The London Daily Newsletter Tuesday 24 January

On 24 January 41AD, Gaius Caesar (Caligula) who had been Roman Emperor from 37AD, was murdered. Caligula, whose name means “Little Boots”, succeeded Tiberius and became so unpopular he was assassinated by Cassius Chaerea at the Palatine Games.

St George’s Hill
St George’s Hill is an upmarket area of Weybridge.

St George’s Hill is a private gated community having golf and tennis clubs, as well as approximately 420 houses. The summit is 78 metres above mean sea level. In April 1649, common land on the hill had been occupied by a movement known as The Diggers, who began to farm there. They are often regarded as one of the world’s first small-scale experiments in socialism. The Diggers left the hill following a court case five months later. With its broad summit, the hill results in views of Surrey varying from one observation point to another. This spurred on the idea for the development with views along the estate roads. St George’s Hill first served as a home and leisure location to celebrities and successful entrepreneurs after its division into lots in the 1910s and 1920s when Walter George Tarrant built its first homes. Land ownership is divided between homes with gardens, belonging to house owners and the estate roads and verges belonging to its residents’ association.

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.

“The Thames from Millbank”, oil on canvas, Richard Redgrave (1804-1888), created around 1836. The scene depicted is around the year 1815.

Richard Redgrave/Victoria and Albert Museum

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