Lost London 1870-1945

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Now a still more hefty tome with the same title, accompanying an exhibition, appears under the mainstream auspices of English Heritage, authored indeed by the organisation’s London and South-East England Planning and Development Director – though, as I am sure he realises, the very words ‘planning and development’ carry a whisper of warning to those who have lived through the worse that planning can do. I’d better speed up here, because there’s no way I can do justice to more than a handful of entries. Light offsetting on endpapers, near fine in a very good dustwrapper with short tears on nicks on edges and modest internal tape repair. There is something infinitely humbling involved when you see places that were vital, inhabited, beautiful, ugly --- and now they're gone as if they never existed.

The book starts itself on the cities fringes, in working neighbourhoods, with narrow lanes, crooked, time-worn, overhanging houses. There are some striking images of how the local population went about their daily lives and, perhaps surprisingly, how detailed some of the commercial establishment images portray the range of goods and services on offer to them. Having seized this excellent bargain, I can honestly say that I have enjoyed every last fascinating page. Before replacing your pass it may be worth checking at a tube station to ensure that there is a fault on the pass. Lets get straight to it, because there are so many great things about this book, wonderful writing, the photos seem still alive, every photo is a novel.Taken to provide a unique record of whole districts of London as they were vanishing, each of the photographs is a full-plate image, a stunning work of art in its own right. Philp Davies’ magnificent and seriously weighty tome of London County Council photographs, Lost London 1970-1945, is the kind of book I used to edit for EH.

Constat amer des démolitions iniques de bâtiments qui auraient pu être sauvegardés pour nombre d'entre eux. However, as a shiny new PhD graduate in English I knew nothing about architecture in my new job, so I tended to keep my mouth shut and my pen scribbling at meetings. They’ve been in the news quite a lot lately; my sister sent me these of Oxford, which I absolutely love, and just today I spotted this fascinating set of photos comparing the sites of the D-Day landings back in 1944 with how they are today.

The real heartbreak comes with the bombing of WWII, where many of Christopher Wren's churches were destroyed. With hindsight, you wish that they had not demolished even the smallest buildingn as today they would have been beautiful, fascinating and wonderful additions to our city. Once you receive your new pass you must send your old pass to us at the above address within 10 working days of you receiving your pass. If you want to see the capital’s oldest structures by far, then you have to be at Vauxhall at low tide.

otherwise a great resource and fascinating, especially stuff like advertising boards and other ephemera and as an example of just how squalid many places were. The one that stands out most in my mind shows three boys from the East End, a notorious hotspot of crime and poverty, two of whom are so poor that they are barefoot. Described as a publishing phenomenon, Lost London transports the reader back in time with amazing and evocative photographs. From the dust jacket: "Lost London 1870-1945 is a spectacular collection of more than 500 of the best images from the formor London County Council archive of photographs.The best book in my library is definitely this book of old photos of London, so I am reproducing this review here by way of recommending it. Consequently, I dare say that Davies did for the multiple photographers whose images he used in the book what Berenice Abbott did for Eugène Atget.