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Secret Rivers

Posted on Friday 24 January 2020 by Oliver O’Brien

London has a lot more rivers than just the River Thames and River Lea – but many of the rest are either very small and easily overlooked, or buried underground (culverted), typically by industrious Victorians looking to clean up channels that bec…

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Kew

Posted on Wednesday 7 August 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

This decorative map, simply called “Kew”, was produced by Herry Perry of Vincent Brooks lithographers in 1929. It was part of a series of posters commissioned for what is now Transport for London and actually depicts the area to the south o…

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Mary Poppins London

Posted on Wednesday 24 July 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

This stylised map of central London was created by MUTI, a South African design studio, and is “as seen in Mary Poppins Returns”. It was commissioned by High Life (the British Airways inflight magazine). It’s a nice bit of artistic ca…

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South of the River

Posted on Tuesday 2 July 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

We featured a map showing London’s North Bank earlier in the summer – just in time for the peak holiday season, the rivals across the Thames now have a new map of their own! “South of the River” aims to map everything of tourist…

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Landmarks of London

Posted on Wednesday 20 September 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

We featured Bridges of London earlier this week. However, the public realm relating to the Thames is more than the river itself and the bridges crossing it. One of London’s defining features, in recent times, as the Thames has cleaned and the spaces beside it have become less-traffic choked, is its riverside frontage. This lovely […]

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Bridges of London

Posted on Monday 18 September 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

The River Thames is London’s defining geographical feature and its inclusion is almost mandatory on any map attempting to cover the whole of the capital. Bridges are most Londoners’ visible contact with the river, with over 30 spanning the river in London, including elevated crossing by the so-called “Underground”. As such, illustrated maps of the […]

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River Services Map

Posted on Wednesday 19 April 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

Londoners will be very familiar with the crowded London Underground services and their famous diagrammatic Tube Map, but might be less familiar with another public transport network – boats on the River Thames. Yes, you can commute to work by catamaran – as long as you live and work close to the river. London’s river […]

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London’s Canals & Rivers

Posted on Tuesday 19 April 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

These attractive hand-drawn maps have been produced for a pocket guide “London’s Canals & Rivers” published by the Canal & River Trust by illustrator and cartographer Bek Cruddace. They show the navigable waterways around London, including the Thames and Lea Rivers and the Regent’s and Grand Union canals. The maps are designed for walkers and […]

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Josie Shenoy’s “River Thames”

Posted on Friday 27 November 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

Mapping London stumbled upon this lovely cartographic art-piece of London, created by illustrator Josie Shenoy, at her stall at the South Bank Christmas Market (almost underneath the southern end of the Hungerford Bridge that goes across to Charing Cross, near Foyles’s South Bank outpost). It’s called River Thames and is available as a print and […]

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