WHEN the sun shows its face, there is no better place to chill than beside an outdoor pool – and thankfully the UK has stacks ...

1. St Pancras Station. Inaugurated in 1868, the station in the heart of London is considered a perfect example of Victorian ...

19th century streets also stand out on a map because they tend to barrel straight through neighbourhoods, with little regard for the historic street plan. Actually, that’s not quite right.

West of London, for example, we can compare two versions of the same map. To keep up with the railways, mapmakers sometimes engraved new railway lines straight over the top of existing designs.