Viewpoints – Placecloud

Southampton, United Kingdom. Once capable of making up to 20 million bricks a year they are the only steam driven brickworks left in the country.

United Kingdom. An account of a patch of land between Fleet Street and the Thames. Now occupied residentially by judges and senior lawyers and enclosing the Inner Temple library and nearby Temple Church, the land was originally leased by the Knights Templar in the fourteenth century. Its rose garden was later - according to William Shakespeare - the place where the fifteenth century War of the Ros...

United Kingdom. Famous Fleet street pub dating from the sixteenth century, haunt of a gamut of literary types including Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, Charles Dickens and the imaginary Hercule Poirot

London, United Kingdom. St Pancras Old Churchyard has a turbulent past, from body snatching to an unexpected walrus. Memorials in the churchyard recall the invasion of the railway, which gave the writer Thomas Hardy one of his earliest, and most gruesome jobs.

United Kingdom. One of the largest medieval public toilets stood on this site for over four centuries. Explore the turbulent history of Dick Whittington's Longhouse, founded by the famous Lord Mayor of London.

London, United Kingdom. Two blue plaques, almost side-by-side in Tavistock Place, commemorate very different people. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the USSR with no sense of humour, and Jerome K Jerome, a British humourist with a sceptical take on Socialism.

United Kingdom. Peel back the centuries on a walk down St John's Lane exploring the industrial, literary and religious histories of this street.

United Kingdom. The story of the church of St Dunstan-in-the-East, surviving and not surviving disaster after disaster since its foundation around 1100. Expect the devil having his nose burnt, the Great Fire doing its worst, and Samuel Pepys narrowly avoiding a couple of armed rogues.

London, United Kingdom. A potted history of the RAC club on Pall Mall. Housed in very grand buildings near to Buckingham Palace that were once used as the War Office, the RAC offers members an Edwardian marble swimming pool, Turkish baths, squash courts and chandeliered drawing rooms.

London, United Kingdom. The Wren church where William Blake, radical English poet, painter and engraver, was Christened on Sunday 11th December 1757.

London, United Kingdom. The site where radical English poet, painter and engraver, William Blake, lived with his wife Catherine for five years, and where he developed his revolutionary printmaking technique.

United Kingdom. Where William Blake, at the age of 8, saw a vision of a tree "filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars."

London, United Kingdom. The site of the workshop of the engraver James Basire, to whom visionary artist William Blake was apprenticed, 1772-1779

London, United Kingdom. Frederick's Place, in the City of London, used to be called Gropecunt Lane in the medieval period due to its many brothels. As nearby Milk Street and Bread Street can attest, medieval Londoners valued pragmatism above all in their naming of streets.

United Kingdom. The statue of the Golden Boy marks the spot where the Great Fire of London was finally stopped. It sits at the corner of Cock Lane in Smithfield, so-named because of the many brothels lining the street.

London, United Kingdom. Up to 15,000 sex workers and their kin are buried here at Crossbones Churchyard in Lambeth, unhallowed ground since sex workers were designated unrepentant sinners by the Church.

United Kingdom. A fascinating account of the rules & regulations, including financial instruments, surrounding the brothels industry in medieval Lambeth, which paid for the erection of Winchester Palace

London, United Kingdom. Until the C16th, the area next to the river in Lambeth was home to the so-called Bankside Stews, a collection of bathhouses that doubled as brothels.