Is this Dutfield Yard ?

[Bridewell]

Hi All,

Interesting photo, wherever it is. It's not Browns Yard is it? (Just thinking of the size of the building to the right of the picture).

Regards, Bridewell.

[CitizenX]

I doubt its Browns yard...The railway tracks were directly to the right of Browns yard and then the board school...This buildings too close..and doesn't look like the school.

[Bridewell]

I doubt its Browns yard...The railway tracks were directly to the right of Browns yard and then the board school...This buildings too close..and doesn't look like the school.

Thanks for that. I posted more in hope than expectation.

Regards, Bridewell.

[Stephen Thomas]

No way Dutfields Yard but a super old photo nonetheless.

The same only different. Thanks.

[Monty]

I suspect its an image from the book 'Lost London'.

Unless someone wishes to verify before, I shall check tomorrow.

Monty

[Archaic]

Is It Definitely A Scene from London?

Hi Gene.

I'm wondering if you have a particular reason for thinking this photograph depicts a scene in London, rather than in some other city? Did you happen to find the photo in France, or perhaps on the internet?

I keep asking myself why someone would have taken a photo of such an ordinary, rubbish-strewn yard in the first place.

The photo appears to be fairly early, judging by its general appearance and the faded-out ghostly upper rooftops that didn't photograph clearly.

By the way, Gene, welcome to Casebook!

Best regards,
Archaic

[Stephen Thomas]

I suspect its an image from the book 'Lost London'.

Unless someone wishes to verify before, I shall check tomorrow.

Hi Monty

No, it's not from the astonishingly wonderful 'Lost London' book.

[Monty]

I will take your word for it Stephen, thank you.

Wherever it is, it is most certainly not Dutfields Yard.

Could be one of many yards.

Monty

[mariab]

Hi Gene.
I'm wondering if you have a particular reason for thinking this photograph depicts a scene in London, rather than in some other city? Did you happen to find the photo in France, or perhaps on the internet?

Definitely not French. Typical London design, esp. the wall on the right. Looks like one of those ubiquitous East London yellow brick walls.

Could someone (John Bennett, Wick, Monty) clarify where the sketch of Berner Street attached on post #12 is from?

[Beowulf]

Definitely not French. Typical London design, esp. the wall on the right. Looks like one of those ubiquitous East London yellow brick walls.

Could someone (John Bennett, Wick, Monty) clarify where the sketch of Berner Street attached on post #12 is from?

"Dutfield's Yard as depicted in Famous Crimes, Past and Present, Harold Furniss 1903" http://wiki.casebook.org/index.php/Dutfield's_Yard

[mariab]

Thank you so much, Beowulf. Should have been checking the developing casebook wiki more often!

[Monty]

Pictorial News 6 October 88.

Monty

[Gene Lewis]

Hello all !
I have the answer to my own question, just browsing the book i mentioned, and yes, it's out of "Lost London", and it is NOT Dutfield's Yard... I should have begin by verifying by myself : it's a (cropped) scan of a place called "Chapel Yard" - St Giles in the Fields, page 136, LL.
Apologize, i thought i'd find a new canonical stuff... Not so easy...
regards
GL

[Gene Lewis]

To Archaic: I had no particular reason thinking it was a London scene:I was only (almost) SURE it was Dutfield's Yard, for it was so close from the well-known sketches of the place !!!

[Gene Lewis]

Conclusion : when you want to believe, similarities are stronger than differences... Findings old traces is a long way, I guess.
(I'll remember I'm only a cadet…

But what! The zigzag rooftops, the pointed roof and the carriage in the foreground: just Mr Diemschutz missing !