The London Daily Newsletter Friday 20 January

On 20 January 1320, Wladyslaw I was crowned king of Poland and ruled until 1333. He was the unifier of the Polish Nation bringing together a series of Polish principalities into a kingdom and laying the foundations for a strong Polish nation. He also defeated the Knights of the Teutonic Order in his quest for a strong Poland.

Dormers Wells
Dormers Wells or Dormer’s Wells is a neighbourhood consisting of a grid of mostly semi-detached or terraced houses with gardens and small parks.

Until urban/suburban development in the mid 20th century this area formed a small, east part of the Precinct of Norwood a relatively rare half subdivision of the large parish of Hayes. Southall and Norwood manors in much of the medieval period belonged to the Archbishop of Canterbury hence giving the Norwood quasi-chapelry — virtually all a mixed agricultural area which covered today’s Dormer’s Wells, Norwood Green and Southall — the higher, less alienable status of a precinct. The 12th century founded, much-altered chapel is St Mary’s Church, Norwood Green. St John’s Church, Southall was built and endowed in 1838; consecrated in three years and made a parish in 1850. Nine years later Norwood precinct was created a parish separate from that of Hayes. Further Anglican churches followed: Holy Trinity, St George, Christ the Redeemer and Emmanuel none are named after this area. In 1800 the precinct’s overshot flour mill on the edge of the fields associated with “Dorman’s Well Farm” belonged to the Hayes manorial estate, the main manor in the parish. At that date it stood, together with a house and other property, at Dorman’s Well. The overshot mill, comprising a mill, house, millpond, and land, was owned by the Earl of Jersey in 1821 (Villiers family seated at nearby Osterley Park) and in the 1860s stood, as before, on Windmill Lane at Dorman’s Well. In the late 20th century migration into the area included part of London’s Sikh community, who established a large community building and venue for public hire, the Baba Wadbhag Singh Trust building.

TUM Book Club: Tube Mapper Project
Photographer Luke Agbaimoni created the Tube Mapper project allowing him to be creative, fitting photography around his lifestyle and adding stations on his daily commute.

The Underground is the backbone of the city of London, a part of our identity. It’s a network of shared experiences and visual memories, and most Londoners and visitors to the city will at some point have an interaction with the London Underground tube and train network. Photographer Luke Agbaimoni gave up city-scape night photography after the birth of his first child, but creating the Tube Mapper project allowed him to continue being creative, fitting photography around his new lifestyle and adding stations on his daily commute. His memorable photographs consider such themes as symmetry, reflections, tunnels and escalators, as well as simply pointing out and appreciating the way the light falls on a platform in an evening sunset. This book reveals the London every commuter knows in a unique, vibrant and arresting style.

Tube Rain (2015) John Duffin is a print maker and painter well-known for his striking prints focusing on great architecture, depictions of modern life in urban environments and city streets at different times of day.

John Duffin

Video: You Can’t Always Get What You Wanstead
Jago Hazzard went to the far reaches of the Central Line