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RMEHG630–An engraving of a North-east View of Cornhill, London scanned at high resolution from a book printed in 1867.
RMM988AD–The castellated entrance to the 'Old' London Bridge (1209–1831) over the River Thames on the Southwark side. King Henry II commissioned a new stone bridge in place of the old, with a chapel at its centre dedicated to Becket as martyr. Building work began in 1176 and was finished by 1209 during the reign of King John; it took 33 years to complete. City of London, England
RMF83K8P–An engraving of The Mansion House, London UK scanned at high resolution from a book printed around 1850. Believed copyright free.
RM2PJWT4N–Falling people and an incapacitated horse resulting from a severe frost in Victorian London circa 1865.
RMEHG60T–Engraving of The Old College of Physicians, Warwick Lane, London in 1841 scanned at high resolution from a book printed in 1867.
RMRHAF4X–A riotous scene in the street beside Temple Bar, the western boundary of the City of London, with the mob hanging and burning representations of members of the Rump Parliament from a 1726 etching and engraving by William Hogarth
RMEH8G69–An engraving of Cromwell's House, Clerkenwell scanned at high resolution from a book printed in 1867.
RMRFT6WA–An 1841 view of the old College of Physicians in Warwick Lane, in London, England. In September 1666, the College of Physicians’ home in the City of London, was completely destroyed by the Great Fire. The physicians then moved into a spectacularly grand and opulently redesigned home in 1678 in Warwick Lane – close to their destroyed home in Amen Corner.
RMEHG6GA–An engraving of a Watering House (The White Hart), Knightsbridge in 1841 scanned at high resolution from a book printed in 1867.
RMPX7783–The Fortune Playhouse, founded about 1600, was a historic theatre in London. It was located between Whitecross Street and the modern Golden Lane, just outside the City of London and was contemporary with Shakespeare's Globe, The Swan and others. Parliament ordered all theatres closed in 1642, and the Fortune entered a slow but irreversible decline. In 1649, soldiers pulled down the stage and the gallery seats. By the Restoration, it had partially collapsed, and was sold as scrap.
RMEHG6E5–Engraving of The Tabard, Southwark, from Urry's Edition of Chaucer, 1720 scanned at high resolution from a book printed in 1867.
RMRJR563–Flanked by Cornhill and Threadneedle Street, the Royal Exchange was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Thomas Gresham to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London. It was designed by William Tite and adheres to the original layout–consisting of a four-sided structure surrounding a central courtyard where merchants and tradesmen could do business. Traditionally, the steps of the Royal Exchange is the place where proclamations, like the dissolution of parliament, death or abdication of a monarch and confirmation of the next monarch's accession to the throne are read out.
RM2JFF34W–Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan, Illustration from the Book, 'From Pharaoh to Fellah' by C.F. Moberly Bell with Illustrations by Georges Montbard, engraved by Charles Barbant, Wells Gardner, Darton, & Co., London, 1888
RMR6RM9A–The Royal Exchange in London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Thomas Gresham to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London. It is the place where certain royal proclamations (such as the dissolution of parliament) are read out by either a herald or a crier. Following the death or abdication of a monarch and the confirmation of the next monarch's accession to the throne by the Accession Council, the Royal Exchange Building is one of the locations where a herald proclaims the new monarch's reign to the public. This building destroyed by fire in the 1840s.
RMPKG3ED–Crowded Bucklersbury, a small road between Victoria Street and Walbrook in the heart of the City of London. It has yielded two major Roman London finds: the Temple of Mithras and Bucklersbury Pavement mosaic. In the fourteenth century, it was ordained that exchanges of gold and silver should take place there; pepperers and grocers later took over, before they in turn were replaced by druggists and herbalists - Shakespeare's Falstaff described 'these lisping hawthorn buds, that come like women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simple time'.
RMPKG3NF–Watchmen were organized groups of men, usually authorized by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection, recovery of stolen goods. The streets in London were dark and had a shortage of artificial light that brought a heightened threat of danger. So from 1485 to the 1820s, in the absence of a police force, it was the parish-based watchmen who were responsible for keeping order in London's streets.
