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RMRFT6YP–An 18th Century view of the junction of Cornhill and Lombard Street with the tower of the Royal Exchange in the distance, London, England. The Royal Exchange in London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Thomas Gresham on the suggestion of his factor Richard Clough to act as a centre of commerce for the City of London
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.
RMRFT77N–By the 18th century, Pall Mall was well known for its grand houses as well as shops that included that of the Vulliamy family who made clocks, Robert Dodsley ran a bookshop at No. 52, where he suggested the idea of a dictionary to Samuel Johnson. Writers and artists like Thomas Gainsborough began to move to Pall Mall during this century. The street was one of the first in London to be lit by gas after Frederick Albert Winsor set up experimental lighting in1807 to celebrate King George III's birthday. Permanent lighting was installed in 1820.
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.
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
RMRDM5CF–Shoeshiner or boot polisher in 18th Century London, England; an occupation in which a person polishes shoes with shoe polish. They are often known as shoeshine boys because the job is traditionally that of a male child. Other synonyms are bootblack and shoeblack. While the role is denigrated in much of Western civilization, shining shoes is an important source of income for many children and families throughout the world.
RMRHAE5T–The Royal Exchange in Cornhill and Threadneedle Street, London was founded in the 16th century by the merchant Thomas Gresham as a centre of commerce for the City of London. It has twice been destroyed by fire and subsequently rebuilt. The illustration shows the second complex built on the site, designed by Edward Jarman, opened in 1669 and burned down in 1838. Traditionally, the steps of the Royal Exchange is the place where royal proclamations, dissolution of parliament; death or abdication of a monarch; confirmation of the next monarch's accession to the throne are read out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
RMF37RCE–View of East India House in Leadenhall Street in the City of London, England was the headquarters of the British East India Company
RMRDM5BW–An 18th Century footman, about to extinguish his flambeau (or torch) in an extinguisher at the side of a residence door, City of London, England
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
RMGA3NW5–The old East India House, 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 demolished in 1861. Leadenhall Street, London.
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.
RMRHAEY5–A Fleet Marriage was an irregular or a clandestine marriage that took place in London's Fleet Prison or its environs especially in the early 18th century. Clandestine' marriages had an element of secrecy to them and took place away from a home parish without either banns or marriage licence. The scandal and abuses brought about by these clandestine marriages became so great that they became the object of special legislation with Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act of 1754 that required banns to be published or a licence obtained and the marriage solemnized in church.
RMRHAF14–Portrait of Sir John Fielding (1721-1780), English magistrate and social reformer of the 18th century. Despite being blinded aged19, John studied law with his half-brother and chief magistrate Henry Fielding. John Fielding was known as the 'Blind Beak' for his ability to identify criminals by the sound of their voices. He root out corruption and improved justice in London. They formed the first professional police force, the Bow Street Runners, circulated the Police Gazette with descriptions of known criminals and established the first police criminal records department.
RMRHAF3G–18th Century London, the day after being sworn into office, the Lord Mayor leads a procession from the City of London to the Royal Courts of Justice in the City of Westminster, where the Lord Mayor swears allegiance to the Crown, an annual event that became known as the 'Lord Mayor's Show'. The Lord Mayor travels in the City's state coach that was built in 1757 at a cost of £1,065.0s.3d.
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.
RMR6RR2F–Designed and built by Sir Christopher Wren and his son in 1715, the Chapter House is elegant red brick building located immediately next to the St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
RMRFT7G3–The Hall of Doctors' Commons, also called the College of Civilians, was a society of lawyers practising civil law in London. Like the Inns of Court of the common lawyers, the society had buildings with rooms where its members lived and worked, and a large library. Court proceedings of the civil law courts were also held in Doctors' Commons.
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.
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.
RMRFT6WK–Mansion House, official residence of the Lord Mayor of London was built in Walbrook between 1739 and 1752, in the then fashionable Palladian style by the surveyor and architect George Dance the Elder. The construction was prompted by a wish to put an end to the inconvenient practice of lodging the Lord Mayor in one of the City Halls. Dance won a competition over designs solicited from James Gibbs and Giacomo Leoni but construction was slowed by the discovery of springs on the site, which meant piles had to be sunk to form the foundations.
