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While visiting London today, I stopped by the location of the pump from Snow's Cholera map: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5133626,-0.1366315,3a,75y,189.49h
by p1mrx 11y ago
While visiting London today, I stopped by the location of the pump from Snow's Cholera map:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5133626,-0.1366315,3a,75y,189.49h,75.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYuG6zRfL8xHbyVSwH3Q_8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5133626,-0.1366315,3a,75y,...
There's a pub there named after John Snow, but the area seems otherwise unremarkable.
His contributions are discussed in the first episode of How We Got to Now, which is a pretty good documentary available on Netflix:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_We_Got_to_Now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_We_Got_to_Now
- evgen 11y agoSteven Johnson's book The Ghost Map was about Snow's map and the process that went into creating it. A good read if you have the opportunity.
- davnicwil 11y ago> but the area seems otherwise unremarkable You should have continued to look around, you were in soho. There are so many great pubs, restaurants, coffee places within a few streets of the John Snow - it's one of my favourite areas of London to wander around in and try new places. If you're talking unremarkable in terms of history, I'll defer to your judgement on that because I'm no expert! Certainly it's no modern glass-and-concrete jungle in soho though - the architecture's very interesting, Victorian in places, and I know for sure there's at least plenty of post-war historical sites of interest around those streets.