Links tagged with “london”
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U.K. Cinemas : London
Seating capacities of different screens. (via antimega)
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The Agas Map
Really nicely done zoomable, clickable, searchable perspective map of London from the 16th century. Very good.
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Lost & Found in Borough — Medium
Ugh, the things people just throw out. Loads of 19th century plans, documents, etc thrown out by an estate agent on Borough High Street.
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39 ways to save on theatre tickets - London Undiscovered
Surprisingly, a not terrible list, with some things I didn’t know about.
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Salary benchmarking for London - Cogs Agency Cogs Agency
2015/16. Interesting, although I take these with a pinch of salt. And all the tables are an image, so they obviously want to keep this data hidden from some people.
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chris dorley-brown
Some lovely photos of mostly east London. Good colours and more. (via The Online Photographer)
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Home - London’s Silent Cinemas
“It documents the early lives of over 700 cinemas across London and its suburbs” from 1906 to around 1930. The map’s really good.
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Search Films - London Cinema
A nice site for finding what films are on near a location. (via @jobby)
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Bespoke Plywood Furniture
“Designed and manufactured in London.”
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High Paddington - Sergei Kadleigh, 1952 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A brochure about a plan to house 8,000 people in 30-storey towers over Paddington Goods Yard in London.
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NFL’s British accent - SBNation.com
On British fans of NFL football (as opposed to fans of British American football), and why they’re not bothered about getting a London NFL franchise.
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Pubwatch: The Gladstone Arms | Deserter
Nice, sad, angry piece about London’s continued development, at any price. (via The Londonist)
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Design Jobs / It’s Nice That Jobsboard
I imagine this has jobs at some nice places (and the usual), given it’s from It’s Nice That. And I’ll forget the name if I don’t bookmark it. (via @iamdanw)
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Bike Shop in East London | Isambard’s Vintage Bicycles
On Bethnal Green Road, they restore and rebuild old bikes with new components.
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The Steeple Times – Crashing Assange
From 2011, about people who repeatedly blag their way into posh parties and receptions. A little bizarre. Also read Victoria Coren’s articles, linked at the bottom. And a Tumblr of photos in the comments.
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Insurance Plan of London Vol. VI: sheet 135 – 1887 – Chas E Goad Limited – Chas E Goad Limited – Visualize
After a lot of clicking through lists of sheets I found this 1887 map of where we live. So many buildings. Book marblers! Feather warehouse! Umbrella factory! Tranters Temperance Hotel! Nicely done, British Library.
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Fire insurance maps and plans
The dull title, and initial interface, doesn’t do this collection justice. Really, really detailed old maps of towns - lots of London - showing individual buildings and usage, each sheet carefully overlaid onto Google maps. It’s an effort to find a particular area though.
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Timo Arnall - People using phones, today in London.
Some lovely animated gifs from Timo. Hypnotic.
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Skills Matter
Opening July 2015, “CodeNode, our new 23,000 sqft Tech Events and Community venue”. Looks nice, and big. On South Place, just west of Liverpool Street station. That City / “Tech City” border is getting very blurry. (via @tomstuart)
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London, England - Google Maps
My second appearance (that I know of) on Google Street View.
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Signs at the Royal Festival Hall | Journal | Hyphen Press
On the typefaces used, then and now.
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Minimum salary required in London: £500k? | FIRE v London
Staggering. You might need something to take out your anger on.
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Kokos
Shoe repairers and retailers in East Finchley. Apparently repair shoes for C&J and Lobb.
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2015-03-18 Bernard Morgan House Brochure.pdf - Google Drive
On Golden Lane. I really like this understated post-war police section house. I may be pessimistic, but I assume it will be replaced with something much bulkier, less human-feeling. We’ll see. (via The Ben Jonson House Blog)
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Development Aesthetics
Relentless images of and comment on the hoardings surrounding new developments, mostly in London.
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zupamarket_en
Brutalist tower block paper cut-out models, with a set of London buildings. (via @cityofsound)
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The Knowledge, London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS
This long, good article everyone linked to a while back is indeed long and good.
