Maj - 🇨🇦Every single building, street, plaza and park in London has a plaque at least this crazy.
#london #SevenDialsRaggedNightSchool #MontyPythonsFlyingCircus
Matthew NewellIn Seven Dials in the 19th century it would have taken the rest of ones life to walk across . The Rookeries were not places for outsiders. At some points Seven Dials was about as close as a no go zone that London has ever had. And now it's advertising agencies like Blue Ant, amazing coffee shops, and loads of interesting places
M. Grégoire@maj My family is always dragging away from the plaques before I'm ready to move on...
Space Hobo@maj https://carriereichardt.com/mosaic-house ← An artist's residence made their own blue plaque out of mosaic tile, and mocked English Heritage by calling it "English Hedonists"
Quite a few have been taken down or painted over (in a quite recondite act of cultural vandalism)
This was my favourite. There were at least two in Whitecross Market
@MatthewNewell @spacehobo related: I was just paging through this book of notable London locations when I went to Gays the Word:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/queer-history-london-public-loos
The St James's Park one is where my office is now. I wonder where the faux-old map is saying it was ? I know that area of London very well. I am guessing that it is St James's Park Underground station - close to the Guards barracks and lots of the Ministries.
@MatthewNewell @spacehobo this afternoon I walked from the Home Office through the park, around the pond, then into Soho.
The morning was London Bridge to Westminster.
My feet hurt.
That's a hell of a stroll but so many interesting places along the way. I work in one of the few dreary modern buildings (but not the magnificently brutalist old Home Office) on Queen Anne's Gate so you would have been very close
Annoying how autocorrect changes Soho to SoHo
@MatthewNewell @spacehobo I went up Storey Gate and then walked on Birdcage (if I have those right?) so, yes, right past you!
Lovely day. Wanted to get the walking done seeing tomorrow's forecast.
Lovely day. Wanted to get the walking done seeing tomorrow's forecast.
Storey's Gate - Methodist Central Hall plaque showing that first ever General Assembly of the United Nations held there
Birdcage Walk - such a beautiful road. The houses of Queen Anne's Gate which back onto Birdcage Walk are imo the most beautiful houses in London. Amazingly most of them are now back to being single dwellings - only bloated plutocrats need apply
@spacehobo Thank you for this! Love it with my entire hedonistic heart.
If you like walking London history you might find something of interest in these overlay maps. The site can take some getting used to - but when it works for you it's brilliant
@MatthewNewell ooooh. This is not going to make me get where I'm going any faster... Thank you!
Getting anywhere fast is not a London trait