[Updated] This map of London districts, was intended to be used as a grand “masterplan” of how a post-WW2 London could look. Each district appears
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Mind the Map: A Map by Macdonald Gill
This is an extract of a map produced in 1928 for London Transport by Macdonald Gill. He produced many maps in this “flowery” style, including
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A Guide to London 1908
The same day that James received a historic picture map of London that we eventually dated to around 1908, mainly based on the appearance of
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Bacon’s Picture Map of London
I recently managed to get my hands on one of my favourite maps of London. It is produced by G.W. Bacon and Co. Ltd and
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London Blitz Map
The image above is a photo of part of a large map of London, created just after the Second World War and showing buildings that
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Old Maps Online
We probably don’t feature enough old maps of London on here – we tend to go for the latest glitzy maps, but to make up,
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Wellingtons Grand Map of London
After featuring many very modern maps on Mapping London thus far, it was a pleasure to hear about the Grand Map of London, produced by
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A New Map of London Peculiars
We were delighted to receive a copy of this rather brilliant new map from artist Julia Forte. It highlights the sort of things in the
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Planning London: Maps from King’s Court Galleries
There is a shop in London that I always peer into when I walk past but have always resisted going in as it presented a
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The Times Atlas of London
A few months back I had the honour of being asked to approve the use of a couple of excerpts from my London Surname Map
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Whitehall – a Soviet Military View
As a followup to yesterday’s article on the Soviet Cold War maps of London, above is an extract sent from the Landmark Information Group, which
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Soviet Military Maps of London
Yes the U.S.S.R. had its own maps of London, and other British cities, produced during Cold War era, i.e. the 1950s-1980s, to be perhaps used
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