Christina Faraday on Placecloud

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Come on a journey with me around London as we explore weird and wonderful inhabitants, events and places from history. For the geo-located experience, check them out on the Placecloud website.

  1. 09/28/2021

    John Joseph Merlin’s Museum of Mechanical Amusements

    From a mechanical garden to an automatic tea-table, in the early nineteenth-century you were bound to find something extraordinary at Merlin’s Museum of Mechanical Amusements. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud. Address: 11 Princes St, London W1B 2LJ

    6 min

  2. 09/28/2021

    Elizabethan Jousting at Whitehall Palace

    Join the crowds at a royal joust in honour of Elizabeth I. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud. Address: Whitehall, London SW1A 2AX

    6 min

  3. 09/28/2021

    Quarrelling Artisans at Whitehall Banqueting House

    The court performances of the early seventeenth century presented an image of perfect political harmony; but backstage the reality was very different. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud. Address: Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1A 2ER

    5 min

  4. 09/28/2021

    Samuel Pepys’s Cheese, Seething Lane

    Flames are racing towards your house: what do you save? In 1666, Samuel Pepys prioritised his cheese. A viewpoint originally recorded for Placecloud. Address: Seething Ln, EC3R, London EC3N 4AT

    5 min

  5. 09/28/2021

    Refugee Scholars in 1930s London: The Warburg Institute

    Scholars fleeing the burgeoning Nazi Party find a safe haven in 1930s Bloomsbury. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud. Address: The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

    6 min

  6. 09/28/2021

    Thomas Gemini’s Printer’s Shop in Blackfriars

    Polymath and rogue Thomas Gemini peddles his wares in Tudor Blackfriars. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud. Address: Somewhere around Playhouse Yard, London EC4V 5EX

    6 min

  7. 09/28/2021

    Frost Fairs on the Thames

    For more than a thousand years, in frosty weather the frozen Thames played host to spectacular festivals. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud. Address: Victoria Embankment, Temple, London WC2R 3AA

    6 min

  8. 09/28/2021

    Dr John Caius's House in Smithfield

    Step inside a sixteenth-century house in Smithfield. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud. Address: 85 Bartholomew Cl, London EC1A 7EB

    6 min
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Come on a journey with me around London as we explore weird and wonderful inhabitants, events and places from history. For the geo-located experience, check them out on the Placecloud website.

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