Viewpoints – Placecloud

London, United Kingdom. Waterloo Bridge, also known as ‘The Ladies’ Bridge,’ tells the recently uncovered story of women construction workers who built it during the WWII labour shortages.

London, United Kingdom. South East London’s beacon on a hill overlooking the city, the project is a triumph of council housing designed by Kate Mackintosh when she was only 26 and employed by Southwark Council.

London, United Kingdom. The nineteenth-century history of this now-famous medical institution includes stories of cancers cured with "animal magnetism"

London, United Kingdom. In this Placecloud essay, I take listeners to Battersea Park, a name synonymous with the rescue of cats and dogs. Between the Old English Garden and the bank of the River Thames, there is a statue of a dog. This statue was erected in the park in 1985, commissioned by British anti-vivisection groups, but to meet the dog it depicts, we have to look back over a century. This essay, and the dog it is about, explore Britain as a nation of animal lovers and shows how urban space can become a landscape where we fight for others, including other animals.

Built in 1925, the crematory at Alto de São João Cemetery represented a new, secular way of disposing of the dead.

Established in 1717, the British Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Lisbon, preceding other cemeteries in the city by over 100 years.

One of the oldest (and grandest) cemeteries in Lisbon.

Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. The Victorian designer, writer, and Socialist William Morris didn't love London, but he did love his home here on the Hammersmith Embankment.

Melbourne, Australia. St Patrick's Hall was home to the first Legislative Assembly in Victoria, but it also has an important role in the story of Irish community life in Melbourne.

Margaret Wellington draft document for review revised 17 June