Lambeth North

04/02/2021

Blackfriars Road railway station

(Southwark)

04/02/2021

Lowth Road, Camberwell

(Camberwell)

03/02/2021

The Monster Tea Gardens (1820)

Image: Old and New London

(Belgravia)

03/02/2021

Beet Court (1910)

The ’Lamb’ in Lambeth really means just that.

The name is recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha, meaning ’landing place for lambs’, and in 1255 as Lambeth. The name refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the Old English ’lamb’ and ’hythe’.

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Hemans Street circa 1935 showing Portland Cottages on the right.

(Nine Elms)

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Crondall Street

(Hoxton)

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St. Clement Danes, 1900.

Image: Bishopsgate Institute

(Westminster)

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Keeley Street, WC2B

Keeley Street has a dual history

Keeley Street has a dual history

02/02/2021

Victoria Memorial

Image: LordHarris

(St. James’s Park)

02/02/2021

Orange Street, WC2H

Orange Street gets its name from William III, Prince of Orange - the reigning king when the street was built.

Orange Street gets its name from William III, Prince of Orange - the reigning king when the street was built.

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A 1950s (or earlier?) City of London street sign from Change Alley, EC3.

(City of London)

01/02/2021

Whitehall, just before the 1953 Coronation. View northwards from Horse Guards Avenue towards Trafalgar Square, with the equestrian statue of Earl Haig on the left. Decorations are already going up for the Queen’s Coronation six days later.

Image: Ben Brooksbank

01/02/2021

Concorde and Red Arrows

Image: Wiki Commons

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1893 programme cover - Canterbury Theatre

Image: London Borough of Lambeth

The ’Lamb’ in Lambeth really means just that.

The name is recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha, meaning ’landing place for lambs’, and in 1255 as Lambeth. The name refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the Old English ’lamb’ and ’hythe’.

31/01/2021

Farringdon Road, EC1R

Farringdon Road is a road in Clerkenwell and Finsbury.

Farringdon Road is a road in Clerkenwell and Finsbury.

31/01/2021

Samuel Pepys, 17th century London diary writer

31/01/2021

Wake Street

Image: Picture Post

The ’Lamb’ in Lambeth really means just that.

The name is recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha, meaning ’landing place for lambs’, and in 1255 as Lambeth. The name refers to a harbour where lambs were either shipped from or to. It is formed from the Old English ’lamb’ and ’hythe’.

30/01/2021

Risinghill Street, N1

(Islington)

30/01/2021

Westminster Abbey with a procession of Knights of the Bath (1749)

Image: Canaletto

(Westminster)

30/01/2021

Wood engraving showing mothers, with their children, exercising at Tothill Fields Prison, London. Shelfmark: Crime 9 (64)

Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9228986

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Poppins Court EC4

(City of London)

29/01/2021

Sir Christopher Wren had originally wanted to put a stone pineapple at the top of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. There are pineapples on top of the two western towers. He saw them as "a symbol of peace, prosperity and hospitality".

29/01/2021

Zebra taxi

The name Brixton is thought to originate from Brixistane, meaning the stone of Brixi (a Saxon lord).

Brixton was transformed into a middle class suburb of London rather than a country town between the 1860s and 1890s.

In 1888, Electric Avenue was so named after it became the first street in London to be lit by electricity.

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St. Clement Danes, 1900.

Image: Bishopsgate Institute

(Westminster)

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Temple Bar

(City of London)

28/01/2021

101 Strand, WC2R

(Westminster)

27/01/2021

The nursery rhyme Pop Goes the Weasel refers to the act of pawning ones suit after spending all ones cash in the pubs of Clerkenwell.

27/01/2021

Tate Britain

Image: Tony Hisgett

(Pimlico)

27/01/2021

In 1930, Pluto was discovered. Not the dog, the planet. The dog wasn't discovered until 1938.

26/01/2021

Islington Horse and Cattle market at the turn of the twentieth century.

(Angel)

26/01/2021

Mornington Crescent, northwest quadrant (1904).

The view includes no.31 where Spencer Gore rented a room between 1909–12.

Image: Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre

25/01/2021

The Camden Head on Camden High Street, taken in 1903.

The Camden Head is a public house and live venue which first opened towards the end of the 19th century.

Image: Old London postcard

25/01/2021

From the cartoon book "Luminous Animals" by B. Kliban

25/01/2021

Houses of Parliament

25/01/2021

St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel - Wikipedia

St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel

The St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel forms the frontispiece of St Pancras railway station, one of the main termini in London and the final stop for international trains departing to Continental Europe. It opened in 2011, and occupies much of the former Midland Grand Hotel designed by George Gilb...