: ' London’s roads'
Twenty’s plenty
I’ve always thought of the 30 mph speed limit in London as having been imposed since the dawn of time. The recent seemingly draconian measure by many local authorities to reduce this to a blanket 20 [...]
The Non-Mad Way to Run a Car in London
Driving in London is hard work – I should know. In this Guest Post Daniel Solomou promotes the use of the Toyota Aygo and has some sage advice for London motorists, you could, of course, jump [...]
Goswell Street Road
One of the oft used and pointless pieces of trivia is that the City of London has no ’roads’. The Square Mile has streets aplenty, along with ‘Lanes’, ‘Gates’, ‘Gardens’, ‘Docks’, ‘Places’, ‘Alleys’, ‘Hills’ and ‘Yards’, [...]
Twenty’s plenty
Islington Council has a long history of discouraging the use of cars within its boundaries; passengers have told me of having their cars taken to the car pound one day after their residents’ permit expired. Another [...]
Goodbye Piccadilly
Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square or so the World War I song goes. Last week we could have been singing that verse all over again as a sector of the West End reverted back to a [...]
25 x 25 x 25
hirty years ago a friend of mine took our son and his lad for a Sunday afternoon stroll and in the days when civil engineering was not carried out 24-hours a day, he decided, for reasons [...]
Jaywalkers assist drivers
“In towns we may need to start considering some radical schemes such as removing kerbs so there are more hazards – like pedestrians – around your car. Our research suggests that this might actually improve people’s [...]
Circle of Fear
I had been on the Knowledge for two years and was starting to gain confidence in my ability to navigate around the City of London, when on an appearance my examiner handed me a pamphlet. “You’re to [...]
Slow boat from China
If ever evidence was needed to support the claim that London’s streets were paved with gold the place to find it would be Exhibition Road. This three-quarter-mile long road is undergoing a transition that in the [...]
Mounting concern over humps
report has recently been posted on line by honest john who seems to prove what many of London’s cabbies have been saying for years. Analysing hundreds of complaints from drivers who say ‘sleeping policemen’ are wreaking [...]
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!