Lost London, 1870-1945

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A scanned copy of a Catalogue of of the tombs in the churches of the City of London AD 1666 is in the Internet Archive. Built in 1605, Holland House (not to be confused with House of Holland, the fashion empire) even featured 500 acres of ground – Kensington was a bit more rural back then. The Baedeker's Old Guide Books site has maps from Baedeker's London and its Environs 1905 (archived at Internet Archive). The film strikes a comedic tone despite the dramatic subject matter, and that lies partly in the truth of the story.

Gothic library of 1827–1828 by Sir Robert Smirke and adjoining hall of 1868 by Sidney Smirke; destroyed by bombs. Oldfield was at university with Mahatma Gandhi, where they jointly founded the Fruitarian Society, and the two shared a flat in Bayswater.It shouldn’t just be the fact that it’s live… shouldn’t be the reason people are compelled by what’s going on. There were Compters to hold debtors both within the City and outside it, in Southwark and Middlesex. Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. British History Online catalogue for Greater London sources: Text of many documents including directories, Victoria County History volumes and drafts, maps, a tax list, gazetteers,list of City of London inhabitants 1695, others.

Over the course of the evening his marriage to his wife (Eleanor Satsuura) breaks down due to an indisctrion which makes its way to the front page of a tabloid, but after an apparent fight with friend Owen Wilson he leaves a nightclub and gets into an altercation with a taxi driver that lands him in jail. But the parts of the metropolis inhabited by the poorer classes, are yet the prolific sources of disease; and the retention of Smithfield market and the slaughter-houses in the very heart of London must also be noticed as a heavy drawback on the health, safety, and even morality of the city.Palatial house built by Lewis Vulliamy for Robert Stayner Holford; replaced by the Dorchester Hotel.

It was also feared that this poison would excite the modern woman, already an emerging threat to the stability of the realm, to dangerous levels of lust and promiscuity. These photographs are quite unique and [give] a rare view of how these things were built – you can see photographs of people with big sledge hammers and it’s quite a surprising view of the London we know very well coming into being. He broke an ashtray in a London taxi, which led to his being chased by police in a different taxi, and spending a night in jail. Palatial house in French Renaissance style, designed by William Burn for the 5th Duke of Buccleuch; used as government offices from 1917. Brompton (1840) Friends of Brompton Cemetery (details in list of organisations from Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea).The slightest split or bend can affect the aerial and chip that runs through the card, stopping the pass from registering on card readers on public transport. This minor revolution in an unremarkable location was typical of the gloriously varied world of hospitals operating in London right up until the foundation of the National Heath Service in 1948. I don’t want to romanticise this too much, because there were problems – certain bodies were excluded, drugs were also an issue. The book starts itself on the cities fringes, in working neighbourhoods, with narrow lanes, crooked, time-worn, overhanging houses.

If your child does not have a valid machine-readable passport, you can collect your photocard from a TfL Visitor Centre. It eventually became a hang-out of the progressive Whig party, plus other thinkers, drinkers, artists, authors and socialites.Political movements such as Chartism, a working class movement most active between 1838 and 1848, funded their more worthy output with profits from erotic publications. A remarkably radical institution for its time, the hospital had been founded in 1898 by a Dr Josiah Oldfield, on vegetarian principles. The Rayment Society have lists of London streets with changed names, arranged by both old and new names. Some of the media narratives were around technology and Gaydar, Grindr, how that’s changed everything,” says Campkin.