A vanished district that lives on in legend.

A buried river and a lost neighbourhood.

Former home of notorious black magician, Aleister Crowley, the “wickedest man in the world”.

Two blue plaques, almost side-by-side in Tavistock Place, commemorate very different people. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the USSR with no sense of humour, and Jerome K Jerome, a British humourist with a sceptical take on Socialism.