Viewpoints – Placecloud

Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. In the late 1970s a group of squatters in Notting Hill declared their independence from the United Kingdom and called upon UN peacekeepers to protect them from eviction. Hear their story here.

London, United Kingdom. Learn about the history and evolution of fried chicken shops in London through the lens of South London's finest.

London, United Kingdom. The Astoria Picture Theatre and Dance Hall opened in 1927, quickly becoming a popular spot for socialising and dancing. The Astoria was built during the British dancing ‘boom’ of the 1910s and 1920s.

London, United Kingdom. How could the launch of a theatre with the most modern, prize-winning stage machinery go so disastrously wrong?

London, United Kingdom. Bentham's skeletal "auto-icon" watches students in UCL's hallways. In life Bentham believed that surveillance could make us behave better. His dream of a Panopticon penitentiary was never realised. Instead he became the first man to campaign against transportation to Australia.

London, United Kingdom. Simpsons of Piccadilly. The elegant premises for Simpsons mens outfitters, designed by Joseph Emberton in Portland stone and internally arranged by Laszlo Mohloy-Nagy.

London, United Kingdom. Step into a Sunday School 'Flower Show and Industrial Exhibition' from 1889 in Peckham to hear a rather disparaging newspaper report on the children's exhibits.

London, United Kingdom. Discover the work of Miranda and Octavia Hill's Kyrle Society, and their mission to 'bring beauty home to the people' in the late-nineteenth century.

London, United Kingdom. Discover the Spitalfields 'Home of Industry' where flowers were sent by train from the countryside to be distributed by the women of the Bible Flower Mission amongst the poor of the East End.

London, United Kingdom. Join me on a visit to a working people's flower show, held in the quiet square of Dean's Yard in Westminster in 1883, to find out why window-gardening was encouraged by social reformers in the Victorian era.