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A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 36. Marble Arch Underpass Where? It’s an underpass. It passes under Marble Arch. Like, dur. What? This haphazard collection of tunnels was constructed in the early 1960s, to improve pedestrian access to Hyde Park. Ha! It’s …

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 35. Saffron Hill Where? Narrow street running parallel to Farringdon Road between Charterhouse Street and Clerkenwell Road. The quiet southern end is not used by vehicles, hence its inclusion in this series. What? The street is …

There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also …

Imagine the sights and the smells of the world’s largest and most expanding city. A city full of promise, the streets paved with the fragments of young men and women’s dreams. And other people’s filth. This is Dickensian London during the serialisation of Oliver Twist, …

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 34. West End Lane to Dresden Close Where? Off the beaten track this week, to the railway hinterland beside the O2 Centre, NW6. What? Could this be London’s grimmest passage? The tiled chute – last seen …

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 33. Newman Passage Where? In the heart of Fitzrovia, linking Newman and Rathbone streets. What? A tripartite affair, with a short cobbled road forming the western and southern stretches, and an alley leading east beneath the …

Part 10 To make it a bit tougher for you to identify the location, we’ve smudged out the Google-able part of this plaque. Special bonus points for anyone with a non-cake-related fact about good King Alfred. There are still a few unidentified plaques in the …

Google Maps have a new toolkit, where you can create your own maps. We don’t need much encouragement to play with such things, so soon put together a map of all our back passages. It differs from the previous Platial map in showing the extent …

The ever awesome Urban Digital have been testing a new gadget: In a follow up to yesterday’s post, on the Nokia N95′s built in GPS and creating GPS track for visualisation in Google Earth, we thought we would try it out on the train back …

We mentioned a while back that the US embassy is considering a move from its traditional Grosvenor Square home. Google Maps seem to have the scoop on the new address. If you search for American Embassy in the UK version of Google Maps, you’re pointed …