Viewpoints – Placecloud

London, United Kingdom. An unusual, Modernist-style, council estate built by the London County Council in the late 1920s and owing a little to the grand municipal blocks being built by Red Vienna in the same era.

London, United Kingdom. A small cottage estate built by Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough Council in 1928 - a monument to the ideals and reforming ambitions of Alfred and Ada Salter, Christian socialists and Labour pioneers.

Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. A cottage estate built by the London County Council from 1911 - 'the culminating achievement of the Council's venture into garden suburb planning before the First World War'.

Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. A 'Homes for Heroes' estate begun by the London County Council in 1919 and reckoned - with its Arts and Crafts touches and greenery and open space to be one of the Council's finest.

London, United Kingdom. A Denys Lasdun Grade II-listed masterpiece, council housing designed in innovative cluster block form for Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough Council and completed in 1959.

London, United Kingdom. One of a number of distinguished housing estates created by Camden Council in the 1960s and 70s and commonly regarded as some of the finest council housing in the land, now Grade II-listed.

London, United Kingdom. Discover the alley which housed the clubroom of the John Groom Watercress and Flower Girls' Christian Mission from 1866, where flower women could go for an early morning breakfast-and-bible-lesson after buying their flowers at the market.

London, United Kingdom. Come on a visit to the amusement halls of the Royal Westminster Aquarium where you'll be in good company with educated dogs, ladies on bicycles, frozen flowers, and - possibly - some fish...

Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. Discover the fields and glasshouses of the Walker farm at Ham in Richmond, a farm which exported its quality flower bulbs to Holland in the 1890s...

London, United Kingdom. Follow the Great Western Railway from Penzance to Paddington with its 'perishable' trains which carried fish and flowers to market from the 1860s, transforming the landscape and fortunes of the temperate Scilly Isles.

London, United Kingdom. The graffiti piece on Camden Lock Railway Bridge is considered to be the oldest surviving pieces of street art in Camden, having been created by John Bulley in 1989. Whilst working on a number of new shop signs in the area, Bulley was asked if he could come up with an idea for the Camden Lock Railway Bridge as it was about to be refurbished and repainted by British Rail. Kn...

London, United Kingdom. Although they may be easy to miss, Myddelton Passage in Clerkenwell contains a unique historical record as a series of numbers, letters and dates can be found carved into the brickwork on the left side of the passage, many of which were scratched onto the wall by officers of the London Metropolitan Police. The practice started at some point around the mid to late 19th centu...

London, United Kingdom. Sutton House is the oldest domestic building in Hackney and one of London’s last remaining Tudor houses, having been built in 1535 by Tudor Statesman and Secretary of State to King Henry VIII, Ralph Sadlier. Even though the house is called ‘Sutton House’, it was never the dwelling of Thomas Sutton who actually lived in the house next door. The house was originally called ‘B...

London, United Kingdom. Described as a "den of beasts", Newgate's women were often victims of circumstance who went on to make new lives after being transported to the colonies.

London, United Kingdom. When Pentonville "Model" Prison opened its doors in 1842 it was a great carceral experiment. One which turned its human guinea pigs insane spending 24 hours a day in total solitary confinement.

London, United Kingdom. The laboratory of 2 Plough Court, hub for Quaker scientists and inventors, and an ancestor to today's Glaxo Smith Kline.

London, United Kingdom. Known for its bad food and its worse atmosphere, the Hotel d'Italie is far from the most famous of Victorian restaurants. But in 1894 it was host to one of the most exciting literary dinners of the century - the launch party for the scandalous and decadent Yellow Book. With everyone from Aubrey Beardsley to W. B. Yeats, it was a night to remember! Listen to find out more .....

London, United Kingdom. The wonderful inventions of John Joseph Merlin, immigrant, instrument maker, and socialite extraordinaire. With a poem about his inventions, to listen to while walking around Hanover Square.

London, United Kingdom. Here, in 1803, was one of the first public demonstrations of high-pressure steam locomotion, by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick, aka Captain Dick.

London, United Kingdom. In the eighteenth century, Leicester House was transformed to a since-lost museum. Among its curiosities was a stuffed Hippopotamus and objects brought to Britain by the colonist Captain James Cook.

London, United Kingdom. In 1791, workmen at the Tower of London discovered extensive historical graffiti left by prisoners - including the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey - centuries earlier.

London, United Kingdom. Although Wellclose Square Prison is now lost to history, the wooden walls of one of the cells survive at the Museum of London and are covered in graffiti documenting the distant voices of the incarcerated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

London, United Kingdom. In 1786, the bon ton flocked to Privy Gardens in Whitehall to attend a vast auction of curiosities, art works and antiquities owned by the deceased Duchess of Portland

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint explains why Nelson Mandela has a bust on the South Bank and the large-scale protests and festivals held in his name.

London, United Kingdom. The City of London Anti-Apartheid Group organised a continuous picket outside of South Africa's embassy in the late 1980s and ruffled the feathers of both the police and the national Anti Apartheid Movement.