The Hand and Shears at 1 Middle Street at the junction with Cloth Fair, close to Smithfield, photographed by my father in 1952 from my post on the history of the pub at alondoninheritance.com/londonpubs/h...
11.12.2025 08:32 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A visit to the Thames River Police Museum and Hermitage Moorings. Lots of Thames history explored in my post at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/t...
10.12.2025 12:35 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This is the original Bankside Power Station, where Tate Modern now stands. Photo by my father in 1949, from my post exploring a Bankside Panorama, Then and Now at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
10.12.2025 20:50 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A visit to the Thames River Police Museum and Hermitage Moorings. Lots of Thames history explored in my post at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/t...
10.12.2025 12:35 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New Deal For East London – Bermondsey. The locations listed as at risk in 1972, explored then and now in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-build...
09.12.2025 12:34 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s new post - the story of one of the Festival of Britain exhibitions, The Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow along with some London Archaeology resources at alondoninheritance.com
07.12.2025 08:53 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last Sunday's new post - An Autumn View Over London from Westminster Cathedral at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
06.12.2025 21:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New Deal For East London – Bermondsey To Rotherhithe. Searching for the locations identified as at risk in 1972 in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-build...
05.12.2025 13:02 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New Deal For East London – Bermondsey To Rotherhithe. Searching for the locations identified as at risk in 1972 in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-build...
05.12.2025 13:02 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Roman Wall at Trinity Place, Tower Hill, being destroyed when that part of the Inner Circle Railway was constructed in 1882 from my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-monum...
04.12.2025 08:06 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One of the Then and Now photos from my post Warehouses and Barges in the Heart of the City, showing how the Thames has changed, at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/w...
03.12.2025 12:16 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s new post - An Autumn View Over London from Westminster Cathedral at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
30.11.2025 09:03 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s new post - An Autumn View Over London from Westminster Cathedral at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
30.11.2025 09:03 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An Autumn View Over London from Westminster Cathedral. Today’s new post at alondoninheritance.com
30.11.2025 07:58 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Ticket Porter – Arthur Street. One of London’s lost pubs, photographed in the late 1940s from my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...
29.11.2025 08:27 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Last Sunday’s new post - exploring the history of The King’s Chapel of the Savoy at
alondoninheritance.com/london-churc...
29.11.2025 20:36 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Ticket Porter – Arthur Street. One of London’s lost pubs, photographed in the late 1940s from my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...
29.11.2025 08:27 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
From The City To The Sea – Greenwich To Barking Creek. Building the Thame’s Barrier from my post at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/f...
28.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
From The City To The Sea – Greenwich To Barking Creek. Building the Thame’s Barrier from my post at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/f...
28.11.2025 12:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Red Sands fort built in a disused and derelict cement factory at Red Lion Wharf at Northfleet, near Gravesend. The fort was towed out and installed on site between May and December 1943 more in my post at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/f...
27.11.2025 08:10 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Climbing the Caledonian Park Clock Tower, a survivor from the Caledonian Market and with really good views over London. More in my post at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
27.11.2025 12:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Red Sands fort built in a disused and derelict cement factory at Red Lion Wharf at Northfleet, near Gravesend. The fort was towed out and installed on site between May and December 1943 more in my post at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/f...
27.11.2025 08:10 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
From The City To The Sea – Tower Pier To Greenwich. Part one of my posts exploring the Thames out to the estuary at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/f...
26.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Post War London from the Stone Gallery, St. Paul’s – The South and East. Cannon Street Station with the original roof running the whole length from the Thames facing towers to the station buildings facing onto Cannon Street. More at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
26.11.2025 08:09 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Win a copy of STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO
THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year)
🏆Win🏆the perfect Christmas 🎄 gift for a stones enthusiast:
STONE LANDS (on the Waterstones and Telegraph Best Books of 2025 lists) AND ALSO
THE OLD STONES (The Megalithic Portal guide, winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year)
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26.11.2025 12:22 — 👍 80 🔁 55 💬 2 📌 3
From The City To The Sea – Tower Pier To Greenwich. Part one of my posts exploring the Thames out to the estuary at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/f...
26.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Mystical misty archway. Photo taken this morning in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.
26.11.2025 08:35 — 👍 201 🔁 25 💬 6 📌 2
Postcard showing Hamble.
Postcard from Hamble. Sent to Hampstead in London in 1906. The Bugle (on the right) is still a popular pub today. The message on the back reads: ‘This is a little yachting village on Southampton Water. The children standing on the shore wish you good day.’
26.11.2025 08:45 — 👍 23 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Post War London from the Stone Gallery, St. Paul’s – The South and East. Cannon Street Station with the original roof running the whole length from the Thames facing towers to the station buildings facing onto Cannon Street. More at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
26.11.2025 08:09 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The church of St Mary-le-Bow with some of the bombed buildings of the City. Post war photo by my father, from my post on the church at alondoninheritance.com/london-churc...
25.11.2025 13:02 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Promoting the name and fame of the City of London and its diverse Livery Companies. #CityFact #LiveryFact
Michael Smith. Author, printmaker, translator and illustrator of medieval romances. Whimsy, art. Published by Wilton Square Books. PhD research University of York. Follows the Blackburn Rovers. www.mythicalbritain.co.uk.
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media
London Archaeologist is published 4 times a year, for anyone interested in London's archaeology
London explorer. Chief pilot of Londonist: Time Machine, a Substack about London History. Follow for lots of geeky observations about London.
The Library of London History.
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries/guildhall-library
Mostly photos taken while walking around my city and country.
Other interests: art, others' photos, buildings, maps, nature. Unless otherwise stated, photos are my own. 📷 Nikon
Walking, urban and rural. Londoner now residing in Wolverhampton. Feminist leftie married to a blokey bloke. Lover of music, local ales and libraries but maybe not all at the same time...
Ghost fiction, esp. MR James, Europe and Buster Keaton.
Archaeologist working in London
Official guides for Clerkenwell, Smithfield and Islington. Check out our walks - or book us to lead a walk for your business. https://islingtonguidedwalks.com/
The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Mum; works in HR; former teacher who is still interested in education. I love literature, history, art and music. Passionate about preserving beautiful architecture. Currently trying to learn French. Views own.
Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
Battlefield Guide - London at War
Cricket
Football (Charlton & Dulwich Hamlet)
Heritage Stuff
Movies
📍London, England
Historian (FRHistS), author of THE BOSS OF BETHNAL GREEN, a true foundation story of London’s East End and biography of Regency godfather Joseph Merceron.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boss-Bethnal-Green-Merceron-Godfather-ebook/dp/B086XFTWXK
