Description
This is London: A Very Local History, the podcast where we visit the different areas of London one by one, zooming in on each place’s unique history and present day character, offering a more detailed picture of this fascinating, curious and sometimes overwhelming metropolis.
In Season 1 we'll be kicking things off with an overview of London's near 2000 year history split across four episodes, before getting into our regular format looking at the areas of Camberwell, Peckham and Waterloo. Intro episodes drop Monday 10th June - subscribe for alerts.
The final episode of our first season - Waterloo! Waterloo! F.K.A. Lambeth Marsh. Named after a famous battle - but it was given to the bridge before the train station. From then on it’s a very railways sort of story, UNTIL the post war redevelopment of the Southbank. An alternative theatre land,...
Published 07/01/24
T.I.T. and a Saxon place name - is it taken from the river or the hills though? In the rest of the episode we track an increasingly familiar residential and transport boom, from retail wonderland to uncertain prosperity. And what of the great RYE - with a history taking in wild beast shows, whale...
Published 06/24/24