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Transport
Transport

King’s Cross Station: To Hogwarts & Edinburgh

It’s the terminus with links to “The North” and an orphaned boy wizard

London Places
London Places

London’s famous bridges

Bridges have helped Londoners cross the Thames for 2,000 years – here's the best of them

Architecture & Home
Architecture & Home

Tower Bridge

A Gothic-style icon – built by the Victorians

Architecture & Home
Architecture & Home

Lambeth Bridge

The bridge that put a horse ferry out of business

Transport
Transport

Building a Victorian underground railway

Henry Flather’s photos of the Metropolitan District Railway show a transport revolution in action

Transport
Transport

London buses: Red, iconic, double-decked

You wait for ages, then all you need to know about London buses comes along at once

London Places
London Places

What is the Cutty Sark?

How the speediest ship on the late 19th-century seas came to a standstill in Greenwich

Transport
Transport

What were London’s turnpikes?

In the 1700s and 1800s, travelling on London’s main roads came with a cost

Trades & Workers
Trades & Workers

Post-war photographs of the working River Thames

Sandra Flett’s snapshot of trade and industry on London’s liquid highway

Transport
Transport

When London moved by tram

Powered by horses, then electricity, London’s tram network was once the largest in the world

London Places
London Places

Woolwich Ferry

Getting Londoners across the Thames since the 1300s

Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters

The sinking of the Princess Alice

Catastrophe struck on the River Thames in 1878 when a cargo ship collided with a tourist boat