A 'Balloon View' of Victorian London
19th century London from above.
Welcome to Londonist: Time Machine, the newsletter of London history.
Today, I’ve hover-parked the Time Machine in a familiar year, but an unfamiliar location. We’re back once again in 1851, the year of the Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition. This time, though, we’re poised hundreds of metres above the ground, looking south over the sprawl of London.