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A Remarkable New Photo Map of Old London

Two years in the making, the London Picture Map includes more than 150,000 historical images.
London's Tower Bridge under construction in 1892.Collage, The London Picture Archive

With over 150,000 pictures now mapped across the city, a new digital photo archive of the city of London is so rich in content it’s almost too much to cope with.

Launched last week, Collage, The London Picture Map allows you to trace London’s visual history street by street. Supported by the City of London Corporation, it’s the result of two full years of digitizing and mapping images from the London Metropolitan Archive and the Guildhall Art Gallery, which together possess the largest collection of London images in the world.