Strandlinks

Find out more about the Strand here:

The Strand on Museum Mile.

The Flickr page for a group of homeless photographers meeting at the Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields, a support centre for homeless people in the area. 

historypin 

Open Plaques

Arthurlloyd.co.uk (for the Strand’s lost theatres)

Theatricalia (for the Strand’s current theatres)

Underground-history.co.uk for information about Aldwych Underground Station

geograph

Workhouses on the Strand

Classics on the Strand (the Roman Bath and Parthenon sculptures)

Lyons Corner House

Podcasts on St Clement Danes Church

Sockmob homeless walking tours

 

Strand Maps:

Richard Horwood’s 1792-1799 map of London

Genmaps (see, for instance, The Parish of St. Martins in the Fields from John Stow’s A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 1755)

Charles Booth On-Line Archive

John Snow’s map of London

Donald Rumsey Historical Map Collection

 

Other Community Engagement Projects:

RunCoCo

talkaboutlocal

Social by Social

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Centre for Digital Storytelling

Our Stories

London based

One History, EC1 in the making

Spitalfields Life

Westminster Memories

Church Street Memories

Soho Memories

FreqOut

East London Lives 2012

 

Historical Life Stories:

London Lives 1690-1800

Association of Personal Historians

 

Walking Tours

Mr Bulldog walking tour at the Photographers' Gallery

Sockmob homeless walking tours