This year's book from the London Topographical Society captures ‘the audacity of laying a ribbon of stone across such a powerful river’ – and then building on it
This is a delightful book, its narrative flowing with the tidal reaches of the Thames from Teddington all the way east to Tilbury, right out on the Estuary.
We have a plan to visit all of London's 'Magnificent Seven' – the seven vast cemeteries laid out in the years on either side of 1840, around what was then the periphery of the city.
We've been enjoying these strikingly beautiful views of London by night, produced as promotional material by paint manufacturers Pinchin, Johnson & Co. Ltd.