beatles, Queen, Carly Simon and others recorded there
📷 Wiki Commons
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=29236
#london #soho
This was the location for the groundbreaking Trident Studios - Bowie, the Beatles, Queen, Carly Simon and others recorded there
📷 Wiki Commons
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=29236
#london #soho
October 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
St Anne’s Court, Soho in the early 1960s
This was the location for the groundbreaking Trident Studios - Bowie, the Beatles, Queen, Carly Simon and others recorded there
📷 Wiki Commons
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=29236
#london #soho
This was the location for the groundbreaking Trident Studios - Bowie, the Beatles, Queen, Carly Simon and others recorded there
📷 Wiki Commons
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=29236
#london #soho
Map of the Greenwich Peninsula and part of the Isle of Dogs (c.1872)
Bugsby’s Marsh - the site of the O2 - was a particularly grim location being land to the south of Blackwall Point where executed criminals were hung in chains
📷 1872 map
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2724
#map
Bugsby’s Marsh - the site of the O2 - was a particularly grim location being land to the south of Blackwall Point where executed criminals were hung in chains
📷 1872 map
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2724
#map
October 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Map of the Greenwich Peninsula and part of the Isle of Dogs (c.1872)
Bugsby’s Marsh - the site of the O2 - was a particularly grim location being land to the south of Blackwall Point where executed criminals were hung in chains
📷 1872 map
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2724
#map
Bugsby’s Marsh - the site of the O2 - was a particularly grim location being land to the south of Blackwall Point where executed criminals were hung in chains
📷 1872 map
📍 www.theundergroundmap.com?id=2724
#map
October 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
’Night Lights of Piccadilly’ (from ’This Is London’, 1959)
🎨 Mirsoslav Šašek
#fineart #piccadillycircus
🎨 Mirsoslav Šašek
#fineart #piccadillycircus
October 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
’Night Lights of Piccadilly’ (from ’This Is London’, 1959)
🎨 Mirsoslav Šašek
#fineart #piccadillycircus
🎨 Mirsoslav Šašek
#fineart #piccadillycircus
Broadwater Farm
Before it was better known for its estate, Broadwater Farm was a notable Tottenham dairy farm.
📷 Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
#london #towergardens
Before it was better known for its estate, Broadwater Farm was a notable Tottenham dairy farm.
📷 Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
#london #towergardens
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Broadwater Farm
Before it was better known for its estate, Broadwater Farm was a notable Tottenham dairy farm.
📷 Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
#london #towergardens
Before it was better known for its estate, Broadwater Farm was a notable Tottenham dairy farm.
📷 Bruce Castle Museum (Haringey Culture, Libraries and Learning)
#london #towergardens