London landmarks in 1888

[JTRSickert]

hello everyone. I was just curious to know that, in 1888, what famous London landmarks were up at the time. I know that some significant ones (like Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament/Clock Tower, St. Paul's Cathedral, and The Tower) were up while others (like Tower Bridge and, obviously, the London Eye) were not up yet. I was just wondering if anyone else here can help clarify for me what else was up at the time I may have missed and what definitely still needed to be completed. Like, Tate Britain? Shakespeare's Globe? Etc.

Oh, and how about Canary Wharf? HA ha...kidding. I know THAT was not up yet.

[Mike Covell]

Some Victorian Buildings and Sites...

The Tower.
Westminster Abbey.
St. Paul's.
British Museum.
National Gallery.
Houses of Parliament.
Westminster Hall.
St. James's Park.
St. James's Palace.
Buckingham Palace.
Hyde Park, between ½ past 5 and ½ past 6 p.m. in May and June.
Kensington Gardens.
Lambeth Palace.
Whitehall.
Apsley House.
Thames between Chelsea and Greenwich.
Fleet-street.
Strand.
Charing Cross and Charles I's Statue.
Cheapside.
London Bridge.
Waterloo Bridge.
Thames Tunnel.
Piccadilly.
Pall Mall.
Regent-street.
Regent's Park.
East and West India Docks.
London Docks.
St. Katherine's Docks.
Commercial Docks.
Smithfield.
Covent-garden Market.
London Stone.
Temple Bar.
The Monument.
The Mint.
Temple Church.
Row Church.
St. Stephen's, Walbrook.
Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park.
Surrey Zoological Gardens.
Goldsmiths' Hall.
Soane Museum.
Royal Exchange.
Bank of England.
Christ's Hospital.
College of Surgeons.
Times Newspaper Office.
Barclay's Brewhouse.
Clewes's Printing Office, [see Stamford Street, Blackfriars]
Museum of Practical Geology.
United Service Museum.
East India House Museum.
Museum of the Asiatic Society.
Polytechnic Institution.
The Italian Opera, in the Haymarket.
Covent-garden Theatre, (now an Italian Opera).
Drury-lane Theatre.
Haymarket Theatre.
Adelphi Theatre.
Lyceum Theatre.
St. James's Theatre.
Sadlers Wells Theatre.
Astley's Amphitheatre.
Princess's Theatre.
Exeter Hall Concerts.
Vauxhall Gardens.
Cremorne Gardens.
Royal Academy Exhibition opens first Monday in May-closes about middle of July.
Old Water-Colour Exhibition.
New Water-Colour Exhibition.
British Institution Exhibition of Modern Masters, (open February to May).
British Institution Exhibition of Ancient Masters, (open in July).
Society of British Artists, Suffolk-street.
The Exhibition at Hyde Park Corner.
Horticultural Fetes at Chiswick, (May, June, and July). Chiswick is 5 miles from Hyde Park Corner.
Horticultural Fetes at the Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park.
Colosseum, Panorama, Diorama, and Egyptian Hall.
National Gallery.
Queen's collection at Buckingham Palace.
Bridgewater Gallery - (shown every Wednesday, when Lord Ellesmere is not in town).
Grosvenor Gallery.
Duke of Sutherland's Murillos; Earl of Arundel, by Van Dyck.
The Correggio, (Christ in lhe Garden), and other pictures, at Apsley house.
The Van Dyck Portraits and Sketches, (en grisaille), fine Canaletti, (View of Whitehall), at Montague House.
Lady Garvagh's Raphael, No. 26, Portman-square.
Duke of Grafton's duplicate or original of the Louvre picture, by Van Dyck, of Charles I. standing by his Horse.
The Holbein, at Barber-Surgeons' hall.
The Holbein, at Bridewell.
Titian's Cornaro Family, at Northumberland House.
Rubens's Ceiling, at Whitehall.
The old masters and Diploma Pictures, at the Royal Academy.
