Samuel Leigh's map, a Panorama of Remarkable Remarkable Objects in London, was designed to help visitors navigate the extraordinary...

Dunlop issued their attractive "Map of Central London and its Literary Associations" as a magazine advertisment and as a leaflet. The...

In 1947 Francis Chichester first published his "Heart of London" pictorial map as a jigsaw and a folding map. In 1951 the map was greatly...

In comparison to his other achievements Francis Chichester's maps and jigsaws are often forgotten. His splendid "Heart of London" map and...

In the early 1920s the Improved Wood Pavement Company issued a promotional map of London showing the extent of their wood paved roads,...

"Map of the River Thames" by Joseph Mears Launches & Motors Ltd. of 5 Hill Street, Richmond around 1914. Cartography by George Philip Ltd.

In 1949 Phoenix House Ltd. published their Air-Photo Atlas of London. The aerial maps provide a "street guide from the air" to post-war...

This is the index to the 1949, Phoenix House Ltd., Air-Photo Atlas of London. For the complete set of maps & images from the atlas please...

The Soho Cityscape 1991/92 is one of my favourite London maps. The locations of sights, shops, food places, pubs and entertainments from...

The legend of Phyllis Pearsall, founder of Geographers' A-Z Map Company, has become controversial in recent years. The debate about...

Ed Gray, arguably the greatest living painter of London and Londoners, is set to unveil his stunning new London panorama at his biggest...

For the first time online here are high quality images of Samuel & Nathaniel Buck's complete sequence of five views of London as...

Claes Visscher's Panorama of London in 1616 is one of the finest views we have of London before the Great Fire. It is over two metres...

"The removal of the tides from the London Reaches is, in my opinion, the greatest single measure that can be taken for the benefit of...

In 1880 Herbert Fry published London a handbook for Victorian visitors. The popular book ran to many editions. A major factor for its...

In October 1905 King Edward VII officially opened Kingsway and Aldwych; "The largest and most important improvement in London since the...

In 1940 Sir Edwin Lutyens, President of the Royal Academy, formed a committee to prepare a report on the “ideal” possibilities that could...

In January 1940 Sir Edwin Lutyens, President of the Royal Academy (RA), invited architect members of the RA, and others, to form a...

Arthur Cawston, ARIBA, was a lesser known Scottish architect with huge ambitions but thankfully little influence. In 1893 he published A...

These images show Tower Bridge under construction in the 1880s. At the offices of one of the original contractors, management had decided...