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No. 779: Stoke Newington Church Street, N16
Stoke Newington Church Street, London, N16. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Curiosities of London Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis with nearly Sixty Years’...
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No. 780: Adam And Eve Court, W1
Adam And Eve Court, London, W1. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Some Habits and Customs of the Working Classes – Thomas Wright, 1867: [...] no one person will ever be able to thoroughly comprehend the...
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No. 781: Cheapside, EC2
Cheapside, London, EC2. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Curiosities of London Life: or, Phases, Physiological and Social, of the Great Metropolis – Charles Manby Smith, 1853: There is an old Billy goat, with...
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No. 782: Blackwater Street, SE22
Blackwater Street, London, SE22. Photo © Roger Dean 2012 London Labour and the London Poor; A Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, and Those That...
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No. 783: St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4
St Paul’s Churchyard, London, EC4. Photo © Roger Dean 2012 Walks in London, Volume I – Augustus J.C. Hare, 1878: [...] no one can see the City properly who does not walk in it, and no one can walk in...
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No. 784: Hatton Garden, EC1
Hatton Garden, London, EC1. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 The Horse-World of London – W. J. Gordon, 1893: Six days a week does the coal horse work, averaging, with due allowance for Saturdays, eighty hours,...
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No. 785: Great Queen Street, WC2
Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen Street, London, WC2. Photo © Roger Dean 2012 The Shops and Companies of London and the Trades and Manufactories of Great Britain - Henry Mayhew, 1865: Mr Harper...
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No. 786: Bourdon Place, W1
Bourdon Place, London, W1. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Mystic London: or, Phases of Occult Life in the Metropolis – Charles Maurice Davies, 1875: Handling me from head to foot, much as a fancier does a...
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No. 787: Brewer Street, W1
Brewer Street, London, W1. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Leisure Hour – 1863: The consumption of poultry in London always reaches its climax at Christmas time; and if one can judge by appearances, there...
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No. 788: Upper Street, N1
Upper Street, London, N1. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Unsentimental Journeys: or, Byways of the Modern Babylon – James Greenwood, 1867: Let us, however, take a walk to the so-called horse-market this...
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No. 789: Old Church Street, SW3
Old Church Street, London, SW3. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 No Thoroughfare – Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, 1867: Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and...
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No. 790: Peter’s Lane, EC1
Peter’s Lane, London, EC1. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Round London: Down East and Up West – Montagu Williams Q.C., 1894: No one who is a stranger to the East End of London can have any idea of the kind...
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No. 791: Barnsbury Street, N1
Barnsbury Street, London, N1. Photo © Roger Dean 2011 Curiosities of London Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of Interest in the Metropolis; with Nearly Sixty Years’ Personal...
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No. 792: Cheyne Walk, SW3
Roper’s Garden, Cheyne Walk, London, SW3. Photo © Roger Dean, 2013 The Wild Tribes of London – Watts Phillips, 1855: To our right lies the Tower, rising black and dismal, scarcely to be distinguished...
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No. 793: Waldegrave Road, N8
Waldegrave Road, London, N8. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 The Little World of London – Charles Manby Smith, 1857: The Signs of the Times In the animal kingdom, there are three Antelopes; fourteen Brown...
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No. 794: Streatham High Road, SW16
St Leonard’s Church, Streatham High Road, London SW16. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 The Pinch of Poverty; Sufferings and Heroism of the London Poor – “The Riverside Visitor” , 1892: A young fellow of about...
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No. 795: Savoy Steps, WC2
Savoy Steps, London, WC2. Photo © Roger Dean, 2013 The bollard in the photograph above can be found in Savoy Steps a narrow cul-de-sac that runs along side the Savoy Chapel, also known as the Queen’s...
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No. 796: Royal Hospital Road, SW3
National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, London SW3. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Walks in London, Volume 1 – Augustus J. C. Hare, 1878: In the sunny Churchyard of St. Giles [Cripplegate] is a...
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No. 797: Market Place, Brentford
Market Place, Brentford. Photo © Roger Dean 2013 Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames, from its Source to the Nore, an Unconventional Handbook – Charles Dickens, 1885: Brentford has been described as a...
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No. 798: Great Portland Street, W1
Great Portland Street, London, W1. Photo © Roger Dean, 2012 The Rookeries of London, Past, Present, and Prospective – Thomas Beames, 1850: [...] The Rookery,- a place or rather district, so named,...
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