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Exploring London's history starting with my father's photos from 1946, to the present day. https://alondoninheritance.com/

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Inside the Clifton Suspension Bridge. One of the chambers underneath an abutment, original builders rubble on the floor and stalactites hanging from the ceiling, from my post on the history of the bridge at alondoninheritance.com/cycling-arou...

14.10.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Inside the Clifton Suspension Bridge. One of the chambers underneath an abutment, original builders rubble on the floor and stalactites hanging from the ceiling, from my post on the history of the bridge at alondoninheritance.com/cycling-arou...

14.10.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Fountain House and Bastion House – Two Soon To Be Lost Podium Towers explored at alondoninheritance.com

12.10.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks

12.10.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fountain House and Bastion House – Two Soon To Be Lost Podium Towers explored at alondoninheritance.com

12.10.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A steam train leaving Waverley Station, Edinburgh in 1953 from my post with Then and Now photos of the city at alondoninheritance.com/cycling-arou...

11.10.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A steam train leaving Waverley Station, Edinburgh in 1953 from my post with Then and Now photos of the city at alondoninheritance.com/cycling-arou...

11.10.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The view through the door out to the narrow walkway that runs around the base of the Golden Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, from my post looking at views across London at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

10.10.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The view through the door out to the narrow walkway that runs around the base of the Golden Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, from my post looking at views across London at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

10.10.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Gun Tavern - A Tale Of Two Wappings - A London Inheritance The Gun Tavern in Wapping is a historic pub lost in Dundee Street. The Town of Ramsgate pub, St John of Wapping School add history to this area.

The Gun Tavern – A Tale Of Two Wappings. Post war photo by my father from my post on the story of the Gun at alondoninheritance.com/londonpubs/t...

09.10.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Forth Bridge - A London Inheritance Photos of the Forth Bridge in 1953 and 2016. Linking North and South Queensferry, including the original ferry and a possible walk across the bridge.

A journey across the Forth Bridge in 1953 at

alondoninheritance.com/cycling-arou...

09.10.2025 11:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Gun Tavern - A Tale Of Two Wappings - A London Inheritance The Gun Tavern in Wapping is a historic pub lost in Dundee Street. The Town of Ramsgate pub, St John of Wapping School add history to this area.

The Gun Tavern – A Tale Of Two Wappings. Post war photo by my father from my post on the story of the Gun at alondoninheritance.com/londonpubs/t...

09.10.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rail tracks from London Bridge Station cutting through south-east London from my post on the view from the Shard and the London Eye at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

08.10.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rail tracks from London Bridge Station cutting through south-east London from my post on the view from the Shard and the London Eye at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

08.10.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks - that is a brilliant video

07.10.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you'd like a closer view, I did this with my flying camera last year...

06.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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London Streets In The 1980s - Part 2 - A London Inheritance Join me for a walk through the streets of London in the 1980s. Streets that have since lost much of their individuality and colour.

Fowlers Stores in Old Ford Road, off Cambridge Heath Road between Bethnal Green Underground and Cambridge Heath Overground stations from my post London Streets In The 1980s at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...

07.10.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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31km from the Shard is the BT tower at Kelvedon Hatch, just north of Brentwood, Essex, built as part of a chain around the country for a microwave radio communications network for telephone, TV and more secure communications from alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

06.10.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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31km from the Shard is the BT tower at Kelvedon Hatch, just north of Brentwood, Essex, built as part of a chain around the country for a microwave radio communications network for telephone, TV and more secure communications from alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

06.10.2025 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s new post - A Battersea Gasholder, Two Churches and Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London at alondoninheritance.com

05.10.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s new post - A Battersea Gasholder, Two Churches and Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London at alondoninheritance.com

05.10.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today’s new post - A Battersea Gasholder, Two Churches and Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London at alondoninheritance.com

05.10.2025 06:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Parliament Hill (or Traitors Hill) - August 1947 - A London Inheritance Parliament Hill, or Traitors Hill at the southern end of Hampstead Heath, photographed in 1947. Gunpowder Plot and Civil War origins,

Last Sunday’s new post: Parliament Hill (or Traitors Hill) – August 1947 at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

04.10.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Map produced by the London Transport Executive and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for the Coronation of Elizabeth II on Tuesday 2nd June 1953 from my post on London Maps at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...

03.10.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Map produced by the London Transport Executive and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for the Coronation of Elizabeth II on Tuesday 2nd June 1953 from my post on London Maps at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...

03.10.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cornhill Water Pump - A London Inheritance The Cornhill Water pump stands where a source of water has been delivered to the City since 1282. The local area has seen little change in the last 70 years

The story of the Cornhill Water Pump at alondoninheritance.com/london-monum...

02.10.2025 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hole In The Wall Passage And The Cato Street Conspiracy - A London Inheritance Hole In The Wall Passage in Holborn does not exist, lost during post war reconstruction, however it holds a link to the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820

Hole In The Wall Passage And The Cato Street Conspiracy alondoninheritance.com/eventsandcer...

02.10.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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St Vedas and Foster Lane - A London Inheritance St Vedas, Foster Lane is a lovely Wren City of London church built after the Great Fire of London. My photo shows the bomb damaged church, now rebuilt.

The bombed landscape around St Vedas and Foster Lane, photographed in 1947, from my post exploring the history of the area at alondoninheritance.com/london-churc...

01.10.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building the Foundations of the Royal Festival Hall - A London Inheritance I haveΒ a number of photos of the Southbank as it was just after the war and prior to any demolition for the Festival of Britain, along with a few photos of the building of the Royal Festival Hall and ...

Some of my father's photos of "Building the Foundations of the Royal Festival Hall" at:
alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

01.10.2025 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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St Vedas and Foster Lane - A London Inheritance St Vedas, Foster Lane is a lovely Wren City of London church built after the Great Fire of London. My photo shows the bomb damaged church, now rebuilt.

The bombed landscape around St Vedas and Foster Lane, photographed in 1947, from my post exploring the history of the area at alondoninheritance.com/london-churc...

01.10.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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