{"id":1785051,"date":"2018-02-23T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785051"},"modified":"2018-02-23T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:33:45","slug":"the-chiswick-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/02\/the-chiswick-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chiswick Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abundance London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Chiswick Timeline<\/a>, a public mural of historic maps of Chiswick, London, situated along the walls of the underpass next to the Turnham Green tube station, opened earlier this month.\u00a0A project of Abundance London<\/a>, the mural is a series of panels reproducing maps of Chiswick from as early as the late 16th century, and traces its development into the London suburb it is today.\u00a0An accompanying fold-out book<\/a>\u00a0is also available. [Londonist<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chiswick Timeline, a public mural of historic maps of Chiswick, London, situated along the walls of the underpass next to the Turnham Green tube station, opened earlier this month.\u00a0A project of Abundance London, the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49],"tags":[1163,54,166,1164,1165],"class_list":["post-1785051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-art","tag-chiswick","tag-cities","tag-london","tag-murals","tag-public-installations","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789485,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/10\/charles-booths-london-poverty-maps-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785051,"position":0},"title":"Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps Online","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 October 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Last year I told you about Charles Booth\u2019s London Poverty Maps, a book collecting and analyzing the maps produced by Booth\u2019s block-by-block survey of poverty and the social classes of late 19th-century London. 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