links for 2013-10-28
Turn your speakers down to bypass the twee soundtrack, and then take a trip flying through 17th Century London with the students of De Montfort University.
It looks strangely like… 21st Century Colchester.
Whoops.
via @mattfromlondon.
Sticking with an overhead theme:
Image: via @thegentleauthor.
“In my dream, I am flying over old London and the clouds part like curtains to reveal a vision of the monochrome city lying far beneath, swathed eternally in mist and deep shadow.”
More ACE glass slides from the collection of the London and Middlesex Archeological Society, via @thegentleauthor.
It’s the relative flatness of the city that sticks out. St Paul’s dominates - and still does to a certain extent; other church spires define the locality. The old river appears gloriously anarchic, yet still plots that familiar curve.
Superb online hyperlocal history.
Waterloo Bridge, 1924.
via the mighty @urban75.
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