Lost London 1870-1945

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A list of inmates, victims and those associated with Newgate Prison, from the book The Chronicles of Newgate by Arthur Griffiths, published 1896. The beauty of the book is the well written and considered text that accompanies the excellent collection of photographs from English Heritage's archives.

Lord Campbell, along with the Society for the Suppression of Vice, introduced the world’s first law criminalizing pornography, the Obscene Publications Act 1857, and, for the first time, it gave the courts power to seize and destroy offending materials. Even at the time the law was strongly opposed and its legacy continues to cause controversy about what in Britain could be judged obscene, by whom and on whose behalf. Old St Paul's (St Paul's): Christopher Wren's famous domed cathedral replaced a larger St Paul's built during the medieval period, which burnt down in the Great Fire of 1666. Before it lost its spire, Old St Paul's was much taller than its successor. Chariots wasn’t simply a sex venue, says Sahib. “It was more nuanced than people might expect. Not everyone there was looking for sex. It was also quite intergenerational. I met people there who didn’t identify as gay or exclusively as men. I don’t want to romanticise this too much, because there were problems – certain bodies were excluded, drugs were also an issue. But, in some ways, I met a more diverse range of people than in the gay bars I go to.” The Astoft collection of buildings of England has photographs by Allan Soedring of a number of churches and other buildings County Sources at the Society of Genealogists - The City of London and Middlesex", ed. Neville Taylor, 2002,Q: You mentioned that the danger you felt was more for you. And, understandably, going into a new endeavor can cause some fear. My question is: how do you know when something is frightening because it’s a new, innovative, and interesting idea, and when it’s frightening because it’s a bad idea? And is it difficult to tell the difference sometimes? But then perhaps that is how those whose mistakes the book laments thought about the buildings they replaced too? This place, once Europe's largest telephone exchange, always reminded us of an early games console. It was utterly out of place on the bank of the Thames, and that is why we admired it. The building had a miniscule lifespan. It was completed in 1978 but only became fully operational in the mid-1980s. It then closed in 2004. Mondial House has been replaced be the decent if unremarkable glass building that contains the Oyster Shed pub and restaurant. Swiss Centre (2007) Image by M@.

for exhibiting disembodied shadows on a screen. The Princess's - the theatre of Booth, Charlotte Cushman, Charles List of the Streets and Places within the Administrative County of London 1905 on the Internet Archive. People's Palace (Mile End): Writer Walter Besant was the driving force behind this Mile End entertainment complex, which opened in 1887. It attracted one and a half million people in its first year. Sadly, the venue burnt down in the 1930s. The replacement building is now part of Queen Mary University of London. It was originally just a means of doing something constructive with a box of old tube photos re-discovered during a clean out. Dust Hill (King's Cross): King's Cross is, of course, already named after a lost structure — an unpopular monument to George IV, which stood just 15 years, from 1830 to 1845. The area has many other lost features, however, including a smallpox hospital, a suspended railway and this delightful mound of dust.In the Whitechapel exhibition, archival material sits alongside work from a range of queer artists including Tom Burr, Evan Ifekoya, duo Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings and Prem Sahib. Each is concerned in some way with how LGBT culture plays out in the physical world, and how queer people navigate and leave their mark on the city.

By 1834 there were an estimated 57 porn shops in Holywell Street selling novels, prints, etchings, catalogues on prostitute services, guides for Victorian homosexuals and flagellation connoisseurs. It was hardly a hidden world. The Victorian shops would have retained the raucous nature and prominent display of a medieval market rather than that of an invisible underworld. A letter to The Times in 1846 complains of the windows in the street which “display books and pictures of the most disgusting and obscene character, and which are alike loathsome to the eye and offensive to the morals of any person of well-regulated mind”. Ekwall, E (1951) Two Early London Subsidy Rolls. Lund: CWK Gleerup. Covers the years 1292 and 1319 and is now available at British History Online. This book is largely a collection of quite superb photographs of streets, houses, shops, pubs, churches, etc that no longer exist. It documents some dreadful acts of vandalism, from the casual destruction of early modern timber framed houses to the Adam brothers’ Adelphi Buildings. Old London Bridge (London Bridge): The Thames has been spanned here since Roman times, with numerous bridges. The most distinctive and longest standing, was the medieval structure created in the 13th century and finally demolished in the 1820s. Its replacement, designed by John Rennie, has also gone (mostly... approach sections are still in place) — famously sold to an American tycoon and re-erected in Arizona. Christ Church (Lancaster Gate): This landmark church was largely demolished in 1977, thanks to dry rot. The spire still stands, but is cocooned in something brown, skeletal and unspeakable.

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Great Synagogue (Aldgate): After the return of the Jews to England in the 17th century, a great synagogue was constructed in Duke's Place near Aldgate. It went through a number of rebuilds, but remained in continuous use until it was destroyed by enemy action in 1941. London burials from David Orme attempts to have details, photos, documents about every burial ground in the old Greater London area. Over the next nine decades, TfL's Lost Property Office has become the largest of its kind in Europe, recovering more than 200,000 lost items each year on London's vast transport network, including the Tube and buses and more recently the Elizabeth line. However, as London's transport network grew, so did the number of items lost on the network, and in 2019 the office was temporarily relocated to Pelham Street in South Kensington while a more suitable permanent location was identified. The Lost Property Office has now moved to West Ham on a permanent basis. London Inhabitants without [i.e. outside] the Walls, published as Wallis, P (ed) (2010) London Inhabitants Outside the Walls, 1695 London Record Society, volume 45. Available at British History Online. From its foundation in 1741 the Foundling Hospital rescued abaondoned babies, but from the 1760s it extended its remit to accommodate the children of unmarried mothers who made written petition for the child to be accepted. The surviving applications record details of the lives of the mothers, which can include how they became pregnant and of their employment. About two-thirds of applications in the 19th century were from women in domestic service. The type of information available is detailed in an article by Pamela Horn in Genealogists' Magazine vol. 29, no. 8, pp.293-297 (December 2008).