Tag: buildings
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Where slavery money came home
When Britain ended colonial slavery it paid £20 million to the slave-owners and nothing to the people they had enslaved. I mapped 3,187 British addresses of the owners and claimants: 36% of them in London.
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The Listed Kingdom: every listed building in the UK
I put all 465,740 entries on the UK’s four lists of listed buildings on one map, read their names to see what they are and their descriptions to see when they were built. Mostly Georgian and Victorian houses, with a great many churches at the top.
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The lido boom and bust: how Britain built, closed and saved its open-air pools
In the 1930s Britain built lidos; from the 1970s it closed them; since 2000 some have come back. I built an open register of 73 lidos: 33 of 49 dated openings came in the 1930s, and 14 closed pools have reopened.
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Ring the changes: where England’s bells hang
Dove’s Guide lists 7,262 rings of church bells hung for change ringing, 93% of them in England. I mapped them all, and found Victoria’s jubilees, two world wars and seven centuries of bell founding in the dates on the bells.
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Haunted, or just old? What Britain’s ghost stories say about its buildings
I set 260 reportedly haunted places against Britain’s 40,409 most important listed buildings. Haunted buildings are barely older than their kind, but castles are 9 times and inns 9 times as common among them, and churches almost vanish.
