Monday Miscellanea
It’s been 228 years since the last person was hanged at the Tyburn gallows.
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Book Review: London’s Lost Rivers, A Walker’s Guide
An oft-trodden topic gets a fresh new treatment.
Book Review: London’s Lost Rivers By Paul Talling
A much-covered subject gets a fresh treatment.
Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 1st November 1848: Retail business W H Smith opens its first railway bookstall, at Euston Station. Tuesday – 2nd November 1785: London coachbuilder Lionel Lakin patents the first ‘unsinkable lifeboat’. Wednesday – 3rd November 1783: John Austin, a …
Monday Miscellanea
Last week on Londonist, in numbers then translated into a visual pictogram: 125 metres from South Quay DLR station where a new South Quay DLR station has been built 3 years (or nearly) lifespan of London Lite, now to disappear from the streets just like …
Lost Rivers from Above: The Tyburn Part III
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. Part I brought us from the slopes of Hampstead to the ponds of Regents Park, and Part II led us across Oxford Street, but the Tyburn still has a lot of ground …
Lost Rivers from Above: The Tyburn Part II
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. The above plan is of a location not far south of the Regents Park ponds, where we left off in Part I. This is in fact Baker Street station, as it looked …
Lost Rivers from Above: The Tyburn Part I
The majority of London’s Thames tributaries now lie beneath the urban crust, and there’s more than just the Fleet down there. Think more along the lines of fifteen-odd waterways, each shaping the city in its own way. Though most are well concealed, if you want …
