Places Edited by jooniur

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

A five-story homage to tea times past.

London's most popular recording studio, located in the capital's East End, runs partly on solar power and has played host to some of the world's biggest acts.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

A museum and gardens with unusual plants and a history of progressive programming for the blind.

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, one of the great Victorian engineers, was the driving force behind the short-lived atmospheric railway.

The ghosts of Britain's telecommunication past sit rusting away in a small village in England.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A well-preserved 2nd century fort where moles are the archaeologists.

A recently restored Shoreditch landmark with ties to Jack the Ripper.

A building that survived WWII, possibly on the virtue of its name alone.

High-end antique collection housed in a centuries-old church.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This legendary stone is of unknown origin, and throughout history has been a literal touchstone for British leaders.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.