50 things to do when travelling in Istanbul, Turkey. So you’re travelling to Istanbul and you have no idea where to begin.
That’s understandable, the city is massive (it spans two continents!) And it has so much to offer in terms of mosques, markets, museums and foreign culinary delights! Here are 50 THINGS TO DO IN ISTANBUL to get your travel planning started: Bomb Sight - Mapping the World War 2 London Blitz Bomb Census. Forgotten Images: Before Aldwych and Kingsway - Discovering London. In October 1905 King Edward VII officially opened Kingsway and Aldwych; “The largest and most important improvement in London since the construction of Regent Street in 1820.”
London County Council produced a special souvenir programme for the event. This map from the programme give some idea of the scale of the works. The buff area of development covers many of the streets that were demolished. Map showing part of the Kingsway & Aldwych development of 1905 The programme was written by Laurence Gomme, Clerk to the Council, who was also a keen historian.
View text, gazetteer and maps of early London from Volume III. Discovering London - DISCOVERING LONDON, your London guide.