The Van Dycks, at Earl de Grey's, in St. James's-square.
Sir Robert Peel's Dutch Pictures, at Whitehall.
Mr. Hope's Dutch pictures, Piccadilly, (corner of Down-street).
Mr. Neeld's collection, No. 6, Grosvenor-square.
Mr. Rogers's collection, No. 22, St. James's-place.
Lord Ashburton's collection, at Bath house, Piccadilly.
Lord Ward's collection.
Marquis of Hertford's collection.
Lord Normanton's collection.
Baron Rothschild's collection.
Mr. R.S. Hoelford's collection, (at present, 1850, at No. 65, Russell-square).
Mr. Morrison's collection.
Mr. Tomline's Pool of Bethesda, by Murillo, at No. 1, Carlton-House-terrace.
The Hogarths and Canaletti, at the Soane Museum
The Hogarths, at the Foundling Hospital, Lincolns Inn Hall, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
The three fine Sir Joshua Reynolds', at the Dilettanti Society, Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street.
The English collections of Mr. Sheepshanks, at Rutland Gate; of Mr. Munro, in Hamilton-place, Piccadilly; of Mr. Gibbons, No. 17, Hanover-terrace, Regent's Park; of Mr. Bicknell, at Herne-hill; and Mr. Windus's Turner drawings, at Tottettham, (shown on every Tuesday).
The Dulwich Gallery.
Raphael's Cartoons, &c., at Hampton Court.
The Van Dyck pictures, &c., at Windsor.
The Norman Chapel, in the Tower.
The Norman Crypt, under the church of St. Mary-le-Bow.
St. Bartholomew the Great.
St. Mary Overy.
Westminster Abbey.
Westminster Stall.
Temple Church.
Dutch Church, Austin Friars.
Ely Chapel.
The Crypt at Guildhall.
The Crypt at St. John's, Clerkenwell.
Allhallows Barking.
St. Olave's, Hart-street.
Crosby Hall.
Savoy Chapel.
The Crypt at Gerard's Hall.
St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell.
Lambeth Palace - (the Chapel and Hall).
Holland House, Kensington.
The Elgin, Phigalian, Townley, and other marbles, in the British Museum.
The marbles at Lansdowne House.
The bas-relief, by Michael Angelo, at the Royal Academy.
The sculpture in St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey.
Statue of Charles I., at Charing-cross.
Statue of James II., behind Whitehall.
The several statues in the squares and public places - Pitt, in Hanover-squarc; Fox, in Bloomsbury-square; George III., in Cockspur-street; George IV., in Trafalgar-square; the Duke of Wellington, before the Royal Exchange and at Hyde Park Corner.
The two statues of Madness and Melancholy, by Cibber, at Bethlehem Hospital.
Flaxman's models at University College, in Gower-street.
The British Museum.
The Tower.
Westminster Abbey, &c.
The Museum of the Society of Antiquaries, at Somerset House.
The remains of London Wall.
London Stone.
The collection at the City of London Library.
The Roman Bath under the Coal Exchange.
The collections of Mr. Gwilt, Union-street, Borough, and of Mr. C. Roach Smith, F.S.A., Liverpool-street, City.
The Gothic churches ...
Painted window in St. Margaret's, Westminster.
Monument of Camden, in Westminster Abbey.
Monument of Stow, in St. Andrew's Undershaft.

[JTRSickert]

Wow, Mike, I hope you didn't have to manually type all that! LOL

[Mike Covell]

Their are a number of sources available online showing a wide range of Victorian buildings, attractions and architecture.

[JTRSickert]

Ah, I'm sure there are. I guess I jsut have to chalk it up to my own laziness..and the fact that I am at work right now.

[C. F. Leon]

Don't forget The Crystal Palace at Crystal Park with Waterhouse Hawkins' wonderful antediluvian sculptures!

- CFL