RMPKG3PA–Watchmen were organized groups of men, usually authorized by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection, recovery of stolen goods. The streets in London were dark and had a shortage of artificial light that brought a heightened threat of danger. So from 1485 to the 1820s, in the absence of a police force, it was the parish-based watchmen who were responsible for keeping order in London's streets.
RMPKHY0E–A watchman, one of an organized groups of men, usually authorized by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection, recovery of stolen goods. The streets in London were dark and had a shortage of artificial light that brought a heightened threat of danger. So from 1485 to the 1820s, in the absence of a police force, it was the parish-based watchmen who were responsible for keeping order in London's streets.
RM2A6MP3K–The Royal Exchange in London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Sir Thomas Gresham on the suggestion of his factor Richard Clough to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London. Gresham's original building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The second building built on the site flanked by Cornhill and Threadneedle Street was designed by Edward Jarman and opened in 1669, but that also burned down, on 10 January 1838. It had been used by the Lloyd's insurance market, which was forced to move temporarily to South Sea House following the 1838 fire.
RMRJR37E–Headquarters of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, one of the livery companies of the City of London, known as Fishmongers' Hall aka Fish Hall. The earliest recorded hall was built in 1310; a new hall was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. A replacement hall designed by the architect Edward Jerman opened in 1671, but was demolished to facilitate the construction of the new London Bridge in 1827. The new Fishmongers' was designed by Henry Roberts and opened in 1834.
RMR943YJ–Costume worn by the nobility and gentry,during the brief reign of King James II1685-1688 following the death of his father King Charles II.
RMR943XX–Costume worn by the nobility and gentry, ie courtiers for the coronation of King Charles II in 1649 following the restoration of the monarchy.
RMRAPC8K–17th Century London and a 'plug in a frost', used when pipes and cisterns in homes were frozen, around which women gathered to replenish water supplies and a chat.
RMRDM5CD–The cobbler's wife offering the cobbler some ale at his stall in in 18th Century London. Cobblers were distinct from Cordwainers (shoe makers), for they only repaired shoes, but over the years, this distinction began to weaken
RMRFT67D–An 18th Century street scene in Islington in Greater London, England, showing Old St Mary's Parish Church in Upper Street. Now part of the London Borough of Islington, it grew as a sprawling Middlesex village along the line of the Great North Road, and has provided the name of the modern borough.
RMRDP1WH–18th Century travel was difficult and impractical hence the introduction of the sedan chair. It consisted of a chair or windowed cabin suitable for a single occupant, also carried by at least two porters in front and behind, using wooden rails that pass through brackets on the sides of the chair. These porters were known in London as 'chairmen'.
RMRDM6AX–The Gold Coach is an enclosed, horse-drawn carriage used by the British Royal Family. Commissioned in 1760, it was built in the London workshops of Samuel Butler. It has been used at the coronation of every British monarch since George IV. The coach's great age, weight, and lack of manoeuvrability have limited its use to grand state occasions such as coronations, royal weddings, and the jubilees of a monarch. The coach is housed at the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace.
RMRDM68D–The Pall Mall gate of St James's Palace, in the City of Westminster. Built by King Henry VIII on the site of a leper hospital dedicated to Saint James the Less, the palace was secondary in importance to the Palace of Whitehall for most Tudor and Stuart monarchs. The palace increased in importance during the reigns of the early Georgian monarchy, but was displaced by Buckingham Palace in the late-18th and early-19th centuries.
RMRDM5BM–The 18th Century Watchmen were organized groups of men, usually authorized by a state, government, city, or society, to deter criminal activity and provide law enforcement as well as traditionally perform the services of public safety, fire watch, crime prevention, crime detection, recovery of stolen goods. Watchmen have existed since earliest recorded times in various guises throughout the world and were generally succeeded by the emergence of formally organized professional policing.
RMRDM5B4–The 18th Century link-boy (or link boy or linkboy) was a boy who carried a flaming torch to light the way for pedestrians at night. Linkboys were common in London in the days before street lighting. The linkboy's fee was commonly one farthing, and the torch was often made from burning pitch and tow. The term derives from 'link', a term for the cotton tow that formed the wick of the torch.
RMRKM2GY–Seven Dials is a road junction in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden in West End of London where seven streets converge. At the centre was a column bearing sundials removed in 1773. After the successful development of the Covent Garden Piazza it was thought that Seven Dials would be popular with wealthy residents, but by the 19th century, Seven Dials was a byword for urban poverty. By 1851 as the population decreased, workshops and breweries began occupying some of the houses.
