Lost London

[The Champ]

[heywindup]

Thanks Champ!

Do you guys think that the Spitalfields market is better off now after the redevelopment?

[DarJoLe]

It's certainly a more integrated part of the City now.

[The Champ]

Originally Posted by heywindup

Thanks Champ!

Do you guys think that the Spitalfields market is better off now after the redevelopment?

Its definitely a nice place to wander round on your lunch break, closest the city has to a Covent Garden type location

[wjfox]

Fifty-Year-Old Discovery in London Subway

Back in the 1950s, old lifts were removed in the Notting Hill tube station in favor of more modern escalators. Recent work at the station revealed these posters in the old lift passageway.

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22249/...ondon-subway#1

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[jamie1371]

No date for this image, Maybe 1950s? Can't see no 60s development
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Cannon Street station no roof - typewriter to the right
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Limebank House Demolition Date 1998 - address - 168 Fenchurch Street, City of London
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Marsham Towers on Marsham Street and Great Peter Street in Westminster. demolished in 2001.


70s buildings on Paternoster Square.
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Look to the right and you can see battersea power station
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London looking South from The Monument - 1967
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from the Monument 1967
View Southeast from The Monument over the Billingsgate Fish Market, The Thames, Hayes Wharf,
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London 1967 Looking East from The Monument
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From the BT tower - No date
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/...9d6418ef_b.jpg

I like this image. I know it has nothing to do with this thread but its still good.
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[Mr Bricks]

Wow! Those pics are fantastic! South and east London look denser than what they are now.

[reading general]

nice to see paternoster square. spent a lot of time skateboarding there in the 90's. got a feeling there was something to skate under the marsham towers too.

[The Champ]

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I work in the red brick building far left overlooking the church!!

Am loving these more 'recent' lost london shots, so much more interesting to me than those from 100 years ago where a lot of what you see is completely gone, these show what survived up until very recently

[Mr Bricks]

Nice photo montage (found here:http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=61&page=258) showing the old Gardiner´s Corner department store in Aldgate.

[desertpunk]

London 1960

From the Charles W. Cushman Collection http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp












Bomb damage Moorgate









St. Paul's







Broadwick St. Soho





Shepherd Bush Market



Covent Garden

[DarJoLe]

The dirt on some of those buildings is astonishing. No wonder people wanted them demolished for modern cleaner ones.

[Mr Bricks]

That is always what I do at home too. When things get dusty and dirty I just smash them to pieces.

I´m astonished by how clean and clutter free the streets are.

[DarJoLe]

Clean?

[Octoman]

If the old Paternoster Square had table cafes and bars like the new one, it wouldnt look much different. They are both pretty bland and uncomplementary to St Pauls.

Those 60's pictures are amazing. London looked really really lovely back then.

[Mr Bricks]

Originally Posted by DarJoLe

Clean?

They look very neat and tidy.

[Octoman]

Originally Posted by Mr Bricks

They look very neat and tidy.

The streets look incredibly clean. It was before the days of the scurge of chewing gum, junk food wrappers, carrier bags and various other items of detrius that we find blowing around our gutters today. Picadilly Cirus looks spotless. Much nicer than today.

[Mr Bricks]

Indeed, but I don´t understand your criticism of Paternoster Square. The current one is architecturally far superior and a fine public place if you ask me, and the restored Temple Bar is marvelous.

[El_Greco]

Moorgate had quite a Pompeii(ish) look back then!

[Justme]

Originally Posted by Octoman

The streets look incredibly clean. It was before the days of the scurge of chewing gum, junk food wrappers, carrier bags and various other items of detrius that we find blowing around our gutters today. Picadilly Cirus looks spotless. Much nicer than today.

Maybe, but it also just after the days when horse shit and dirt roads still filled the streets, when people flung their urine out the windows and everyone constantly spat on the streets.

It may look clean on these photos, but that is due mainly to the small size, and low resolution of the film in those days. It's all in the details. Remember, things were so dirty around those days that even the fog was so thick it killed. One particular incident in 1952 killed 12,000 people.

I remember London from the 1980's and 1990's and it looks a darn sight cleaner now than it did back then.