Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

London, United Kingdom. The Middlesex Hospital was home to one of the world's first dedicated cancer wards and hosted the nineteenth-century surgeon Charles Bell.

London, United Kingdom. A brief history of Postman’s Park and the Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice

London, United Kingdom. Elephants, big cats, monkeys and everything in between all packed into a first-floor petting zoo. What could go wrong? Lots, it turned out, but not before Exeter Change became one of Georgian London’s most famous attractions introducing thousands of people to exotic beasts from around the world for the very first time.

London, United Kingdom. Before The National Gallery, a gigantic Georgian stable complex stood here, tending to the needs of over 200 royal horses and housing dozens of workers. The King’s Mews was at the heart of one of the biggest urban horse populations in the world and an equestrian craze that gripped an entire nation.

London, United Kingdom. Two strips of land running either side of the Turnmill Brook between Farringdon and Clerkenwell provided an ideal spot to fatten pigs in the 18th century. Some considered them a filthy nuisance, others valuable recycling machines. This place takes us to the heart of that conflict. Wellies recommended.

London, United Kingdom. Too often overlooked as an industrial pilgrimage site, it was here that muscle power, horse and human, combined with steam to propel beer into the modern age.

Córdoba, Argentina. This viewpoint details the beginnings of the whitening process in Argentina.

London, United Kingdom. It was this building that gave its name to the charity set up in the 1915 to provide rehabilitation, training and lifelong support to those who lost their sight in war.

London, United Kingdom. After the First World War, the blinded veterans charity St Dunstan's opened a shop on Regent Street to sell the craft items the men had been trained to make in their workshops.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint looks at the historic Marshall Street Baths and its role in hosting international swimming galas during the Second World War.