{"id":2619,"date":"2013-11-01T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2013-11-01T16:29:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:29:34","slug":"wonderground-map-of-london-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2013\/wonderground-map-of-london-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderground Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Above is a small part of the “Wonderground Map of London Town” – MacDonald Gill created this fantastic decorative map, which was commissioned to provide a distraction for London Underground passengers as they waited for their next train. The map was drawn in 1914, it became such a hit that the aformentioned passengers would sometimes miss their train as they were too busy looking at the map.<\/p>\n

I love how the map is the very opposite of a network map – how it crams in so much detail in a time that maps were starting to simplify and become more practical and “cleaner”. It’s a map designed to be looked at, not glanced at.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, where this map is currently being displayed, is “Out of the Shadows: MacDonald Gill” which is at the PM Gallery and House in Ealing Broadway. It is showing this map and others of London, including the bus map we featured<\/a> when it was at the Transport Museum last year. The exhibition also is showing many of the other maps created by MacDonald Gill, and includes some interesting facts. For example: MacDonald Gill’s brother Eric who created Gill Sans, the clean font which was based on Johnston, the principal font still used by Transport for London.<\/p>\n

You have one more day to see the exhibition! It’s free, and closes tomorrow (Saturday) at 5pm. More details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Your author visited the exhibition yesterday (Thursday) and took these photos of the map. It is well worth the trip out.<\/i><\/p>\n

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