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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 1d

Thanks - that is a brilliant video

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Sir Arthur @sirarthurindeed.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 1d

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

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 · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 8d

Cannon Street Station in 1948 with the original roof, although without the glass which was removed during the war. From my post exploring the area at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/c...

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

Cannon Street Station in 1948 with the original roof, although without the glass which was removed during the war. From my post exploring the area at alondoninheritance.com/the-thames/c...

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

Pre-war traffic planning - The Greater London 1937 Highway Development Survey explored in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-histo...

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

Football on Parliament Hill in 1947, from my post on the history of the hill, also known as Traitors Hill, at alondoninheritance.com

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

August 1947 and football on Parliament Hill (or Traitors Hill), from today’s new post at alondoninheritance.com

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 11d

The Blue Posts – Corner of Broadwick Street and Berwick Street from my post on Soho pubs at alondoninheritance.com/londonpubs/s...

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A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social · 12d

St. Pancras Power Station, photographed by my father in 1951, showing how industrial sites were side by side with residential across London. From my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-infra...

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