East End Photographs and Drawings

[Mike Covell]

Hi Mike
You missed the ghost on the right of the 1899 Middlesex Street photo!

You can almost here him saying, "I am Ja....

[Stephen Thomas]

Really weird

I looked at the Skyscrapercity site that Martian mentioned and found a picture of the Croydon Tax Office which provides a really weird optical effect when you scroll up and down. I copied it to post here but the effect didn't work.

Check it out here. It's post#100 at the bottom of the page.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=551397&page=5

[m_w_r]

I posted the old pic on skyscrapercity.com (in a thread called "Lost London")

Click here to link to the thread concerned. It's well worth seeing. The C*ck and Magpie, featured in the first post, would seem to be different to the one we discussed in the Stephenson Related Pictures thread.

Thanks to Martian for his endeavours.

Mark

[Chris Scott]

Very well done Martian!
I always like to see loose ends tied up and errors corrected
In case anyone is wondering about the origin of the claim that this was a London street, I was the one who posted it under the description "A Spitalfields Street"
The origin of this was the public Member Photos section of ancestry.co.uk
Very glad to have the record set straight and well done:-)
Chris

[George Hutchinson]

Chris - as it's Newcastle, maybe the poster meant to write 'a spit-filled street'.

What? Wha-aat?

PHILIP

PS : Whatever happened to that limited edition book?

[Celesta]

About that street some pages back. It´s in Newcastle.

Is this what they call the Shambles? I've seen postcards of the the Shambles and have been so tempted to buy them. This looks a look like those. Nice pix, Martian2.

Regards,

Cel

[Celesta]

Paddy, Nice pictures, as usual. Thanks.

You, too, Sam. I like that one.

[Sam Flynn]

Is this what they call the Shambles?

The Shambles is in York, Cel, but you're right - this remnant of Old Newcastle has a similar feel to it.

[Chris Scott]

Hi Philip
The book is still on the blocks - these things always take longer than you think they are going to!
It is all proof read and we are finalising the illustrations and artwork at the moment and I will post on the thread I started for it as soon as it is available
Regards
Chris

[Celesta]

The Shambles is in York, Cel, but you're right - this remnant of Old Newcastle has a similar feel to it.

Thanks, Sam. I'll look for cards from both areas. Love the ramshackle look!

[Paddy Goose]

My kudos too to Martian2. Glad you liked the pics, folks -- Paddy

Is this what they call the Shambles?

A carbon print of Old Houses in Aldgate. In the 1870s and 80s, Henry Dixon was commissioned by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London to record historic buildings threatened with demolition. These old houses in Aldgate – known as the ‘Shambles’ – were demolished in 1880 to make way for the Metropolitan Railway’s extension from Aldgate to Tower Hill. The photograph was first published in 1883.

[The Grave Maurice]

"Bicycle School" --- I love it!

[George Hutchinson]

Paddy - I have a copy of this shot in the book A COCKNEY CAMERA (1975) but your copy is so much sharper.

Celesta - I go to York on holiday once or twice a year and have done for over a decade now. I've got masses of postcards of The Shambles. Are you coming to Knoxville? I could bring some with me. Or I could just post you some. It is as wonderful as it looks and is full of very quaint old shops, even housing a shrine to the Catholic martyr Margaret Clitheroe although it's now known that her house was on the other side of the street and a few doors away!

PHILIP

[Mike Covell]

I have friends in York and we visit all the time, no trip is complete without a walk along the Shambles! At night it's fantastic and although usually busy it is pretty atmospheric.

I love these old buildings were the next floor up expands over the previous floor so by the time you are at the highest level your several feet over the street! Must have been pretty claustrophobic, worse if you don't get on with the people who live opposite!

I have a couple of locations in York due for investigation earlier next year!!

[caz]

A carbon print of Old Houses in Aldgate. In the 1870s and 80s, Henry Dixon was commissioned by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London to record historic buildings threatened with demolition. These old houses in Aldgate – known as the ‘Shambles’ – were demolished in 1880 to make way for the Metropolitan Railway’s extension from Aldgate to Tower Hill. The photograph was first published in 1883.

Hi Paddy,

My great grandfather and his brother, Alfred and John Bool, were also photographers
who worked with Henry Dixon on that commission. Their work included various shots
of the Oxford Arms and the Poors' Churchyard, including these two:





Love,

Caz
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