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St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London
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St Lukes Hospital for Lunatics, London
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The gravestone of English poet William Blake in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
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Great Arthur House, at the centre of the Golden Lane Estate, was the tallest residential building in Britain at the time of its construction.
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Jewin Street looking east toward Red Cross Street (1920) Tubbs & Son sign outside premises and their posters in the window. It is probably Number 38, sometime home of the City of London Photographic Stores (1901) and Belprex Ltd (1927) The Fire Station at the end was built after the 1897 fire. Unsurprisingly the street name derives from an ancient Jewish burial ground. Jewin Street was widened after the 1897 fire.
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Jewin Crescent, London EC1 This 1940 drawing is by Roland Vivian Pitchforth - one of his works for the War Artists Advisory Committee and looks west along Jewin Crescent.
Credit: Roland Vivian Pitchforth/Imperial War Museum
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Widely known as the ’Agas map’, Civitas Londinum is a bird’s-eye view of London first printed from woodblocks in about 1561. The map offers a richly detailed view both of the buildings and streets of the city and of its environment. No copies survive from 1561, but a modified version was printed in 1633.
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The Old Bull & Mouth Inn, St. Martin’s-Le-Grand, engraved by W. Watkins, after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd.
Credit: W. Watkins
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Royal Oak, Waterloo Street in the early 1960s. Waterloo Street once ran from Lever Street to Radnor Street. The original street dates from around 1829 and like other streets of similar name, commemorates Wellington’s 1815 victory. The whole area was redeveloped for the Pleydell Estate in 1965.
Credit: James Wyatt
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While Barbican is a London Underground station situated near the Barbican Estate, it has been known by various names since its opening in 1865, mostly in reference to the neighbouring ward of Aldersgate. The station was opened with the name Aldersgate Street on the Moorgate extension from Farringdon. It was built on the site of an earlier building at 134 Aldersgate Street, which for many years had a sign claiming "This was Shakespeare’s House". The station, which has no surface building, had its name shortened to Aldersgate on 1 November 1910 and was renamed again on 24 October 1924 as Aldersgate & Barbican. On 1 December 1968 the station’s name was simplified to Barbican. Train services were disrupted during the Second World War when the station suffered severe bomb damage in the Blitz. This led to the removal of the upper floors, and in 1955 the remainder of the street-level building was also demolished. The glass roof was replaced with awnings. This urged John Betjeman to write his poem ’Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Station’. Passenger trains from the Great Northern line, via the York Road and Hotel curves at King’s Cross to the Widened Lines, ran until the Great Northern’s electrification on 1976. The City Widened Lines were renamed the Moorgate line when overhead electrification was installed in 1982, allowing the Midland City Line service to run from Bedford via the Midland Main Line to Moorgate on the Thameslink service. The Thameslink platforms at Barbican were closed again in March 2009 as part of the Thameslink Programme to allow Farringdon to have its main line platforms extended across Thameslink’s Moorgate branch. Barbican now serves Underground lines only.
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