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1890 London had 5,728 street accidents, resulting in 144 deaths. [109] London was the site of the world's first traffic lights, installed at the crossroads of Bridge, Great George, and Parliament Streets outside the Houses of Parliament. The 20 ft (6-metre) high column was topped by a large gas lamp, and opened in December 1868. [110]
Edward Stanford first publishes Stanford's Library Map of London and its suburbs. 1863 10 January: The first section of the London Underground, the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon Street, opens to the public, operated by steam locomotives, making it the first in the world. [129] 2 March: Clapham Junction railway station ...
Cannon Street Station, City, Fenchurch Street Station, Liverpool Street Station, Tower Gateway Station, Tower of London, Whitechapel, EC4R 3, EC3M 1, EC3V 9, EC2A 2, EC3N 2, EC3R 6, E1 8 Date between 1869 and 1880
The first map of the London Underground from 1908, showing the 3 new lines opened in 1906-7. ... including the Fenchurch Street/Aldgate area, Royal Albert Dock, ...
Part of Charles Booth's poverty map showing the Old Nichol in the East End of London. Published 1889 in Life and Labour of the People in London. The red areas are "middle class, well-to-do", light blue areas are “poor, 18s to 21s a week for a moderate family”, dark blue areas are “very poor, casual, chronic want”, and black areas are ...
Dorset Street, Spitalfields, photographed in 1902 for Jack London's book The People of the Abyss. The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.
London Street and New London Street – named after local 18th-century property owner John London, and possibly the city itself; the 'New' section was a later extension [329] [345] London Wall – after the city wall which formerly ran along this route (though there are still some ruins visible) [346] [347] [345] Long Lane – a descriptive ...
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