Christina Faraday on Placecloud

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 A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.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

Join the crowds at a royal joust in honour of Elizabeth I. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.

Address: Whitehall, London SW1A 2AX

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 A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.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

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

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 A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.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

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 A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.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

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 A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.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

Step inside a sixteenth-century house in Smithfield. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.

Address: 85 Bartholomew Cl, London EC1A 7EB

For Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway the clocks of Big Ben and St Margaret’s, Westminster do more than just tell the time. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.

Address: St Margaret St, London SW1P 3JX

In Elizabethan London, Richard Walweyn’s 'monstrous and outrageous' trousers were a literal crime of fashion. A viewpoint originally made for Placecloud.

Address: Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AE