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Hidden history: The burial mounds of Greenwich

I’ve been to Greenwich twice in my life once when I was at school, I can’t remember why except we looked at the Cutty Sark sat in the water, I have no other memory than that, it’s lost in the maze at Hampton Court, and in the stalls of the Old Vic...

Ghosts: London blitz aerial maps

Georeferencing, Rephotography, The Blitz

An iconic image from one German Heinkel III bomber showing another over Rotherhithe, the Surrey Commercial and West India Docks and Isle of Dogs to the right. Credit original: Southwark Library collection. 1940. CC Fair Use Wikipedia. Two German Dornier 17 bombers fly...

Jagger Swagger

The Great War

All cities are full of nexus points, the crossings of networks of roads that run the city. Because most of our major ant colonies grow irregularly, they form and coalesce around point sin the landscape and those points shift and change over time, one centre can...

The Blitz: The Firefighter’s Memorial

The Blitz

Entitled ‘blitz’ by artist John Mills. 997 firemen lost their lives in WW2, all listed on the plinth. It didn’t occur to me to check out the Norwich ones. Idiot that I am. If you care to look up photographs of St Paul’s Cathedral during the...

Hidden History: Novo Jewish Cemetery

Hidden history

A curious place, hidden in plain sight in the middle of Queen Mary University in Mile End in London. It’s a very old Sephardic jewish burial area the stones are higgeldy piggeldy and worn. I just didn’t realise it was there until we walked past it when we...