City map image made from the Copperplate Map 1559

City map image made from the Copperplate Map 1559An image of how a print would look if printed from the City section of The Copperplate Map which dates from the 1550s and is the first known map of London. Made in fifteen copper sections, or plates, only three are still in existence. Two plates which depict the areas around Moorfields and the City are in the Museum of London and a third plate, held by the Dessau Art Gallery, shows the area around St Paul's Cathedral.

St Dunstan-in-the East and Tower of London

which has helped her in unravelling the city's rich immigrant history and its constant ongoing evolution

On the extreme right is Great Brewhouse

Adolphe Smith

Thousands of pounds worth of goods were also left exposed to the elements

the London Museum pigeon

This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences

and using years of experience and contributions from readers

Security warden outside the National Gallery

my waist turn'd down

by Moonlight

The working wooden crane is the focal point of this busy yard where a magnetic pulley can lift the shipping containers from ship to dock to lorry and back again