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Category: Historic

Western Suburbs

23 August 2019 Ollie Historic

Drawn in a similar era to the historic map of Kew, here is another map from the archives of Transport for London at the Transport

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Kew

7 August 2019 Ollie Historic, Tourist

This decorative map, simply called “Kew”, was produced by Herry Perry of Vincent Brooks lithographers in 1929. It was part of a series of posters

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Alexandra Palace Guinea Season Ticket

7 June 2019 Ollie Historic

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

20 March 2019 Ollie Historic

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

5 March 2019 Ollie Data, Historic

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)

8 February 2019 Ollie Historic, Tube

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)

8 November 2018 Ollie Historic

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

26 September 2018 Ollie Historic

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

28 June 2018 Ollie Historic, Tube

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

7 June 2018 Ollie Art, Historic

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

14 May 2018 Ollie Historic, Tube

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

8 February 2018 Ollie Historic

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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