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A steam train leaving Waverley Station, Edinburgh in 1953 from my post with Then and Now photos of the city at alondoninheritance.com/cycling-arou...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 14h

A steam train leaving Waverley Station, Edinburgh in 1953 from my post with Then and Now photos of the city at alondoninheritance.com/cycling-arou...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 1d

The view through the door out to the narrow walkway that runs around the base of the Golden Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, from my post looking at views across London at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 1d

The view through the door out to the narrow walkway that runs around the base of the Golden Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, from my post looking at views across London at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 2d

The Gun Tavern – A Tale Of Two Wappings. Post war photo by my father from my post on the story of the Gun at alondoninheritance.com/londonpubs/t...

The Gun Tavern - A Tale Of Two Wappings - A London Inheritance

The Gun Tavern in Wapping is a historic pub lost in Dundee Street. The Town of Ramsgate pub, St John of Wapping School add history to this area.

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A journey across the Forth Bridge in 1953 at

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The Forth Bridge - A London Inheritance

Photos of the Forth Bridge in 1953 and 2016. Linking North and South Queensferry, including the original ferry and a possible walk across the bridge.

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 2d

The Gun Tavern – A Tale Of Two Wappings. Post war photo by my father from my post on the story of the Gun at alondoninheritance.com/londonpubs/t...

The Gun Tavern - A Tale Of Two Wappings - A London Inheritance

The Gun Tavern in Wapping is a historic pub lost in Dundee Street. The Town of Ramsgate pub, St John of Wapping School add history to this area.

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 3d

Rail tracks from London Bridge Station cutting through south-east London from my post on the view from the Shard and the London Eye at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

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Rail tracks from London Bridge Station cutting through south-east London from my post on the view from the Shard and the London Eye at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks - that is a brilliant video

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Sir Arthur @sirarthurindeed.bsky.social · 5d

If you'd like a closer view, I did this with my flying camera last year...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 4d

Fowlers Stores in Old Ford Road, off Cambridge Heath Road between Bethnal Green Underground and Cambridge Heath Overground stations from my post London Streets In The 1980s at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...

London Streets In The 1980s - Part 2 - A London Inheritance

Join me for a walk through the streets of London in the 1980s. Streets that have since lost much of their individuality and colour.

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31km from the Shard is the BT tower at Kelvedon Hatch, just north of Brentwood, Essex, built as part of a chain around the country for a microwave radio communications network for telephone, TV and more secure communications from alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 5d

31km from the Shard is the BT tower at Kelvedon Hatch, just north of Brentwood, Essex, built as part of a chain around the country for a microwave radio communications network for telephone, TV and more secure communications from alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s new post - A Battersea Gasholder, Two Churches and Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London at alondoninheritance.com

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s new post - A Battersea Gasholder, Two Churches and Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London at alondoninheritance.com

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 6d

Today’s new post - A Battersea Gasholder, Two Churches and Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London at alondoninheritance.com

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 7d

Last Sunday’s new post: Parliament Hill (or Traitors Hill) – August 1947 at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...

Parliament Hill (or Traitors Hill) - August 1947 - A London Inheritance

Parliament Hill, or Traitors Hill at the southern end of Hampstead Heath, photographed in 1947. Gunpowder Plot and Civil War origins,

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 8d

Map produced by the London Transport Executive and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for the Coronation of Elizabeth II on Tuesday 2nd June 1953 from my post on London Maps at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 8d

Map produced by the London Transport Executive and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for the Coronation of Elizabeth II on Tuesday 2nd June 1953 from my post on London Maps at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 9d

The story of the Cornhill Water Pump at alondoninheritance.com/london-monum...

The Cornhill Water Pump - A London Inheritance

The Cornhill Water pump stands where a source of water has been delivered to the City since 1282. The local area has seen little change in the last 70 years

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 9d

Hole In The Wall Passage And The Cato Street Conspiracy alondoninheritance.com/eventsandcer...

Hole In The Wall Passage And The Cato Street Conspiracy - A London Inheritance

Hole In The Wall Passage in Holborn does not exist, lost during post war reconstruction, however it holds a link to the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820

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The bombed landscape around St Vedas and Foster Lane, photographed in 1947, from my post exploring the history of the area at alondoninheritance.com/london-churc...

St Vedas and Foster Lane - A London Inheritance

St Vedas, Foster Lane is a lovely Wren City of London church built after the Great Fire of London. My photo shows the bomb damaged church, now rebuilt.

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 10d

Some of my father's photos of "Building the Foundations of the Royal Festival Hall" at:
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Building the Foundations of the Royal Festival Hall - A London Inheritance

I have a number of photos of the Southbank as it was just after the war and prior to any demolition for the Festival of Britain, along with a few photos of the building of the Royal Festival Hall and ...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 10d

The bombed landscape around St Vedas and Foster Lane, photographed in 1947, from my post exploring the history of the area at alondoninheritance.com/london-churc...

St Vedas and Foster Lane - A London Inheritance

St Vedas, Foster Lane is a lovely Wren City of London church built after the Great Fire of London. My photo shows the bomb damaged church, now rebuilt.

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