Lost London

[El_Greco]

^ Museum Of London is being redeveloped - lower galleries are closed.

http://www.molg.org.uk/English/Suppo...alCityProject/

I visited the museum last sunday and asked guy who works there when they gonna reopen lower galleries and he said 2009.That cant be true...

[fitz44]

I guess that's in order to keep the Museum partially open during the build?

[El_Greco]

Yeah upper galleries (London Before London - Stuart London) are open but these are boring...

[El_Greco]

London Bridge 1942



The death of The North Bank :



Columbia Flower Market 1914



Commercial Road 1909



Commercial Road 1900



The Opening of the Blackwall Tunnel 1897



Poplar Hospital 1919

[eyrie]

This thread has taught me more about old London than any historical book I have ever read.It puts many things into perspective for me now.Btw the pic of Piccadilly Circus makes a nice desktop background.

[El_Greco]

[fitz44]

Really beautiful El Greco, thanks. That one of Tower Bridge under construction almost as surreal as the Leadenhall demolition.

[El_Greco]

Bow Lane 1920



Cheapside 1910



Ludgate Circus 1910



Old Change 1930



Bengal Court 1957



Monument Street 1930



Blackfriars Station 1930



Piccadilly Circus 1927



Covent Garden 1930



Covent Garden Underground Station 1930

[Black Cat]

@El Greco: Many thanks for so many wonderful shots of London. Cheapside looked so much better in the past than today! Even the north bank of the Thames had finer buildings when it was dockside warehouses than the disappointing post war offices of the 60s onward.

[El_Greco]

Lincolns Inn.Old Square.Holborn.



Lincolns Inn Gate House.Holborn.



Staple Inn.Holborn.



Great Queen Street.Holborn.



Barnards Inn.Holborn.



Lincolns Inn Fields.Holborn.



Lincolns Inn Fields.Holborn.



Field Court.Grays Inn.Holborn.



Cliffords Inn.Holborn.



Clements Inn.Garden House.Holborn.



Aldersgate Street.The City.



Aldersgate Street.The City.



Aldersgate Street.The City.



Fleet Street.The City.



St.Giles Cripplegate.The City.



College Street.The City.



Corner Of St Mary Axe & Bevis Marks.The City.



37 Cheapside.The City.



Great Winchester Street.The City.



Austin Friars.The City.

[El_Greco]

Fore Street.The City.



Great St.Helens.The City.



Great St.Helens.The City.



Kings Head Inn Yard.Southwark.



Kings Head Inn Yard.Southwark.



Borough High Street.Southwark.



Great Ormond Street.Bloomsbury.



Queen Square.Bloomsbury.



Queen Annes Gate.Bloomsbury.



Aldgate.



Macclesfield Street.Soho.



Brewer Street.Soho.



St.Johns Gate.Clerkenwell.



Tennis Court.Piccadilly.



Churchyard Court.Inner Temple.Temple.



Fountain Court.Middle Temple.Temple.



The Gatehouse.Inner Temple.Temple.



Lambeth Palace.Lambeth.



Palace Yard.Lambeth.



Emanuel Hospital.Westminster.



Ashburnham House.The Garden.Westminster.



Ashburnham House.Westminster.



Little Deans Yard.Westminster.



The Strand.



Oxford Market.

[shoreditchpete]

Not sure whether this was the right place to post this find

[Dr Pepper]

Great photo of the Nat West Tower under construction. I rather like the more modern development photos, especially of somewhere like the City which can look so different every 50 years.

[Mr Bricks]

Taken in Fleet Street during WW2. The pillar of smoke in the background is rising from a V1 which crashed in Aldwych.

[fitz44]

Wow, I haven't seen that shot before SuomiPoika. It really captures the sense of people trying to live ordinary lives as destruction rains down on them. Brings home the fear people must have had to live with from day to day.

[New_To _This_City]

These images are really great!!! They show such an amazing view of London, its almost like Charles Dickens' London!!! Its a shame that not many of these Lanes have been preserved, alas we cant stand in the way of developement!!

[fitz44]

Very early shot mid 1860's of Victoria Embankment u/c. That's Charing Cross Station in the background.

[Bones]

Great pictures guys. Keep digging em up El Greco. That one of the Nat West tower (tower 42) going up reminds me of my first days working in the city in 1978. That makes me feel old!

[TheOingoBoingoBandit]

Originally Posted by Bones

Great pictures guys. Keep digging em up El Greco. That one of the Nat West tower (tower 42) going up reminds me of my first days working in the city in 1978. That makes me feel old!

1978 reminds me of my first days walking as I was born in November '77.


That makes me feel young!

[Bones]

The Nat West tower was built by John Mowlem and company and for some reason took from 1971 to 1979 to build. It opened in 1980 at a cost of 72 million. Any one know why the hell it took so long?

Seems that an undeground river was actully found beneath the site. The piling goes down 30 metres. The concrete underground foundations actually weigh more than the weight of the buliding above ground. This is still the tallest cantilevered concrete building in the world. The jobsite was tiny-the existing victorian banking hall was left intact. The offices within are quite small-not the most practical layout. Still other classics like Gherkin and the Chrysler buiding faced the same criticism.