RMRFT6EM–The central Law Courts were housed in Westminster Hall, London from Medieval times until the nineteenth century. The courts evolved from the royal household, where originally the King in person had arbitrated between his subjects. Westminster Hall contained the King's Bench, the Court of Chancery, and the Court of Common Pleas. Many famous trials were held in the hall including Charles I sentenced to death for treason, and Warren Hastings (1732–1818) was impeached for his handling of the East India Company.
RMPH6TGD–Decorative half timbered houses in a 16th Century Southwark street scene, a district of Central London and part of the London Borough of Southwark, one of the oldest parts of London. In a typical Tudor house the weight of the house was carried on a wooden frame. The space between the wooden beams was filled in with either brick or plaster. Brick was costly so plaster was used as the infill between the beams in smaller houses. The plaster was whitewashed, giving houses their distinctive black-and-white appearance.
RMRJR5H4–The London Corn Exchange was designed by George Dance the Elder in the classical style, around a courtyard where Corn merchants could meet and arrange pricing with farmers for the sale of wheat, barley and other corn crops. In 1826 a rival exchange was set up by a group of discontented traders (the London Corn Exchange) who established their 'new' exchange, in Mark Lane, immediately alongside the 'old' exchange. It was designed, in the Greek style, by George Smith and opened in 1828. In 1882, the 'Old Exchange' was largely demolished and replaced by a far larger building (designed by Edward
RM2PHWY7X–A gentile street scene from 1865 of the ornate Victorian railway bridge over Ludgate Hill in the City of London, England. It was built for use by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company
RMRJYA4J–Goldsmiths' Hall at the junction of Foster Lane and Gresham Street in the City of London. It has served as an assay office and the headquarters of London's goldsmith guild, the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, one of the livery companies of the City of London, since 1339. This the third hall was designed by Philip Hardwick and those present at the opening dinner in 1835 included the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel.
RMRJR3T9–The interior of Goldsmiths' Hall at the junction of Foster Lane and Gresham Street in the City of London. It has served as an assay office and the headquarters of London's goldsmith guild, the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, one of the livery companies of the City of London, since 1339. This the third hall was designed by Philip Hardwick and those present at the opening dinner in 1835 included the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel.
RMRHAETN–A game of street football in the Strand in the City of Westminster, Central London. The street was popular with the British upper classes between the 12th and 17th centuries, with many historically important mansions being built between the Strand and the river. These included Essex House, Arundel House, Somerset House, Savoy Palace, Durham House and Cecil House. The aristocracy moved to the West End over the 17th century, following which the Strand became well known for coffee shops, restaurants and taverns.
RMRFT727–The old East India House, London headquarters of the East India Company, from which much of British India was governed until the British government took control of the Company's possessions in India in 1858. It was located in Leadenhall Street in the City of London. The first East India House on the site was an Elizabethan mansion, previously known as Craven House, which the Company first occupied in 1648. This was completely rebuilt in 1726–29; and further remodelled and extended in 1796–1800. It was demolished in 1861.
RMRMBPMF–Paternoster Row was a street in the City of London that was a centre of the London publishing trade, with booksellers operating from the street. It is supposed to have received its name from the fact that, when the monks and clergy of St Paul's Cathedral would go in procession chanting the great litany, they would recite the Lord's Prayer (Pater Noster being its opening line in Latin) in the litany along this part of the route. The prayers said at these processions may have also given the names to nearby Ave Maria Lane and Amen Corner. Apparently Charlotte and Ann Bronte stayed at the Chapter
RMR3KHEA–Puritans destroying the cross in Cheapside, a street in the City of London,England. The Puritans were English and Welsh Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries that became a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War (1642–1646). Many were iconoclasts, a term that has come to be applied figuratively to any individual who challenges 'cherished beliefs or venerated institutions on the grounds that they are erroneous or pernicious'a belief that reulted in the destruction of many religious icons and works of art in 17th Century England.
