Viewpoints – Placecloud

London, United Kingdom. Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre. Sports complex featuring an athletics stadium, swimming pools, squash courts and an outdoor music venue.

London, United Kingdom. Daily Express Building, Fleet Street. Owen Williams sleek 1932 headquarters for the Daily Express, the future straight from the past.

London, United Kingdom. Former home of notorious black magician, Aleister Crowley, the "wickedest man in the world".

London, United Kingdom. Live music has been played at this location since 1942, and as the 100 Club since 1964. This viewpoint jumps into one of the venue’s most iconic periods and explores its association with punk music and fashion in the 1970s.

London, United Kingdom. Trafalgar Square has long been a site of marching and protest. This viewpoint takes us to one such moment in the square’s history: the Freedom to Party campaign rally on January 27th 1990.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint details the history of Lloyds Coffeehouse and it's connections to eighteenth-century maritime trade and global expansion

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint outlines the gambling culture of White's Coffeehouse and details some of the men you'd expect to find in an establishment like White's

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint is going to introduce you to Long-Acre's coach making industries and the famous eighteenth-century coachmaker John Hatchett

London, United Kingdom. Learn about the history of Jewish people in Mile End from the seventeenth to twentieth century

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint guides you through the architectural history of Trafalgar Square and of the National Gallery - and its criticism by architectural commentators.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint details the history of the building and design of Somerset House

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint guides you through some of the architectural history of the naval hospital at Greenwich

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint will uncover how modernist animal housing was used as a prototype for bold new homes for British citizens, under the guidance of Julian Huxley and other visionaries.

London, United Kingdom. In this viewpoint, Bevin Court – originally to be called Lenin Court – offers a lens for understanding how architectural modernism went from a movement associated with communist architects from abroad to a symbol of the British welfare state.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint will explore architect Ernő Goldfinger’s integration into contemporary British literary circles – far beyond his (frequently misreported) connection to Ian Fleming’s famous villain – and will use 2 Willow Road’s status as a National Trust property to consider how a once-iconoclastic modernism has been reclaimed as national heritage.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint will reveal how Senate House, notable for the “strangely semi-traditional, undecided modernism” that puzzled Pevsner, provided inspiration for George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

London, United Kingdom. The rowdy and disorderly funeral of Richard Russell in 1784. Russell was a local magistrate whose funeral was disrupted by the noise and behaviour of a large, enthusiastic crowd.

London, United Kingdom. Not all people at funerals were there to mourn. In this account we discover what happened when a member of the funeral crowd was found to be stealing from the pockets of those around him.

London, United Kingdom. The undertaker and coffin maker Barnard Feay lived and worked nearby. His premises are long gone but what remains of his business?

London, United Kingdom. The unfortunate tale of William Quarray who was killed by a hearse horse.

London, United Kingdom. Francis Lydia took some ostrich feathers from undertaker John White and was convicted for his crime. How did Lydia take the feathers and what would an undertaker do with them?

London, United Kingdom. Funeral spectators were expected to be mournful and well behaved – Jenkin Evans had other ideas.

London, United Kingdom. The story of Philip Baron, an undertaker who was robbed near the watch house in Holborn.

London, United Kingdom. The porters were an important but criticised part of life in London’s trading community as they distributed messages between individuals. Hear about the arrangements that porters made for the death of a member.

London, United Kingdom. Describing a grand funeral conducted by the Company of Upholders – including the room where the dead man rested at Exeter Change and the organisation of his long journey back home for burial.