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Rotherhithe Street and the old fire station in the distance (red ... last updated: 11/01/2008 at 13:56 created: 05/07/2005 You are in: London > Coast > Rotherhithe Street The BBC is not ...
Did your street make it unscathed through the ... The layer can be superimposed over modern London (or other historical maps) to see how the streetscape has changed with time.
A Thames Tour of Rotherhithe ... London's famous Deal Porters - athletic men who unloaded, carried and stacked the timber. As you walk around the quays you will notice foreign street names, old ...
A new map on the Layers of London site lets you compare suburban London in 1746 to the modern street map ... the University of London's Institute of Historical Research. It contains dozens ...
Steeped in maritime history, the house on Rotherhithe Street was built in 1743 for shipbuilder ... “It’s the prettiest house I’ve ever seen in London. I’m hoping it will be bought by ...
Three searchable maps chart the capital’s growth from the Tudor era to the Blitz in the digital project by the University of London’s Institute of Historical ... map of Fleet Street as it ...
In the 1960s, London County Council bought the remaining houses on the row but the owners of 41 Rotherhithe Street, barge constructors Braithwaite & Dean, refused to sell. The company employed ...
A Rotherhithe man has been charged with the murder of a 19-year-old man stabbed to death in Norwich. Kalvin Taylor, from London, was found dead on September 21 last year, eight days after he was ...
Detailed maps ... south London, the most notorious of which are Moscow17 in Kennington, the Ghetto Boys in Deptford and the Woolwich Boys on the banks of the Thames. 1. DBG 2. 9th Street ...
9 reasons why Balham is the best place to live in London ... cobble-stoned, historic, cool AF, delight. Let’s spread the SE16 love with five reasons why you should live in Rotherhithe.
Thanks to a cantilevered staircase by local firm Tate Harmer, members of the public will be granted access to one of London's best-kept pieces of engineering history. Rotherhithe shaft was ...