The exhibition comes at a time of crisis for LGBT venues. Work led by Campkin at University College London’s Urban Laboratory has shown that nightlife, in particular, has been hit hard. From 2006 to 2017, the number of LGBT clubs, bars and performance spaces in London dropped dramatically, from 121 to 51. The phenomenon defies easy explanation, but changing habits and the city’s seemingly unstoppable economic growth play a part. “Some of the media narratives were around technology and Gaydar, Grindr, how that’s changed everything,” says Campkin. “That didn’t really come up so much in the research we did … We noticed that, in a lot of the cases, there was a link to some kind of larger-scale development, or small-scale luxury residential development.” The Shard is well known as the tallest building in London. It replaced Southwark Towers, which was the tallest skyscraper (jointly with Drapers Gardens) ever to be demolished in London. Nobody missed it. 20 Fenchurch Street (2008) 20 Fenchurch Street old (left) and new (right). Old pic by Artybrad under Creative Commons licence. Right pic by M@. Harben's Dictionary of London - the text of a gazetteer for the City of London - provided by British History Online These are by no means the only significant buildings demolished in the 21st century. Please nominate your own choices in the comments.

The London Topographical Society has a series of publications of early maps of London. Their many publications include: The A to Z of Victorian London, with notes by Ralph Hyde, 1987 It stayed with me for years as unexplained, just one of the many leftover spaces strewn around London, but perhaps also a problem to be solved.Thousands of children were apprenticed to masters in London. Cliff Webb has compiled indexes to the records for the Society of Genealogists, and an online version is available on FindMyPast. Bolton P (ed.) (1998) The alien communities of London in the fifteenth century: the subsidy rolls of 1440 & 1483-4. Stamford: Richard III & Yorkist History Trust. ('Alien' ws the term for a foreigner.) Croatian Actress Zrinka Cvitešić With Woody Harrelson in Upcoming Live Movie". Total Croatia News . Retrieved 14 January 2017.

There are several surveys which give descriptions of the living conditions of Londoners in the 19th century: Make sure you touch in at the start of your journey and touch out at the end on yellow card readers. You only need to touch in on buses and trams. Find out more about touching in and out. This building at nos. 35–38, once known as Thanet House, was built by Inigo Jones. It later became a tavern, then a lying-in hospital, then a dispensary. [19] By 1834 there were an estimated 57 porn shops in Holywell Street selling novels, prints, etchings, catalogues on prostitute services, guides for Victorian homosexuals and flagellation connoisseurs. It was hardly a hidden world. The Victorian shops would have retained the raucous nature and prominent display of a medieval market rather than that of an invisible underworld. A letter to The Times in 1846 complains of the windows in the street which “display books and pictures of the most disgusting and obscene character, and which are alike loathsome to the eye and offensive to the morals of any person of well-regulated mind”. Simple economics muscles in. The loss of so very many buildings because of the necessity of new road planning can be explained and understood as motor vehicles (cheaper) replaced horse-drawn conveyances. Enemy action in both the Great War and the Second World saw off an appreciable number of other buildings, resulting in the necessity for new plans. Renovation and adaptation is invariably cheaper than new-build; though new materials used are so frequently less substantial than the old. Alas wages can be higher than what will realistically grow employment. Is this economic insanity? Architects and designers wanted commissions and recognition. They got it.From its foundation in 1741 the Foundling Hospital rescued abaondoned babies, but from the 1760s it extended its remit to accommodate the children of unmarried mothers who made written petition for the child to be accepted. The surviving applications record details of the lives of the mothers, which can include how they became pregnant and of their employment. About two-thirds of applications in the 19th century were from women in domestic service. The type of information available is detailed in an article by Pamela Horn in Genealogists' Magazine vol. 29, no. 8, pp.293-297 (December 2008). The title explains precisely what this book is. The historian Philip Davies has done a lot of archival research and he's compiled an extensive collection of photos of buildings which had existed in London from 1870 through 1945 which have since been demolished. Philip Davies has written explanations of the histories of the buildings which are featured in this book, including the reasons that some of these buildings were demolished. A follow up edition for the 50s, 60s and 70s would be interesting showing the buildings of the 1870s-1945, and especially the areas devasted by the Blitz and V-weapons, that were in turn replaced by ones designed with concrete and steel that today look dirty, tired, oppressive and outdated. Presenter: Kirsty Lang (19 January 2017). "Front Row: Urban myths, Author Michael Chabon, The Snow Maiden opera, Presidents on film". Front Row. 13:00 minutes in. BBC. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 26 January 2017. The changes brought about by the loss of these buildings probably did bring better conditions to many, especially as poverty in areas of London was dreadful - but other larger municipal buildings also went which today would be unthinkable.

London & Middlesex: a genealogical bibliography", by Stuart Raymond, vol.1: Genealogical Sources, vol.2. Family Histories & Pedigrees, (2nd edn 1997) also "Londoners' Occupations: A Genealogical Guide" (2nd edn 2001), published jointly with Stuart Raymond. I can think of three reasons why a change might not be carried forward:- a typo or mistake, it was reversed or revised (perhaps after protests by residents - many of these alterations were not popular - plus ça change), or there was a further change/re-building later. Gothic library of 1827–1828 by Sir Robert Smirke and adjoining hall of 1868 by Sidney Smirke; destroyed by bombs.

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The Western Charitable Foundation is an independent Jewish Orthodox burial society has a graves database covering its cemeteries at Edmonton, Cheshunt, Streatham and Fulham, whcih is searchable by surname, and gives full name, cemetery, plot number and date of burial. 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. Grade II listed building that was demolished without permission by a property developed, prompting the council to demand its rebuild.

The largest palace in Europe, residence of English monarchs from 1530 to 1698. The entire palace except for the Banqueting House and the Holbein Gate was destroyed by fire. The Holbein Gate was then demolished in 1759.The # symbol indicates that it does not appear in later editions of the LCC books ( see Notes below). The exact year is shown in the eBook version. pretty great set of photos of London that's been demolished. good selection with a lot of ordinary streets and houses rather than just big set pieces. only real quibble I have is that it'd have been nice to have maps or more indication of where these places were, especially as so many are photos of streets which are gone. 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. Residence of Henry VIII from 1515 to 1523; prison and hospital from 1556. Largely rebuilt after the Great Fire of London. Closed 1855. [2]