Holywell Street was set amongst the kind of narrow, twisting streets and dingy courts that could shelter the denizens of many a dubious trade. With its overhanging fronts it was old, squalid, cramp London from the Elizabethan age, just off the fashionable Strand which was far more the bustling metropolis of a modern world city desired by the authorities. The biggest figure amongst Holywell Street’s publishers was William Dugdale – a forger, radical, plagiarist, pornographer and general shady character of the Victorian underworld. Henry Ashbee, the obsessive collector of erotica and works and also suspected to be Walter in My Secret Life – a sprawling secret sexual memoir of a Victorian gentleman, described Dugdale as “one of the most prolific publishers of filthy books”. The discount can be added to a standard Oyster card or Visitor Oyster card by a member of staff at: Ahead of his screening of Lost in London , I sat down with Woody Harrelson to ask him a few questions. The Rayment Society have lists of London streets with changed names, arranged by both old and new names.

off adult-rate pay as you go fares and daily caps on bus, Tube, tram, DLR, London Overground, Elizabeth line and most National Rail services Flyers collected by Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings … The Scarcity of Liberty #2. Photograph: Courtesy the artists and Arcadia Missa Rebuilt by Wren after the Great Fire. Largely destroyed by bombing in 1940; tower and ruins remain.The London Jews Database (compiled by Jeffrey Maynard) can be searched together with other UK Jewish databases of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire with an alphabetical list of people mentioned - provided by British History Online GENfair, the Federation of Family History Societies "One-Stop Shop" for Family and Local Historians.

Busis, Hillary (13 January 2017). "See Jennifer Lawrence, Justin Timberlake, and More Roast Woody Harrelson". Vanity Fair . Retrieved 14 January 2017. Built for Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassical architect James "Athenian" Stuart. Damaged by an incendiary bomb.Residence of Henry VIII from 1515 to 1523; prison and hospital from 1556. Largely rebuilt after the Great Fire of London. Closed 1855. [2] www.cityoflondonchurches.com - City of London churches - from Stephen Millar, "designed mainly to be a photographic record and celebration of the churches", is no longer available at March 2006 The Harleian Society volume 1: Howard, JJ, and Armytage, GJ (eds) (1869) The Visitation of London in the Year 1568 is available from Google books.

The roots of London’s Chinese community lie much further east than Soho, in Limehouse Causeway – a long street that was the heart of the original Chinatown. As Chinese sailors settled in the area in the 1880s, a small but significant community sprang up, one which was frequently and inaccurately, represented – and unfairly muddied – in popular culture of the time, from Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot stories to George Formby’s Limehouse-set song ‘Chinese Laundry Blues’. Most residents relocated to Soho in the 1950s, after WWII bombings badly damaged Limehouse. The only remaining clues about the area’s past are a tin dragon sculpture on Mandarin Street and a few other street names. This list of demolished buildings and structures in London includes buildings, structures and urban scenes of particular architectural and historical interest, scenic buildings which are preserved in old photographs, prints and paintings, but which have been demolished or were destroyed by bombing in World War II. Only a small number of the most notable buildings are listed out of the many thousands which have been demolished. A wonderful book for anyone interested in the history of London, photography, a fantastic reference book on buildings and its people, fashions of the times. Above all this book is for anyone who has fond memories of Lost London.

This book is largely a collection of quite superb photographs of streets, houses, shops, pubs, churches, etc that no longer exist. It documents some dreadful acts of vandalism, from the casual destruction of early modern timber framed houses to the Adam brothers’ Adelphi Buildings. Over the years London has had many prisons and similar institutions. There were Compters to hold debtors both within the City and outside it, in Southwark and Middlesex. At various times there were prisons at Ludgate, Newgate, the Fleet, Temple Bar, and Bridewell, and there were medieval prisons at St Martin Le Grand, and Tun upon Cornhill. One of the best aspects of this film was just how witty it was. Harrelson, during the Q&A, expressed his love for comedy and making audiences laugh, but confessed, “…it’s not exactly as it happened. There were no laughs on the night, not even one spec…”. He clarified that pretty much everything that happened that night is in this film, but a few things that did not happen were added for comedic effect.