London
United Kingdom · 13 collections · 115 locations
Nobody knows London whole. A Londoner knows a stretch of canal, a run of pubs, the one borough where Sunday happens. Put enough of those pieces together and you get the city these maps describe.
Places in London
- Princes Arcade — in London's covered shopping arcades
- Piccadilly Arcade — in London's covered shopping arcades
- St Alfege Church, Greenwich — in Nicholas Hawksmoor's London churches
- St George in the East — in Nicholas Hawksmoor's London churches
- Twickenham Bridge — in The bridges over the Thames inside London
- Hampton Court Bridge — in The bridges over the Thames inside London
Collections in London
- London's covered shopping arcades — Between 1818 and 1933 London built a run of glass-roofed shopping streets whose point was to keep mud off a hem, and five of them still run…
- Nicholas Hawksmoor's London churches — Parliament's Act of May 1711 funded fifty new churches out of a tax on coal, and it put Nicholas Hawksmoor in as surveyor to the commission…
- The bridges over the Thames inside London — Two systems hold up the crossings between Hampton Court and Tower Bridge. One is an 11th-century endowment that spends around £30 million a…
- London's independent record shops — Vinyl retail in London runs on specialisation and on buildings that were something else first: a brewery, a bus depot basement, a butcher's…
- Roman London you can still see — Most of what survives of Londinium sits a level or two below the modern street: under an office block on Lower Thames Street, beneath Bloom…
- London's theatres for children — London has only a few buildings that programme for children all year round. These five differ in the ways that matter before you book: the…
- London's jazz clubs — London jazz happens mostly below street level: a basement under the Polish cultural centre in Hammersmith, a cellar bar under Greenwich wit…
- London's city farms — London's city farms started in Kentish Town in 1972. Today they sit on an old railway depot, reclaimed dockland and the site of a wartime r…
- London's mainline railway termini — Trains stop at these stations and the journey carries on by tube, bus or foot, so the useful facts are the ones about what happens after th…
- The Royal Parks of London — Eight parcels of Crown land, enclosed for hunting by Tudor and Stuart monarchs and opened to the public over the following centuries, are s…
- London reading rooms open to non members — London's reading rooms sort themselves into two kinds: the ones you can walk into off the street, and the ones that want your name and a re…
- London homes of artists and writers kept as museums — London keeps an unusual number of writers' and painters' houses in something close to working order, and what separates them is how much of…
- London lidos that stay open through winter — Winter is when London's outdoor pools sort themselves out: a handful drain and lock up in September, while others keep the lanes marked and…
Subjects: Nightlife, Shopping, Nature & Outdoors, Culture & History, Sports & Recreation, Kids & Family, Study & Work Spots, Transport.