This map, dating from 1875, appears on the back of a “Guinea season ticket” for entry to Alexandra Palace, in north London. The palace was
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Maritime Greenwich
The Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich reopens this weekend after a two-year renovation and restoration. At the entrance to the
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The Cholera Maps
The John Snow Cholera Map is world famous as the map that identified the cause of the disease, and was one of the first epidemiological
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London Suburban Lines 1939 (Modern Reproduction)
This lovely schematic diagram was first created in 1939 by George Dow. It shows the three LNER (London and North Eastern Railway) north London networks
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Trolleybus & Tram Routes (1947)
Readers of Mapping London, and Londoners in general, will be very familiar with the striking straight lines of the Tube Map. But you probably won’t
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Layers of London
Layers of London, which has just launched, aims to be a platform for geolocating and documenting the local history of the capital. It works by
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Moscow Metro Architecture & Design Map
A lot of Londoners are currently focused on the World Cup in Russia at the moment, so Mapping London is taking a look eastwards, thanks
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Maps of London & Beyond
Adam Dant has, for a long time, been sketching lovely maps of London history, culture and phenomena, often focusing in particular on the historic East
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Underground Railways of London, 1928
The Tube Map is a design classic – the straight lines, even spacing and lack of unnecessary above-ground detail has become a hall-mark of metro
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Chiswick Timeline
The Chiswick Timeline, a mural of maps showing the history of the pleasant west London neighbourhood, was successfully crowdfunded and launched last month. It appears
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Children’s Map of London
The Children’s Map of London (sometimes called the Children’s Pictorial Map of London) was drawn by Leslie Bullock and first published by Bartholomew in 1938,
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Songs of London Town
Songs of London Town replaces street names with song names. The pastel coloured, hand-drawn basemap is overlaid with hundreds of song titles, each arranged over
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