London Street Guide @LondonStreetGu4
A street by street guide to Greater London, its history and how your street got its name. Over 5k streets from 200+ #London postcodes. Follow for updates. londonstreetguide.com London, UK Joined April 2020-
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The London street where time has stood still: Roupell Street just minutes from Waterloo Station. It was laid out in the 1820s by John Roupell as workers cottages and, visually, has barely changed since.
“In the High Street is this 17th century bow-windowed inn, the ‘castle’, a picturesque reminder of coaching days.” From my post on Curious Battersea at alondoninheritance.com/london-books/c…
Dewhurst Road, off Blythe road W14, circa 1910
Bricklayers Arms roundabout #Bermondsey to Elephant 1973 #Walworth
Dec 1918 - the captured German U Boat, the U-155 in St Katharine Docks alongside the 'mystery ship' HMS Suffolk Coast. Mystery ships were often scruffy little colliers, and fishing boats, but these facades hid 12-pounders and Maxim guns the-east-end.co.uk #History #eastend
The view looking west down Kensington High Street in 1820. On the right is St Mary Abbot’s church, as it used to look - before being rebuilt in the 1870s.
Charlie Rouse - one of the last London Watchmen (before the advent of a formal Police Force in London in 1829) armed with rattle, truncheon - and cutlass. He was never accused of misgendering anyone…! the-east-end.co.uk #eastend #history #Police
A grand ceremony today in 1873, led by the Lord Mayor of London, was held on Kew Bridge to mark the bridge becoming toll-free. Read here about the original bridge at Kew and its successor thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-first-and-…
The Arundel Arms, 146-148 Boleyn Road, Stoke Newington (1936-2013). Designed by Truman brewery's prolific principal architect, Arthur Edward Sewell who also designed the Red Lion, Rose & Crown and Army & Navy in the area. He designed around 50 pubs during the interwar years.
Having an enjoyable pint in The Cheshire Cheese just off The Strand. #londonpub #temple #thestrand
Paxton & Whitfield is an artisan cheesemonger that first started as a humble market stall in 1742. The 93 Jermyn Street store, has been here since 1896. and is one of the first cheesemongers to introduce Stilton to polite London society.
#LoveLondonWalkLondon come along & as well as tracing the line of #HiddenRiver Tyburn you can also see the best street sculptures in London - a few tix left for this Sat 9/12 at 11am-FREE WALK tracing the line of the River Tyburn from Hampstead to Pimlico eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-walk-tr…
Seen at the splendid Vintners Hall, City of London: 1539 pall with panels of Death dragging coffin amid strewn bones. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.
News Twyford villagers managed to get the apostrophe returned to the street sign of St Mary’s Terrace was welcomed, not least by @Apostrophe_Soc. But then you have an added apostrophe in Baron's Court Road, in Barons Court. And as for Earl's Court.. londonstreetguide.com/barons-court-r…
On the face of it Barnsbury in Islington has little connecting it with Bernières, in Calvados... But delve into the past, add an execution and hey presto the the bond between the two places is revealed. How Barnsbury got its name... London History londonstreetguide.com/barnsbury-road…
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Another Lewisham pub gone ☹️ Kate Bush played here back in the day.
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@johnsweeneyroar next time you're in London, maybe visit this new street sign... it's close to the Russian Embassy 👇
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The old watchhouse in Rotherhithe, built in 1824 to keep watch over the graveyard of St Mary’s Church, keeping the bodies safe from graverobbers and bodysnatchers. Today the WatchHouse cafe!
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