RMRFT74D–Old South Sea House, the headquarters of the South Sea Company on the corner of Bishopsgate Street and Threadneedle Street in the City of London was burned down in 1826. The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711 to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt. Granted a monopoly to trade with South America, but when the company was created, Britain was involved in the War of the Spanish Succession and Spain controlled South America. The company never realised any profit and collapsed in what became known as the South Sea Bubble.
RMPKHY71–The Grand March, part of the Medieval Watch of Midsummers Eve. The march comprised some 2,000 men, both mounted and on foot, comprising of gunners, archers, pike men. They were followed by the Constables of the Watch in full armour, accompanied by minstrels and morris dancers, and finally the mayor. It was cancelled by King Henry VIII and the saved cost of the pageant put towrds the watchmen.
RMR3KG19–King James I lying in state after his death on 27th March 1625. Prior to his death, the king was often seriously ill during the last year of his life, suffered increasingly from arthritis, gout and kidney stones, he also lost his teeth and drank heavily. He was rarely able to visit London, while Buckingham consolidated his control of Charles to ensure his own future. In early 1625, James was plagued by severe attacks of arthritis, gout, and fainting fits, and fell seriously ill, suffered a stroke and died at Theobalds House during a violent attack of dysentery, with Buckingham at his bedside.
RMRHAEPN–On the east side of the Isle of Dogs, Blackwall, London, is Folly Wall, a reminder of Thomas Davers, son of a famous admiral who decided to build a small fort on this spot “at great expense”. Considering the Isle of Dogs was largely uninhabited at the time this seemed an odd undertaking and after running into financial difficulties Thomas Davers sold his folly in 1754. Shortly afterwards Thomas Davers ended his own life by drowning himself in the Thames. A few years the property was turned into the Folly House or Folly House Tavern and became well known as a drinking establishment.
RMRKM1YH–The clock tower, built in 1706, of St Magnus the Martyr on Lower Thames Street seen through an arch of the new London Bridge opened in 1831 from a design by John Rennie.
RMRHAF59–From William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day, Noon, a boy has set down his pie to rest, but the plate has broken, spilling the pie onto the ground. The boy's features are modelled on those of a child in the foreground of Poussin's first version of The Abduction of the Sabine Women, the boy crying over his lost pie was apparently sketched by Hogarth after he witnessed the scene one day while he was being shaved.
RMPX76XE–John Taylor (1578-1653), born in Gloucester, was an English poet who dubbed himself 'The Water Poet' having spent much of his life as a Thames waterman, a member of the guild of boatmen that ferried passengers across the River Thames in Londons. Fancying himself as a poet, in 1630 he published a collection of over 150 poems. None of the poems are very good, but reveal of the life and times of people in the early modern period. He was well-enough known to gain the support of King Charles 1 when he campaigned against the pollution and hindrances to navigation of some of England’s rivers.
RM2P10433–The carriage of Queen Victoria en route through St James' Park for the opening of Parliament in 1860, at the Palace of Westminster in London, England.
RM2PJWTFR–Dogs arrive at the 1865 International Dog Show at Islington, 8 years before Crufts dog show debuts at the same location in London. Illustration by Harden Sidney Melville
RM2PGFJ87–Visitors at the Monument to Shakespeare at Crystal Palace, London, England, in 1864, for the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. The ambitious festival programme included the building of a huge pavilion to stage several events. One of the main events was a performance of Twelfth Night, the first time one of Shakespeare's plays had been performed on his birthday.
RMR3KH7G–The procession through Cheapside in London of Marie de' Medici, Queen of France to her daughter Henrietta Maria of France, queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland and her husband King Charles I.
RMR4X6PM–Oliver Cromwell's House in Clerkenwell Close, London where, so the story goes, the death warrant of Charles I was signed. The street was originally known as St. Mary’s Close after the old Benedictine Nunnery of St. Mary, part of which was latter incorporated into the church of St. James on the corner of the close.
RMRDM5AJ–An 18th Century lamplighter and his assistant in London, England. Employed to light and maintain the oil burning street lights lit each evening, In some communities, lamplighters served in a role akin to a town watchman; in others, it may have been seen as little more than a sinecure. By the 19th century however, gas lights became the dominant form of street lighting.
