Now In Colour! Rocque Map Of Georgian Westminster And Lambeth

Part 2 of my John Rocque 1746 map-colouring project.

Welcome to Londonist: Time Machine. I’ve been colouring stuff in again. What we have today is Part 2 of the 1746 John Rocque map, covering Westminster, Covent Garden and (what we now call) the South Bank. I hope you agree that it really brings the Georgian city to life in a way we can’t see from the original black and white.

That’s for the main section. …