No 37 Cheapside on the corner of Friday Street (c1880)

No 37 Cheapside on the corner of Friday Street (c.1880)

The 'Society for Photographing Relics of Old London' was formed when the Oxford Arms - a traditional galleried pub - was about to be pulled down as part of the new Old Bailey development in 1875. The society subsequently campaigned to record disappearing sights, hurriedly commissioning photographs to capture buildings for posterity.

Between 1875 and 1886 they produced photographic records of further buildings under threat, which were issued with descriptive text by the painter (and founder of the Society) Alfred Marks. The focus was architectural, not social; the photographs deliberately exclude signs, notices, people and traffic, to concentrate on the appearance of the bricks and mortar.

Few of the streets in their images remain. This section of Friday Street was demolished after the Second World War.

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