‘The warehouse-men pause aloft on their landing-stages, book in hand, to contemplate us … The man bending beneath an immense sack turns up his eyes from under his burden, and appears pleased that he has disturbed...
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Trial Trip on the London Underground Railway, 1863. Illustration from Old and New London by Edward Walford (Cassell, c 1880).
London’s water gates date from the time before the building of the embankment and the road on the north side of the river, when the tidal wash reached a lot closer to the buildings (and former palaces) that follow The...
This print conveys a sense of the bustle of commercial and passenger traffic on the Thames in Turner’s time. A noteworthy detail is the presence of two steam packets, identifiable as the Talbot and the Lord Melville, both...
Illustration of a lemonade vendor from ‘London: a pilgrimage’ by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, 1872. Henry Mayhew in ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ (1861) records that lemonade was made...
The Waterloo and City railway company did not participate in the unified map agreement, although on this map the line is nevertheless shown. This was presumably in the hope that it would encourage more passengers to travel...
The principal street in this ward having been originally the corn market for the city, obtained the name of Cornhill, and communicated the same name to the ward. It is bounded on the east by Bishopsgate-ward; on the north by...
Street Life in London, published in 1876-7, consists of a series of articles by the radical journalist Adolphe Smith and the photographer John Thomson. The pieces are short but full of detail, based on interviews with a...
South out of Thames Street to the Thames, leading to Wood Wharf, near Peter’s Hill. In Queenhithe Ward (Leake, 1666-Boyle, 1799). Site now occupied by wharves and warehouses, etc.
‘A Scene in St Giles’ from The Rookeries of London by Thomas Beames, 1850. The report also includes a sympathetic look at the problems of overcrowding and hygiene.
Section of coloured wood engraving of London showing the Thames at Greenwich, 1845, after Frederick James Smyth, Published 11 January 1845.
The Great Fire of London. This painting shows the great fire of London as seen from a boat in vicinity of Tower Wharf. The painting depicts Old London Bridge, various houses, a drawbridge and wooden parapet, the churches of...
Old London Bridge and Vicinity, engraved by E. Goodall published 1827 Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851).
A LONG and uneven war has been waged for many years between the various members of the shoe-blacking fraternity. The factions that divide those who look to our boots for a mode of livelihood are wonderfully numerous. There...
From the Illustrated London News – The demolition of Hungerford Market, looking towards the strand, 27 december 1862.