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The last glass-eye maker in Britain

Meet Jost Haas – the UK’s last artificial-eye maker working exclusively with glass.

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Milk trails round Euston

Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.

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How to rehabilitate the concrete jungle

A huge concrete housing estate from the 1960s, now seen as an ecological mistake, is being drastically redeveloped, compounding the environmental errors. Owen Hatherley posits a more creative solution.

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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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  • Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith, London, England: under construction. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • King's Cross disease centre 'terror target' : follow the story every day : Evening Standard : know what London's thinking.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • King's Cross, London: the Great Dust-Heap, next to Battle Bridge and the Smallpox Hospital. Watercolour painting by E. H. Dixon, 1837.
  • St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "trap ball" ground, with men playing, St Pancras Church in the background. Etching.
  • School at Thanet Street, King's Cross, London: above, an elevation, below, the plan. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin, 1872, after B. Sly.
  • St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.
  • [Newspaper clipping (1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant and Professor Cross, phrenologist at the Royal Aquarium, London and King Theebaw's sacred Burmese hairy family at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
  • [Newspaper clipping (1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant and Professor Cross, phrenologist at the Royal Aquarium, London and King Theebaw's sacred Burmese hairy family at the Piccadilly Hall, London].
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