Shop, Macclesfield Street, Soho. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of the shop-front from the street. The building is fronted by four ionic columns: 'The shop, well-known to architects as 'the oldest shop in London,' was probably build about 1690.'
Old houses, Fleet Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a group of shops: 'Tradition claims for the house shown in the middle of the photograph the honour of having been the residence of the author of 'Polyolbion' [Michael Drayton] … The house certainly dates from before the Fire, and it agrees with Aubrey's ...
The 'Old Bell,' Holborn. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the street towards the façade of the Old Bell Tavern and Hotel: 'The house is said to date from the early part of the 16th century, though, of course, the present building is comparatively modern … The 'Old Bell' still retains something of it...
Old house, Fore Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a timber-framed house on the corner of Fore Street and Milton Street: 'This house, of a type very rare in London — made rarer still by the demolition of this subject — dates probably from before the Great Fire … This house stood on the corner of Milton S...
Old house, Great Winchester Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the courtyard towards the entrance of 'the residence of a great merchant of the beginning of the 18th century.' A notice affixed to the building states that this 'valuable site will shortly be cleared for rebuilding.'
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the alley towards No. 10 Austin-Friars, with the entrance to Austin-Friars Passage in the left foreground: 'The house, No. 10, is a good example of the genuine Queen Anne style; its date, 1704, is seen on the rain-pipe.'