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Video: Kristin Baybars’ ‘Little Place in Gospel Oak’ -
This toyshop used to be one of the highlights of a stay in London when I was a kid, and it looks like it hasn’t changed since. Worth a visit with your own children.
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Barbican Weather Data
Very local weather data.
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Salary benchmarking for London 2014/2015 - Cogs Agency Cogs Agency
Salaries and freelance rates for a variety of roles.
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diamond geezer - Friday, October 03, 2014
On the branding of ‘Midtown’ in London, and other sponsored rebrandings. Some comments date ‘Midtown’ back quite a while in some industries. (via Londonist)
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Barbican: A Unique Walled City Within The City | gail borthwick - Academia.edu (PDF)
A dissertation (no idea what for) about the Barbican. Some good history and old plans, photos, etc.
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Owen Hatherley reviews ‘Guide to the Architecture of London’ by Edward Jones and Christopher Woodward · LRB 21 August 2014
I’m not sure this makes me want to read the book under review, but the review itself is a good read if you’re into London and/or architecture.
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QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited
“We’re a creative data science agency.” Dataviz type stuff. London.
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Pubstandards.pdf
A chart showing the movement of people in London’s Pub Standards community from one company to another. I was looking for this and couldn’t find it and now it’s here.
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Met Police encourages Twitter pile-ons (with images, tweets) · anyabike · Storify
Interesting, in an unpleasant way, to see how Twitter etiquette, and tone of voice, and the blurry lines between personal / professional Twitter accounts make this kind of thing get a bit horrible. (via @mildlydiverting)
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A City of London report on potential options for improving Beech Street (PDF)
The phrase “lipstick on a pig” springs to mind, because there’s so little that’s feasible. Making the road more pleasant, somehow, *and* improving access to the podium level, *and* getting rid of the yellow Exhibition Halls tunnel up there, would all be good.
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Archeological Desk Based Assessment of 141-47 Whitecross Street (PDF)
Interesting to see the what they need to assess before redeveloping even quite a small site like this, with information going back to Palaeolithic times.
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Unlimited 4G Home Broadband in London | Relish
Looks interesting. £20 per month for 4G broadband at home. So no need for a landline. People at the Barbican have been getting good speeds so far.
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Locating London’s Past
Amazingly good versions of the 1746 Rocque map of London, and the first (1869-80) OS map. All fully tiled, zoomable searchable, etc. The mapping methodology page makes me glad I never tried this. (via @agpublic)
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Matthew Levi - Comparing Cities: How does quality of life in London compare to that in New York City?
Long, reasonable, comparison of living in the two cities.
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The Pedway: Elevating London
I had some problems with this (eg, the commentators all have the same opinion, the shots of today’s walkways make them look more derelict and deserted than they are) but it’s still well worth a watch.
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A new (dashing) tailor discovered - Permanent Style
A post from 2009. Sounds vaguely affordable. Well, compared to Saville Row. And this writer seems very happy with them. Loads of good stuff in this blog’s archives; an education.
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A Typographic Survey of the City of London: Part One
Part One of a revised, longer, edition of a film about the City’s typography which was around a few years back but was taken offline. Other part(s) to come, apparently.
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London’s Great Exodus
Seen lots of links to this today. Rather depressing, if you want London to be somewhere you and your friends can afford to live. “The city is essentially a tax haven with great theater, free museums and formidable dining.”
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This at There
Very nice list of art / exhibitions on in London, ordered by how soon they close, from It’s Nice That. (via @antimega)
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Tecznts - The construction of “Big Ben” in London in 1859…
If you rely on Big Ben to set your timepieces - and who doesn’t? - this 1875 map shows you how to adjust for the delay of the sound reaching you, depending on where you are in London. So good.
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John Bryce SWE RE - Along the Thames
This was also at the Bankside Gallery. Tiny, slightly twee, but very nice. He doesn’t seem to have a website, but Google images turns up a few others, many detailed London views.
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Six Snapshots of St Paul’s - Anne Desmet
Saw a single version of this Bankside Gallery today. Nice, tiny, detailed. A good not-touristy, vertical London landscape.