The Sir Paul Pindar, Bishopsgate Street. Photographer: Bool, Alfred and John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the street towards the façade of the Sir Paul Pindar Tavern, with the entrance to Halfmoon Street to the right: 'Since the photograph was taken, the house on the spectator's left, marked as the site of a new hospital, has been destroyed ... T...
Staple Inn, Holborn front. Photographer: Bool, Alfred and John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the street looking along the façade: 'This is in truth one of the most picturesque groups of Old London houses. They are also among the oldest, dating apparently from the time of James I., or perhaps somewhat earlier … The obelisk, topped by a lamp, ma...
Genre: Architectural Photography View across the courtyard towards the hall of Barnard's Inn: 'Barnard's Inn has of late been the subject of many notices in the Press, owing to a report, which is believed to be premature, of its sale. The Inn has, however, been for years 'in the market,' and th...
Old houses in Aldersgate Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of commercial premises on Aldersgate Street. The shop on the right at number 134, calling itself 'Shakespeare's House,' is the stationer and newsagent E. B. Smith. The newspaper flyers in front of the building deal with events of the Second Afghan War. 'Th...
Old houses in Aldersgate Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of 148-145 Aldersgate Street: 'This group of houses has no history that can be, or at least has been traced. The houses are interesting specimens of street architecture of the beginning of the seventeenth century. They are now about to be demolished.'
Shaftesbury House, Aldersgate Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the façade of Shaftesbury House: 'It was built about 1644 by Inigo Jones. This house has had varied fortunes. From the Earls of Thanet it passed to Anthony Ashley Cooper, afterwards first Earl of Shaftesbury ... At the beginning of the eighteenth...