RMRFT758–The Admiralty, in Whitehall, London, England, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire. The oldest part known as The Admiralty is a three-storey U-shaped brick building designed by Thomas Ripley and completed in 1726 and notable for being perhaps the first purpose-built office building in Great Britain for the Lords of the Admiralty. View before Robert Adam designed the screen added to the entrance front in 1788.
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.
RM2G66H96–A late 19th century view of the Bank of England, the central bank of the United Kingdom, established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom, it is the world's eighth-oldest bank. The Bank moved to its current location in Threadneedle Street in 1734, acquired neighbouring land to create the site necessary for erecting the Bank's original home at this location, under the direction of its chief architect Sir John Sloane, between 1790 and 1827.
RM2BFP34F–A view of Hanover Square in London, England painted around 1787 by Robert Dodd (1748–1815), a British marine painter and aquatint engraver. He is known for his works on the French Revolutionary Wars.
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.
RMRJYA8T–Mansion House is in a short street that connects Poultry and Queen Victoria Street. It is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London and was built between 1739 and 1752, in the then fashionable Palladian style by the surveyor and architect George Dance the Elder. The construction was prompted by a wish to put an end to the inconvenient practice of lodging the Lord Mayor in one of the City Halls. Dance won a competition over designs solicited from James Gibbs and Giacomo Leoni, and uninvited submissions by Batty Langley and Isaac Ware.
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.
RM2PJWT7E–The infant orphan election was an unpleasant example of Victorian charity, held at the London Tavern in Bishopsgate Street. Children whose parents had once been in more prosperous circumstances were put up for election in order to gain entrance into a variety of charitable institutions. In the painting by George Elgar Hicks elegant 18th century rooms at the tavern were hung with posters and election placards, encouraging those present to vote for particular children.
RMRJ70C4–Thomas Guy (1644 – 27 December 1724) was a British bookseller, speculator and de facto founder of Guy's Hospital, London. Born a son of a lighterman, wharf owner and coal-dealer at Southwark he began his own bookstore in Lombard Street and became book publisher. Despite a reputation for miserliness, in 1725 he opened the Guy's Hospital opposite to Thomas' Hospital at a cost of £18,793, 16 shillings.
RMR9XGDE–Craven House was situated at the corner of Drury Lane and Wych Street. Originally named Drury House, in the late 17th century it was acquired by the wealthy Earl of Craven who rebuilt and renamed it. His mistress the Queen of Bohemia (daughter of James I and direct ancestor of the Hanoverian dynasty) was also in residence here. By the 18th century Drury Lane was no longer a fashionable location and was known by for drunkenness and debauchery.
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.
RMRHAF60–From William Hogarth's 'The Four Stages of Cruelty', series of four printed engravings published by the English artist in 1751 with each print depicting a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero.
RMRFT762–The London Surgeons' Hall conveniently stood in the Old Bailey, near the court of conviction, Newgate and those about to be executed. It is a handsome building, ornamented with Ionic pilasters, and with a double flight of steps to the first floor. Beneath is a door for the admission of the bodies of murderers and other felons, who, after execution, were dissected in the Surgeons' Theatre, according to an Act passed in 1752, and which was only repealed in the reign of William IV.
RMRKM2AE–One of the early 19th Century retail developments in Leicester Square, London, England. Laid out in 1670, it was originally a gentrified residential area, but became more down-market in the late 18th century when Leicester House was demolished and retail developments took place, becoming a centre for entertainment. Several major theatres were established in the 19th century, which were converted to cinemas towards the middle of the next.
RMR9XGC7–A highly decorative house in early 17th Century Moorfields, one of the last pieces of open land in the City of London, near the Moorgate. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, refugees from the fire evacuated there and set up temporary camps there. King Charles II of England encouraged the dispossessed to move on and leave London, but it is unknown how many newly impoverished and displaced persons instead settled in the Moorfields area. In the early 18th century, Moorfields was the site of sporadic open-air markets, shows, and vendors/auctions.
RMRMBNXX–Covent Garden in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End is associated with the former fruit-and-vegetable market in the central square. By 1654 a small open-air fruit-and-vegetable market had developed on the south side of the fashionable square. Gradually, both the market and the surrounding area fell into disrepute, as taverns, theatres, coffee-houses and brothels opened up. By the 18th century it had become a red-light district. An Act of Parliament was drawn up to control the area, and Charles Fowler's neo-classical market building was erected in 1830.
