‘Travel Back In Time With Yahoo! Maps’

Wembley, with twin towers intact

‘In Yahoo! Maps, London is stuck in a new-Millennial timewarp. The vintage satellite photography is now almost a decade out of date’

- Londonist

St Paul's before One New Change shopping centre

St Pancras before international

Spitalfields Market

Shepherd’s Bush before Westfield

Olympic Park - fields, and light industrial units

No Shard. Another tower at top left has also since been demolished.

Home Office-to-be in Pimlico. Note, outline of one of the circula rotundas – old gas infrastructure converted into a bunker during WWII

Highbury before Emirates Stadium

Half-complete 'More London'

Astoria and buildings on Charing Cross Road that were swept away for Crossrail. The brightly coloured St Giles scheme is yet to be seen

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Thank you to Londonist

This capsule was curated by Graham Lehr

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