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Historian of celebrity during the Regency era, Wanstead House & the scandalous life of William Long-Wellesley. Roofer, Father, Londonist & Eejit #uniwestminster
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The Patron Saint of Carphone Warehouse?
A view of the south east front of St Dunstan's Church, with Temple Bar at mid-distance on the left, 1789
By Thomas Malton

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Down In The Sewer
Workmen installing new drains alongside Fleet Ditch at the back of Saffron Hill, (1855)
Painted by John Wykeham Archer

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A Grave Scene
Yes, here we are in St Botolph's cemetery with a fragment of the old Roman Wall in the background and Nero, cat (aged 4), prowling past some headstones on his rodent-catching patrol
John Wykeham Archer (1841)

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Full of East-End Promise
Thomas Malton's view of the river Thames looking past Somerset House towards the dome of St Paul's Cathedral (1796) awards an almost Byzantine persona

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The Church of St Lawrence Jewry, King Street Cheapside; with the Guildhall visible to the right, by Thomas Malton c.1785

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Fair City
The Provost's House and Trinity College, with its theatre shown (right) on the corner of Grafton Street
By Thomas Malton c.1780

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Perks of The Job
Perhaps the loveliest live-in accommodation in (1847) must be the Warder's Lodgings situated within the confines of the Tower of London.
(John Wykeham Archer)

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Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once.
The Duke of Wellington adopts his John Inman persona whilst auditioning for the Regency-era version of Allo Allo, (July 1830)

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The Old Wych at Aldwych
No, I dont mean this poor woman crossing the street - but the decripit old housing in Wych Street, just off the Strand - as captured by John Wykeham Archer (1844)

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Real Life in Victorian London
The stultifying poverty in which most Londoners wallowed is perfectly encapsulated by John Wykeham Archer's study of Alleyne's Almshouses in Soap Yard, Southwark (1839)

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