Londonist: Time Machine

Londonist: Time Machine

Historical Maps

1746: Chelsea and the King's Road, Mapped in Colour
The John Rocque map heads west.
 • Matt Brown
Pimlico, and All That Water
Getting our feet wet in John Rocque's map.
 • Matt Brown
Mapped in Colour: Pimlico and Victoria in 1746
Colouring in Georgian London, one panel at a time.
 • Matt Brown
When Marylebone was All Fields: 1746 in Colour
The latest instalment of the coloured-in John Rocque map.
 • Matt Brown
How Good is AI at Making London Maps?
Answer: poor.
 • Matt Brown
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
 • Matt Brown
The Boroughs of London at 60
I put some words into a book.
 • Matt Brown
Georgian Fitzrovia... Now in Colour
Of course, it wasn't called that back then.
 • Matt Brown
Who Was This John Rocque Fellow Anyway?
The man behind the maps.
 • Matt Brown
1746 In Colour: The Barbican to Bishopsgate Map
Continuing my mission to colour in London's greatest historical map, one panel at a time.
 • Matt Brown
Virginia Woolf's London: The Complete Map
Every location from her ten novels.
 • Matt Brown
In Colour: A Map of Clerkenwell in 1746
My ongoing mission: to colour in one of the great maps of London.
 • Matt Brown
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