River Thames near Purfleet

1756 map of the proposed route of the New Road.
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Roy Mathieson Southwark Added: 27 Jun 2024 16:25 GMT	St Saviours My great grandmother was born in Bowling Green Lane in 1848. The family moved from there to Earl Terrace, Bermondsey in 1849. I have never been able to locate Earl Terrace on maps. Reply
Buckhurst Street, E1 Added: 26 Jun 2024 13:10 GMT	Buckhurst Street, E1 Mt grandfather, Thomas Walton Ward had a musical instrument workshop in Buckhurst Street from 1934 until the street was bombed during the war. Grandfather was a partner in the musical instrument firm of R.J. Ward and Sons of Liverpool. He died in 1945 and is buried in a common grave at Abney Park Cemetery. Reply
Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
Wedlake Street, W10 Added: 10 Jun 2024 19:31 GMT	Toll gate Close Did anyone live at Toll Gate Close, which was built in the area where the baths had been? Reply
Charles Black Middle Row, W10 Added: 24 May 2024 12:54 GMT	Middle Row, W10 Middle Row was notable for its bus garage, home of the number 7. Reply
Farm Place, W8 Added: 2 May 2024 16:14 GMT	Farm Place, W8 The previous name of Farm Place was Ernest St (no A) Reply

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Toll booths at the Dartford Crossing (2011) Credit: Wiki Commons/Darren Meacher TUM image id: 1686923201 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Tunnel boring machine being used in the western Dartford-Purfleet tunnel (1936). This was a compressed air driven pilot tunnel - the main tunnelling work would not take place until 20 years later. Credit: Ministry of Transport/Highways England TUM image id: 1606782590 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Littlebrook Deepwater Pier lies in the shadow of the Dartford Crossing’s Queen Elizabeth Bridge. It provided a mooring point for the nearby decommissioned Littlebrook Power Station. Credit: Google TUM image id: 1606784149 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Maps of the Environs of London (1932) Seemingly one of the highlights of London tourism in 1932 was the Pears Factory in Isleworth, Middlesex, according to the only picture on this map. Before the creation of the Greater London Council in 1965, the county boundaries in the region were quirky. We dealt with the County of London a few maps back. Middlesex was the second smallest county in England but unfortunate enough to be swallowed by the urban expansion of London between the wars. It made certain administrative coordination decisions difficult, with for example Hampstead run by County Hall, London but next door Willesden run by County Hall, Brentford with Edgware Road forming the border between the two. Hammersmith on the Thames in London meanwhile was opposite Barnes, Surrey but Putney, a mile downstream, was back in London. Kent and London split the Thamesmead area. Urban Bromley was part of the former whereas rural Eltham (in 1932) part of the latter. Essex, highly built up on the fringes of the capital, stretched all the way to the River Lea. West Ham, Stratford, Barking and Romford were all not in London. Hertfordshire had a strange salient which contained Barnet and run all the way, but for 200 yards, to Southgate station. The bundling of everything into the GLC in 1965 made a lot of political sense even if it made of lot of interesting geography redundant. Credit: George Philip and Son Ltd. TUM image id: 1715687465 Licence:	A matter of geometry TUM image id: 1713792388 Licence:
A map a day for the month of May Political map of the County of London (1930). That section of Woolwich north of the Thames, surrounded by Essex was quite an interesting anomaly. The borough had inherited these two exclaves from Kent when the borders of the new County of London had been drawn up in 1888. They continued to make no sense whatsoever until 1965 when the arrival of the Greater London Council abolished them, assigning them to Newham. TUM image id: 1713790993 Licence:	A map a day for the month of May This early map by Lea in 1690 shows the marshy banks of the River Thames. The north bank is solid marsh from Silvertown to Tilbury. Much of the south bank is too, but this has not been depicted so much by the cartographer. TUM image id: 1713790188 Licence:	A map a day for the month of May I have a bit of a map collection in my possession. Throughout May, I will be publishing one old map every day. This one is an 1855 London overview best seen on a desktop computer rather than a phone - you’ll be able to zoom into your favourite area of London in reasonable detail. The original is in much better definition which I will publish sections of at some point in the future. Credit: J.H. Colton TUM image id: 1713788502 Licence:	Facebook TUM image id: 1713788023 Licence:	Children enjoy themselves at a Christmas Party, on 25 December 1940, in a London underground shelter Credit: AP TUM image id: 1709119850 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Fortune-telling bird (1940s) - once a common sight in London markets Credit: Walter Joseph Collection/British Library TUM image id: 1710789861 Licence:	Modern family, London (1936) Credit: Horacio Coppola TUM image id: 1710789999 Licence:	Officers of the Women Police Service, led by Inspector Mary Allen (a former suffragette) London, May 1916. Later in life, her politics tended towards the authoritarian side TUM image id: 1710790162 Licence:	Scene outside a London school (1950s) The Frederick Wilfred Facebook page showcases the work of this wonderful London photographer operational between 1955 and 1965. https://www.facebook.com/Frederick.Wilfred.Photography Credit: Frederick Wilfred TUM image id: 1710790328 Licence:	“Englishmen read the Sunday Dispatch" (1935) Erich Salomon was a German photographer born in Berlin. A pioneer of modern photographic journalism, he was one of the first to use small format cameras (Leica). In 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz, dying there along with his wife and his son Credit: Erich Salomon TUM image id: 1713273355 Licence: