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London's Buried Past
Two workmen examining a structural arch of Blackfriars Monastery exhumed during some building works in #London (1848)
By John Wykeham Archer
Scharf's Street Stroll
1/5 A collection of characters spotted by George Scharf whilst walking near his lodgings at Charing Cross, including this liveried servant guarding the entrance to a building
Great controversy as the Duke of Wellington has a hissy fit and reveals his identity mid-peformance during an episode of the Masked Singer, #London (1840)
#wellingtonwednesday
Lockdown Disco
Sibling rivalry on the dancefloor at a #London home, July 1824 with Madame signalling her intention to jig, but her brother has already committed himself to pirouette
The Thames river at Limehouse, looking towards Limekiln Dock #London by Carington Bowles (1777)
Shore Leave
A group of sailors taking a small boat ashore from their ship docked at Rotherhithe #London by Robert Cleveley (1791)
A splendidly Dickensian view of the Cock and Magpie public house at 88 Drury Lane looking southwards towards the steeple of St Mary-le-Strand, by John Wykeham Archer #London (1840)
A surprising quantity of muff on display in this otherwise modest representation of ladieswear published by the Gallery of Fashion in Wardour Street, #London 1798
For me early Victorian #London is best epitomised by scenes of narrow lanes between unsteady old buildings that seem to lean claustrophobically towards one another such as shown in this glimpse down Cloth Fair towards Smithfield, drawn by J Findlay (1852)
A Bridge to Modern Times
A lovely view of the Thames looking south across new #London Bridge towards the Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie (Southwark Catherdral), at the advent of steamship technology, by Gideon Yates (1837)