Viewpoints – Placecloud

London, United Kingdom. muf architecture/art designed a play street for people of all ages near Clissold Park, as part of the wider estate regeneration project.

London, United Kingdom. Park Street (Parkway) ladies’ toilets, Camden - public facilities which tell the story of women’s campaign for inclusive toilets.

London, United Kingdom. Vanbrugh Park Estate by Chamberlin Powell & Bon is a modernist development by the architects of the Barbican and Golden Lane, which prioritises communal external spaces, complete with outdoor laundry drying infrastructure.

Brest, Belarus. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated in the Russian Empire under a system known as regulation. This viewpoint examines how registered prostitutes resisted the regulation of prostitution and sought interaction with the authorities to achieve specific objectives. It focuses on a letter penned by 16 registered prostitutes living in Brest (now Belarus) in 1908...

London, United Kingdom. Waterloo Bridge, also known as ‘The Ladies’ Bridge,’ tells the recently uncovered story of women construction workers who built it during the WWII labour shortages.

London, United Kingdom. South East London’s beacon on a hill overlooking the city, the project is a triumph of council housing designed by Kate Mackintosh when she was only 26 and employed by Southwark Council.

London, United Kingdom. The nineteenth-century history of this now-famous medical institution includes stories of cancers cured with "animal magnetism"

London, United Kingdom. In this Placecloud essay, I take listeners to Battersea Park, a name synonymous with the rescue of cats and dogs. Between the Old English Garden and the bank of the River Thames, there is a statue of a dog. This statue was erected in the park in 1985, commissioned by British anti-vivisection groups, but to meet the dog it depicts, we have to look back over a century. This e...

Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. The Victorian designer, writer, and Socialist William Morris didn't love London, but he did love his home here on the Hammersmith Embankment.

Melbourne, Australia. St Patrick's Hall was home to the first Legislative Assembly in Victoria, but it also has an important role in the story of Irish community life in Melbourne.

London, United Kingdom. The Middlesex Hospital was home to one of the world's first dedicated cancer wards and hosted the nineteenth-century surgeon Charles Bell.

London, United Kingdom. A brief history of Postman’s Park and the Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice

London, United Kingdom. Elephants, big cats, monkeys and everything in between all packed into a first-floor petting zoo. What could go wrong? Lots, it turned out, but not before Exeter Change became one of Georgian London’s most famous attractions introducing thousands of people to exotic beasts from around the world for the very first time.

London, United Kingdom. Before The National Gallery, a gigantic Georgian stable complex stood here, tending to the needs of over 200 royal horses and housing dozens of workers. The King’s Mews was at the heart of one of the biggest urban horse populations in the world and an equestrian craze that gripped an entire nation.

London, United Kingdom. Two strips of land running either side of the Turnmill Brook between Farringdon and Clerkenwell provided an ideal spot to fatten pigs in the 18th century. Some considered them a filthy nuisance, others valuable recycling machines. This place takes us to the heart of that conflict. Wellies recommended.

London, United Kingdom. Too often overlooked as an industrial pilgrimage site, it was here that muscle power, horse and human, combined with steam to propel beer into the modern age.

Córdoba, Argentina. This viewpoint details the beginnings of the whitening process in Argentina.

London, United Kingdom. It was this building that gave its name to the charity set up in the 1915 to provide rehabilitation, training and lifelong support to those who lost their sight in war.

London, United Kingdom. After the First World War, the blinded veterans charity St Dunstan's opened a shop on Regent Street to sell the craft items the men had been trained to make in their workshops.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint looks at the historic Marshall Street Baths and its role in hosting international swimming galas during the Second World War.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint explores the history of Thames FC, a professional football club that existed for just four years.

London, United Kingdom. New Cross Stadium hosted speedway and greyhound racing and stood at the heart of sporting life south of the Thames for many years.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint explores the role of the Freemasons' Tavern in the foundation of the Football Association and the so-called 'birth' of association football.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint examines the history of one of London's best known sporting venues during the Second World War through eye-witness accounts.

London, United Kingdom. A dance from Playford's Dancing Master (1698) thought to have been named after the Red Bull Playhouse, an inn-yard theatre, built in 1605 in what is now Haywood's Place. During the early part of the 17th Century, the theatre was used by the Queen's Men, and their performances rivalled those at the Globe and the Fortune. During the Civil War and Interregnum, when other theat...