RMR3KH6X–The exterior of the Star Chamber, an English court of law which sat at the Royal Palace of Westminster, from the late 15th century to the mid-17th century and was composed of Privy Councillors and common-law judges, to supplement the judicial activities of the common-law and equity courts in civil and criminal matters. The Star Chamber was originally established to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against socially and politically prominent people so powerful that ordinary courts would probably hesitate to convict them of their crimes.
RMR3KHMC–The Treaty House in the town of Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon on the border with Buckinghamshire in the north-west part of Middlesex. At the end of the High Street on the Oxford Road stands the inn called The Crown and Treaty House. Above the entrance a legend is written, ‘Ancient Treaty House where the ill-fated Charles I held the memorable, but unsuccessful treaty with his Parliament in January 1645’. The negotiations were doomed to failure from the outset due to the attitude of Charles I and his view of divine right.
RMR6RMBN–The arrival of King Charles II to Clarendon House, a town mansion standing in Piccadilly in London, England, from the 1660s to the 1680s. It was built for the powerful politician Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon after the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660. In 1667, Clarendon fell from favour after the charge that he has appropriated stone intended for repairs to St. Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire to build his house. The King later abandoned his former favourite, who fled to France.
RM2KEFGNX–The arrival of the Lord Lieutenant at the National Cattle Show in Kilkenny City in the summer of 1665 in Ireland.
RMRAPCA2–Filthy streets littered with mud, refuse and excrement made 17th century travel difficult. In 1634 Sir Saunders Duncombe introduced the sedan chair for hire in London. They quickly became popular, being the quickest form of transport in the city, as they could pass down streets too narrow for carriages. They consisted of a seat inside a cabin with a detachable roof, mounted on two poles and carried by two men known as ‘chairmen’, one at the front and one at the rear.
RMR20J87–The Old Palace Yard at the Palace of Westminster where Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) was executed. In 1603, Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower for being involved in the Main Plot against King James I, who was not favourably disposed towards him. In 1616, he was released to lead a second expedition in search of El Dorado. During the expedition, men led by his top commander ransacked a Spanish outpost, in violation of both the terms of his pardon and the 1604 peace treaty with Spain. Raleigh returned to England and, to appease the Spanish, he was arrested and executed in 1618.
RM2PGFHXJ–'Quarter Day' The discomfort, hassle and fuss when relocating or moving house, somewhere in England circa 1863
RM2KEFGEW–A ball in aid of the Irish Academy of Music given in the Concert Hall during the second Dublin International Exhibition, during the summer of 1865 in Ireland.
RM2KYMCBX–The collapse of an Edinburgh tenement with loss of life in November 1861. From 77 occupants, 35 perished or died in hospital from their injuries. The 250 years old seven-storey building comprised mostly of timber, which toppled that fateful night was located in the heart of Edinburgh’s densely-populated Old Town, on the north side of the High Street.The City Improvement Act was passed in 1867, and by the close of the 19th century much of the Old Town’s medieval housing had disappeared.
RM2KEFGAH–Delivery by horse and cart of display items for the second Dublin International Exhibition held in what became Iveagh Gardens during the summer of 1865 in Ireland.
RM2KEFGC3–Passing through the Sculpture Hall, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII opens the second Dublin International Exhibition held in what became Iveagh Gardens, during the summer of 1865 in Ireland.
RM2KB0WXG–Crowds watching the laying of the foundation stone of the O'Connell Monument in Sackville Street, now called O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland. Daniel O'Connell, aka 'the Liberator'secured the passage of the Catholic Emancipation Act in 1829 and was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin. Further upstreet can be seen Nelson's Column, blown up by the IRA in 1966.
RM2KB0TK7–A ball given by the Lord Mayor in honour of the visit of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert during the monarch's third trip to Ireland in August, 1861. It took place in the Mansion House, in Kildare Street, Dublin.
RM2KEFGDW–A display of art from overseas in the Exhibition Centre erected for the second Dublin International Exhibition held in what became Iveagh Gardens, during the summer of 1865 in Ireland.
RM2PGFJ06–A photographic portrait being shot of a mother and two of her children in a very middle class drawing room in mid 19th century England. From 'The Photographer' by William Bromley
RM2KEFGA7–At the second Dublin International Exhibition held in what became Iveagh Gardens during the Irish summer of 1865, soldiers place the Armstrong gun on gun carriages. The rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun was designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England by the Elswick Ordnance Company and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich.
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