: ' london maps'
The first A-Z
The story is almost certain in the main untrue, the first street-indexed map of London was drawn up in 1623 by John Norden [...]
All mapped out
You know how it is, you have been invited to a little soirée in Belgravia but, try as you might, you cannot find its location. This is what happened to Phyllis Pearsall one evening in 1935. [...]
Bomb Sights
In my house in suburban North London we had a joke about my Father’s war wound. Thankfully his war service concluded without injury, his garden fence on the other hand did not survive unscathed. Returning from [...]
City Limits
Ask any cabbie where the centre of London would be and you’ll get an unequivocal answer – The King Charles I Island in Trafalgar Square – there is even a plaque to prove this assumption. The [...]
Trap Streets
There is an apocryphal story which every generation of Knowledge students hears. It relates an appearance (test) when a Knowledge boy tells the examiner that you could turn right into Farringdon Street from Holborn Viaduct. The [...]
Dead boring
It’s the stuff of a science fiction writer’s dreams. Excavating in London one finds something buried that should have remained entombed forever. In the late 1950s BBC Television transmitted the Quatermass trilogy, culminating in Quatermass and The [...]
Order out of chaos
n CabbieBlog there are currently 180 posts and by far the most read has been a short introduction to London’s maps, so you might say that today’s contribution is back by popular demand. In any city [...]
Dying for a drink
The next time you find yourself in Soho, go to Broadwick Street where at one end you’ll find a village pump, while standing on the junction with Lexington Street is a pub rejoicing in the name [...]
Hexagonal London
earful those cabbies might take their customers for a proverbial as well as a literal ride by overcharging; in the middle of the 19th Century a slightly fanatical Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries published [...]
Don’t ask me I’m lost too
aps define an area in more than the most obvious of ways. They define the landscape and the people that live within it. They allow us to make sense of its complexities. None more so than [...]
The Knowledge on stage
The Charing Cross Theatre, for a limited season, has brought this very funny play to a London stage.
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The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945 by Laurence Ward
If you love London and maps this is for you. A full set of maps made up of 110 hand-coloured 1:2500 Ordnance Survey base sheets originally published in 1916 and updated by the LCC to 1940. Because they use the 1916 map, they give us a glimpse of a ‘lost London’, before post-war redevelopment schemes began to shape the modern city. The colouring applied to the maps records a scale of damage to London’s built environment during the war – the most detailed and complete survey of destruction caused by the aerial bombardment.
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Bismarck's Bench
Follow the link that's what the brewers claim.
Bismarck's Bench
Two things.First thing, thanks for reminding me about the "Courage
Bismarck's Bench
I think Bismarck was even before The Knowledge. All I've done is watch
Bismarck's Bench
Another excellent article. Almost sounds like you were there.
The Lions of London
They never taught me any of that at Hornchurch Grammar School!