The History of London Pt. 4
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It's the final instalment in our overview of London's history. We’re into the last 100 years - and it’s chocka! Victorian goes Edwardian, Charles Booth’s poverty map, slum clearance, women’s suffrage, the first London Olympics, the First World War, the SECOND World War, post-war regeneration, The Festival of Britain, high rise estates, decline in the docklands, the Troubles in London, THE BIG BANG and a new millennium. Out of breath yet? Don’t worry, that's the lot.
Next Monday we begin dissecting the map of London with our first area episode, taking in the fresh south London air in Camberwell. Won’t you come and joiners?
Visual notes available on Instagram @averylocalhistory
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