Viewpoints – Placecloud

London, United Kingdom. A potted history of the RAC club on Pall Mall. Housed in very grand buildings near to Buckingham Palace that were once used as the War Office, the RAC offers members an Edwardian marble swimming pool, Turkish baths, squash courts and chandeliered drawing rooms.

London, United Kingdom. The Wren church where William Blake, radical English poet, painter and engraver, was Christened on Sunday 11th December 1757.

London, United Kingdom. The site where radical English poet, painter and engraver, William Blake, lived with his wife Catherine for five years, and where he developed his revolutionary printmaking technique.

United Kingdom. Where William Blake, at the age of 8, saw a vision of a tree "filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars."

London, United Kingdom. The site of the workshop of the engraver James Basire, to whom visionary artist William Blake was apprenticed, 1772-1779

London, United Kingdom. Frederick's Place, in the City of London, used to be called Gropecunt Lane in the medieval period due to its many brothels. As nearby Milk Street and Bread Street can attest, medieval Londoners valued pragmatism above all in their naming of streets.

United Kingdom. The statue of the Golden Boy marks the spot where the Great Fire of London was finally stopped. It sits at the corner of Cock Lane in Smithfield, so-named because of the many brothels lining the street.

London, United Kingdom. Up to 15,000 sex workers and their kin are buried here at Crossbones Churchyard in Lambeth, unhallowed ground since sex workers were designated unrepentant sinners by the Church.

United Kingdom. A fascinating account of the rules & regulations, including financial instruments, surrounding the brothels industry in medieval Lambeth, which paid for the erection of Winchester Palace

London, United Kingdom. Until the C16th, the area next to the river in Lambeth was home to the so-called Bankside Stews, a collection of bathhouses that doubled as brothels.