The London Daily Newsletter Wednesday 18 January

On 18 January 1701, Frederick III of Brandenburg was crowned Frederick I, king of Prussia beginning the rise of the Prussian state. On 18 January 1871, on the 170th birthday of Prussia, it ceased to exist. Kaiser Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed the first emperor of Germany in the hall of mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. The First Reich began after the Prussians had defeated France swiftly in a brief war.

Crayford Ness
Crayford Ness is largely a tidal wetland – the easternmost area in the part of Greater London south of the Thames.

Situated at the mouth of the River Darent, it has a small industrial estate – the Darent Industrial Estate – built on the site of the former Thames Ammunition Works. This 40 acre site operated between 1879 and 1962.

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.

Reflections on the Thames, Westminster, London (1880) John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes. Today, he is considered one of the great painters of the Victorian era.

John Atkinson Grimshaw

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