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.

This is the story of the murder of Captain Joseph Johns near Devonshire Square in 1747.

Tyburn, that most famous of London execution sites.

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

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.

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

By Rosamund Lily West. The sculpture, 'The Neighbours', by Siegfried Charoux, was installed on the Highbury Quadrant estate in Highbury in 1959 by the London County Council. This viewpoint looks at the choice of neighbours for this sculpture, and how the theme of neighbourliness was used by the LCC to establish the post-war Highbury Quadrant estate and its community.

John Scurr House is a renovated modernist housing block built by Stepney Metropolitan Borough Council in 1937. At the time, it was the first council scheme to be selected for display at the Ryal Academy's Annual Exhibition.

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The former house of comic actor Will Hay, a star of the 1930s and a renowned amateur astronomer.