Mile End, 1920

Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Rd, c. 1920

The Blitz

In the Blitz, during the Second World War, thousands of civilians were killed and more than a million homes in London were destroyed. They seem only numbers but... what happens if we represent this situation on a map?

Bombsight.org mapped every single known bomb of the Blitz, dropped between October 1940 and June 1941. The originals maps are available in the reading rooms at The National Archives. On the website you can also see some testimonials from the BBC's WW2 People's War and photographs of war damage, on loan from the Imperial War Museum.

St Mary's Hospital

We can find this relief in the main entrance of St Mary's Hospital. The centre, situated in Paddington, was founded in 1845 but opened its doors to patients in 1851. It's famous because of two important discoveries: 

C. R. Alder Wright, while he was working at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, was the first person to synthesize diacetylmorphine in 1874. Wright's invention became popular only after it was independently re-synthesized by Felix Hoffmann twenty four years later. That year, Bayer marketed this new medicine under the name "heroin", few days after launching the aspirin. The drug was used as a sedative for coughs and as a substitute for morphine.

Seven Dials, 1900

Seven Dials, c. 1900

The Ghosts Stations

What's happening with this Tube's map? Where are all the stations? Do some names look familiar to you? 

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That is because these stops don't exist anymore. They are ghost stations, maybe because they were old installations, moved to another location or because of the number of passengers was very low.

Nowadays, Ajit Chambers wants to re-open some of them and use them as event spaces or museums.

Thanks to Dylan Maryk, who plotted the exact location of these stations in Google map, we can see, easily, where these stations were located and relevant information, like th1e date and the reason for closure.