RM2FBE4E8–Newgate prison burning during the Gordon Riots of 1780, several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Violence started on 2 June 1780, with the looting and burning of Catholic chapels in foreign embassies. The Government finally sent in the Army, resulting in an estimated 300-700 deaths
RMRHAET7–The Shakespeare Jubilee staged in Stratford-upon-Avon between 6 and 8 September 1769 was organised by the actor and theatre manager David Garrick to celebrate the Jubilee of the birth of William Shakespeare. He planned the celebration with major figures from London's cultural, political and economic world attending and oversaw the construction of a large rotunda, based on that in Ranelagh Gardens in London, which could hold 1,000 spectators.
RMHJ93FC–Francis David Stirn, (1735-1760) purchased two loaded pistols. Two days later, at about 10 pm he entered the Pewter Platter, a pub in Cross Street, in London where he claim that a colleague, Richard Matthews had accused him of theft and adultery. Stirn paced around the room until Stirn suddenly shot Matthews in the chest with a concealed pistol. Sentenced to death he later committed suicide in prison.
RMM29DXY–St John's Gate, in the Clerkenwell area of London, is one of the few tangible remains from Clerkenwell's monastic past. It was built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of Clerkenwell Priory, the priory of the Knights of Saint John (known as the Knights Hospitaller). From 1701 to 1709, it was the childhood home of the painter William Hogarth when his father Richard opened a coffee house there, 'Hogarth's Coffee House', offering Latin lessons together with the coffee.
RMF3449J–Following King George III's speech at the opening of parliament in 1763, John Wilkes criticised it in issue No 45 of the 'North Briton'. The number was synonymous with the 'Jacobite Rising of 1745' and after his arrest for sedition, people rioted chanting, 'Wilkes, Liberty and Number 45', referring to the newspaper.
RMF32GNT–In 1701, Daniel Defoe's Legion's Memorial was presented to his employer, Robert Harley, Speaker of the House of Commons. It demanded the release of the Kentish petitioners, who had asked Parliament to support the king in an imminent war against France.
RMF32GPG–St. James's Palace during the Reign of Queen Anne in 1704. Situated in Pall Mall, just north of St. James's Park, it is one of London's oldest palaces.
RMR6RMA0–The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting based on anti-Catholic feeling. They began with a massive and orderly protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics. The protest evolved into riots and widespread looting and resulted in the burning of Newgate Prison at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey just inside the City of London, England. Painted on the wall of Newgate prison was the proclamation that the inmates had been freed by the authority of 'His Majesty, King Mob', a term 'King Mob' aft
RMF3447K–Frederick, Prince of Wales and the eldest son of George II, at Temple Bar, London, drinking success to the European War of Austrian Succession on the death of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in 1740.
RMF37PC5–The Popery Act 1778 eliminated a number of penalties and disabilities on Roman Catholics in England; following this, a peaceful protest led to the Gordon Riots (named after Lord George Gordon) with widespread rioting and looting in London.
RMM8KH9T–Not far from the Westminster Abbey stood the Sanctuary, a place of refuge, demolished in 1775. It appears that under Norman kings this privilege was of a twofold character, protecting both debtors and criminals from arrest, absurdly indulgenced in old times to criminals of certain descriptions. London, England
RMF37PGT–The No Popery (or Gordon) Rioters attacking London's Newgate Prison in June 1780 which was largely destroyed, allowing large numbers of prisoners to escape, many of whom were never recaptured.
RMF32H74–Frenzied investors in South Sea Bubble, the speculation mania that ruined many British investors in 1720. It was a hoax centred on the South Sea Company, founded in 1711 to trade with Spanish America.
RMF32H5K–The proclamation of George I, proclaimed King of Great Britain and Ireland after Queen Anne suffered a stroke and died on 1 August 1714. George was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 20 October.
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'.
RM2F4487C–19th Century illustration of the Bank of Ireland Building on the corner of College Green, Dublin, Ireland, built in 1729 was originally Ireland’s Parliament Building. Designed by Edward Lovett Pearce, it served the chambers for the Lords and for the Commons for the Irish Parliament of ‘The Kingdom of Ireland’ for most of the 1700s until the 1801 Act of Union shifted power back to London. The building was sold to the Bank of Ireland under the condition that it should not be used for political assemblies.
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