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Gobbets of the week #12! 

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Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history we saw this week:

1. Sir John Soane’s private apartments: obsessive, eccentric brilliance. 

  
2. 18 beautiful and weird maps that will change the way you look at London. 

3. With all the noise of the recent Hatton Garden heist, here’s a lovely piece by Rachel Lichtenstein on one of London’s most fascinating streets. 

  
4. The Soho shoe shop that supplied Queen Victoria’s wedding slippers. 

5. Murals and street art from 1980s London. 

6. Central London’s massive unbuilt railway terminus. 

7. The little mortuary at St George-in-the-East and its reincarnation as a museum. 

  
8. Should the Euston Arch be rebuilt? 

  
9. Francis Barber: reluctant member of Dr Johnson’s mad ménage. 

10. Witanhurst: the biggest private mansion in London – but who owns it? 

Gobbets of the week #11

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Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history that caught our eye this week:

1. Soho stories: six decades of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. 

  
2. London’s Dreary Dockland: Dame Clara Butt sings at the Savoy, 1923.

3. Smog in the City, 1952.

4. Snuff said: a visit to Fribourg & Pontet, tobacconists of Pall Mall. 

5. Remarkable artworks from Roman London.

6. John Wilkes and the St George’s Fields Massacre of 1768. 

  
7. The Streets under the Barbican. 

8. A Wapping boatman, 1938, 

9. 16 fabulous colour photos of a weekend in London, 1959. 

10. Walking London on VE Day, 1945 & 2015.

  

Gobbets of the week #10

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Here are links to the top 10 gobbets of London history that caught our eye this week: 

1. The lovely A London Inheritance blog finds that not much has changed in Highgate since 1948. 

  

2. Southwark Park ‘ghost station’ uncovered by Thameslink workers. 

3. Massive Waterloo cartoon emerges from Royal Academy storage in time for bicentenary. 

  

4. 50 years of the London boroughs in archive films. 

5. New 3D model of central London. 

6. Liverpool Street station, 1917 by Marjorie Sherlock. 

7. The interior of the Old Bedford Music Hall, Camden by Walter Richard Sickert, 1890. 

8. In search of Shakespeare’s London with the Spitalfields Life blog. 

  

9. Stovepipe hats abound: daguerreotype of the great Chartist meeting at Kennington in April 1848. 

  

10. Photographing London in the 1970s by Peter Watts.