1746 in Colour: Georgian Bloomsbury

Colouring in the John Rocque map one panel at a time.

When it was all fields… Low-res snippet. See below for the full map in high-resolution.

Welcome to Londonist: Time Machine. Today, I’m delighted to share another colourised panel from the John Rocque map of 1746. This time round, I’ve spent hours shading in the streets, squares, ponds, trees, fields, ditches and more fields of Georgian Bloomsbury. Becaus…