Gobbets of the week #24

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

1. A brief but lovely history of London maps.

  

2. Visscher redrawn. The panorama of London 400 years on. 

3. Agatha Christie’s London. 

4. More Cries of London from @thegentleauthor. 

5. The Barbican Estate: a town reconstructed from its cellars. 

  

6. Regency London, John Nash and the Third Reich: visiting Carlton House Terrace. 

7. Battle of Britain: the Crisis. 

8. First ever public tours of Henry V’s chapel. 

9. Postman’s Park – one of London’s most unusual memorials. 

  

…and finally, two pieces on London’s Northern Heights…

10. Highgate’s hospital history and Hampstead Heath Pergola. 

Gobbets of the week #14

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

1. Victorian London in photographs (via Westminster Walks).

2. A lovely colour film of London Bridge, 1926 by Claude Friese-Green (via Rob Baker).

  
3. Compare detailed historic maps with today’s London. 

  
4. Some 3D views of Central Line tube stations. 

5. A Doric tragedy: demolishing the Euston Arch

6. 1960: when Tommy Steele’s wedding caused chaos in Soho Square. 

  
7. Wonderful archives film of The Barbican, 1969.

 
8. The Last Shift: the seedy side of Regency London.

9. An old map of London’s Theatreland. 

10. Now the site of City Airport, the King George V and Royal Albert Docks in 1930. 

Gobbets of the week #11

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.