{"id":710,"date":"2011-10-27T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=710"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:48:57","slug":"a-new-map-of-london-peculiars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/a-new-map-of-london-peculiars\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Map of London Peculiars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/londonpeculiars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"605\" height=\"431\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-711\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/londonpeculiars.jpg\" alt=\"londonpeculiars\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/londonpeculiars.jpg 605w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/londonpeculiars-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><br>We were delighted to receive a copy of this rather brilliant new map from artist Julia Forte. It highlights the sort of things in the centre of London that you wouldn&#8217;t necessarily find in a standard guide book, but might well hear about in a pub quiz. In fact the descriptions of each item, on the back of the map, are worth memorising for the next time you are in a pub quiz team!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One example &#8211; the reason why a giant gleaming grasshopper is on top of the Royal Exchange at Bank is because this was the family emblem of the exchange&#8217;s founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can buy a copy of the map, along with lots of other interesting things &#8211; ooh, vintage tube maps \ud83d\ude42 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliaforteglobes.com\/product-page\/map-of-london-peculiars\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Thanks very much to Julia Forte for sending in this map. Photo below by Gabrielle Ludlow on Flickr.<\/i> <em>Update 2022: Link to the creator&#8217;s website updated.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4229059639_fdaa203eba_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"164\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/4229059639_fdaa203eba_m.jpg\" alt=\"4229059639_fdaa203eba_m\" class=\"wp-image-715\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were delighted to receive a copy of this rather brilliant new map from artist Julia Forte. It highlights the sort of things in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[269,270,273,271,272,268],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-historic","tag-facts","tag-guide","tag-peculiar","tag-pub","tag-quiz","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7323,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/7323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}