Viewpoints – Placecloud

London, United Kingdom. What do the 'Housing of the Working Classes Act' of 1885, the Chubb Patent Lock and Safe Company, and a 'laughing jackass' have to do with one another? Find out in this short Viewpoint...

London, United Kingdom. Visit the window-gardens of nineteenth century Herbrand Street to explore why an experimental flower show in 1860 was thought to be a solution for the poor living conditions of the working-class parishioners of St George's, Bloomsbury.

London, United Kingdom. This viewpoint will explain how the structure’s inclusion in an ugly buildings competition brought to a head a larger “crisis of the English avant-garde,” to the lament of one prominent architectural critic.

London, United Kingdom. The Ring was one of the hubs of working-class sporting life in London, encapsulating the allegiances and rivalries of sport in the capital.

London, United Kingdom. In 1911 a new retailer opened up shop here. Yet this was no ordinary retailer. This was the grand new Trade Headquarters of the Salvation Army.

London, United Kingdom. This is the story of the murder of Captain Joseph Johns near Devonshire Square in 1747.

London, United Kingdom. Tyburn, that most famous of London execution sites.

London, United Kingdom. The Bunhill Fields burial ground was the first freehold property to be owned by Quakers in 1661, it is now peaceful gardens.

London, United Kingdom. Before Smithfield sold meat, it sold live animals and lots of them – thousands of cattle, sheep and pigs every single week – all of which had to be driven on-the-hoof through the streets of the world’s busiest city. The trade was worth a fortune but wreaked havoc.

London, United Kingdom. The pioneering female doctor set up this hospital for women in the nineteenth century against fierce opposition.