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Pub wiki: London pubs, past and present

Pub history - how to research my ancestors. Pub history - how to research my ancestors..

Hidden London: histor­ically inclined look at the capital’s obscure attractions

Hidden London The world’s most visited online guide to lesser-known London, with illustrated articles on more than 750 localities and attractions. New pages added often.

The Underground Map: Exploring London, street by street

The Underground Map The Underground Map is a project which is creating street histories for the areas of London and surrounding counties lying inside the M25.

The London Eats List: Discovering the best food, drinks and things to do in London

The London Eats List Discovering the best food, drinks, and things to do in London

The Mapping London Blog: Highlighting the best London maps

Mapping London – Highlighting the best London maps 13 Bridges Challenge 20 June 2023 Ollie Events The 13 Bridges Challenge, organised by SSAFA (the Armed Forces charity) is taking place on Saturday 24 June (this Saturday) and participants will be walking More...

London The Inside: Keeping Londoners in the know with news and reviews across food, music, fashion and lifestyle. Born from a love of unlocking hidden gems in a big city, London on the Inside connects people to local and global brands, discoveries and experiences.

Homepage London's Biggest Independent Lifestyle publication curating the best of what's on in London from exhibitions, pop-ups, restaurants & more

Transport for London: the official TfL website

Keeping London moving Information on all forms of transport in London including cycle hire. Routes, maps, plan a journey, tickets sales, realtime traffic and travel updates.

diamond geezer: an eclectic blog about nearly everything London

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Ian Visits: A daily events guide to the capital

ianVisits - News and what's on in London London news and listings guide from ianVisits - news, history, architecture and transport affairs

Spitalfields Life: For people who care about the East End and are concerned about the future of its built environment

Spitalfields Life | In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London “Curious leaden figures discovered at Shadwell” read the shameless announcement published in the ‘Illustrated Times’ of February 26th 1859, placed there by George Eastwood, eager dealer in the works of Billy & Charley, two East End mudlarks turned forgers who succeeded in conning the London ...

London Historians: Random musings about London history

London Historians' Blog Random musings about London's history

The Agas Map: Civitas Londinum is a bird’s-eye view of London first printed from woodblocks in about 1561. Widely known as the Agas map. The map offers a richly detailed view both of the buildings and streets of the city and of its environment.

MoEML: The Map of Early Modern London The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) comprises four distinct, interoperable projects. MoEML began in 1999 as a digital atlas of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London based on the 1560s Agas woodcut map of the city. MoEML now includes an encyclopedia of early modern London people and places, a....

Transport For London: Tube, buses, rail and other public transport within London

Keeping London moving Information on all forms of transport in London including cycle hire. Routes, maps, plan a journey, tickets sales, realtime traffic and travel updates.

Know Your London: A place to find out about the history of Inner London

Know Your London A good place to find out about the history of Inner London. There’s no fake-history on this Website.

A London Miscellany: Random musings concerning London its streets, buildings, people and history

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Blendon Chapel House in Blackfen, Bexley was originally a small cottage modified in about 1765 by John Boyd of Danson to create a folly visible from his house.

It has always been used as a house despite its appearance.



Source: Bexley Archives

On 9 April 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7. Front row, left to right: Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.



Source: NASA

Arktika-M spacecraft entering high elliptical orbit after a launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage on 28 February 2021.

When flight tests are finished, we will have new ability to observe the Arctic region and ocean from space.

Photo:

Source: Roscosmos

British Museum (2020)



Source: https://pixabay.com/users/hulkiokantabak-11002754/

Stratford Broadway (date unknown)



Source: Old London postcard

Seven Kings High School

Seven Kings School - Wikipedia Seven Kings School, previously Seven Kings High School, is a co-educational comprehensive primary and secondary school located in Ilford in the London Borough of Redbridge, England. It caters for pupils aged 4–18 years old. Seven Kings School has separate primary and secondary classroom blocks loc...

Sherington Primary School

Charlton, London - Wikipedia Charlton is an area of southeast London, England, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is east of Greenwich and west of Woolwich, on the south bank of the River Thames, 7.2 miles (11.6 km) southeast of Charing Cross. An ancient parish in the county of Kent, it became part of the metropolitan area ...

The Pride of Spitalfields

The Pride of Spitalfields - Wikipedia The Pride of Spitalfields (formerly The Romford Arms) is a public house at 3 Heneage Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London, just off Brick Lane. It was associated with a Jack the Ripper suspect.

Flooding in Southborough Road (later Grantham Road) Manor Park, 1903



Source: Newham Archive

Aaron Hill Road



Source: GoArt/The Underground Map

Boleyn Tavern (2009)

The Boleyn Tavern is a Victorian pub building near to the Boleyn Ground, the former football ground of West Ham United.



Source: Ewan Munro

The renowned Two Puddings pub on the Broadway Stratford (1966)

Early in the twentieth century, the Two Puddings had became a notorious pub, known locally as ’The Butcher’s Shop’ on account of the amount of blood spilt. Some people would turn up at the pub for a Saturday night punch up rather than for a good time and a pint.

From 1962 until its closure in 2000, Eddie Johnson was landlord of the Two Puddings and he started to drastically change its reputation.

Eddie and wife Shirley were rock ’n’ roll fans and the Two Puddings - a.k.a. The Puddings or simply The Pud - became a prime venue with the UK’s first disco upstairs, later more of a nightclub. Coming along to the pub in the 1960s and beyond were television personalities, actors, writers, champion boxers, musicians, gangsters and footballers. Harry Redknapp met his wife Sandra there in 1963 and David Essex made his performing debut at the Puddings.

At the end of the 1990s, changes in the law required breweries to sell off pubs, including the Two Puddings. There was a court case that saw Eddie Johnson thrown out as landlord.

Because of his four decades in charge, Eddie Johnson was then London’s longest serving licensee. In 2012 he wrote a book about his experiences called ’Tales from the Two Puddings’. It was later made into a documentary.



Source: London Metropolitan Archives

The Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich was a Metropolitan borough in the County of London from 1900 to 1965.

Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich

Blake Hall Road (1916)

A postcard described as Leytonstone which is in an area more often called Wanstead nowadays.

The view is looking south, possibly from a viewpoint just south of Bush Road.



Source: Old London postcard

The many branches of Kumbunbur Creek in Australia’s Northern Territory are seen in this false-colour satellite image released by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute.

The green areas are the waterways of runoff that flow into the Timor Sea. Vegetation appears bright red in this colour-coded image, which was captured by the Kompsat-2 satellite.



Source: KARI

Greenwich Community College

London South East Colleges - Wikipedia Bromley College of Further and Higher Education, trading as London South East Colleges (LSEC), is a large college of further education and higher education operating in south-east London, England.[1] It is a partner college of six of the twelve schools of the University of Greenwich. LSEC was establ...

Tanyard Farm stood was at the end of Tanyard Lane, which is today called Elmwood Drive, off Bridgen Road, Bexley.

Mr Edward Bowler Watkins was born at Tanyard Farm and lived there for most of his life. He died in 1931 aged 91. By then the farm was no longer considered viable and in 1933, the landlord Robert Vansittart of Foots Cray Place sold the farm to developers.



Source: Bexley Archives

A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupts on the Sun.



Source: NASA

Spotter looking for German air raids during a Charlton v Arsenal match (1940)