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George Francis Train, the aptly named American behind London’s first trams
Then and now: John Thomas Smith's London
Islington Cattle Market: lost secret of Essex Road
Ancient buildings of John Thomas Smith's London
'Work' by Ford Madox Brown, a painting to rival a Dickens novel
Old houses of John Thomas Smith's London
Islington's New River mosaic: little known, but of high artistic quality
Islington's transformed transformer, based on Newgate Prison
Old Tom, the Christmas goose that wasn't cooked
Downing Street: "shaky" like its "rogue" developer
Down Pentonville Road towards St Pancras: 1884 and today
City of London proclaims the new King
Wood, not gold, paved the streets of London