The Lost London Street Index - an index of over 3500 streets that have undergone a name change or have disappeared altogether over the last 200 years (via Internet Archive). Now a street in London’s lost history, Holywell Street was a narrow alleyway once notorious for radical politics and erotica… The discount can be added to a standard Oyster card or Visitor Oyster card by a member of staff at:

Aside from such essentially national institutions as The National Archives, the British Library, the Society of Genealogists, the Institute for Historical Research, and the Principal Probate Registry, London has many specialised major libraries and archives, such as: The COLLAGE database (Corporation of London Libraries and Guildhall Art Gallery image database) has very many images related to the churches of the City of London the wider London area. Simply search on the church name or the place-name plus 'church' to find relevant images. Largely rebuilt 1756–1759; demolished with other buildings in Whitehall Gardens to make way for the new MOD building. [16] The real heartbreak comes with the bombing of WWII, where many of Christopher Wren's churches were destroyed. In some cases, they could have been repaired, but by this time, London had been surpassed by New York City, and the post-war Labour scuzzlebutts could only concentrate on creating ugly public housing units. Goodbye masterpieces. These are by no means the only significant buildings demolished in the 21st century. Please nominate your own choices in the comments.The erotica trade, looking for new alleyways to thrive, started eyeing up the possibilities in Charing Cross Road and Soho. A new era was about to begin. Rebuilt by Robert Adam and taken over by the Amicable Society after the serjeants moved to Chancery Lane in 1730. Destroyed by bombing. [18] Ancestry have indexed and placed on line images of the Admission Papers for Freemen of the City of London, 1681-1925. These are from the records of the City itself, but include reference to the livery company of the admitted person. They cover all types of admission, but there are some gaps (mostly in the 1680s and 1770s-1780s). Full information is given in a leaflet from LMA. The 1723 Oaths of Allegiance for the City of London have been transcribed by Dr Alex Craven and are available from the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities. 'Every person' was required to take this oath or else forfeit their estates. The list is unusual in including many women, and details such as residence, occupation and marital status,

A must read for anyone with an interest in London and the UKs industrial/urban cultural inheritance which is scandalously and often deceitfully played down (or as shown here, wantonly destroyed) in favour of a bucolic English utopia that almost certainly never existed.If you don't live in London and you're visiting with children who don't have an 11-15 Zip Oyster photocard, they can get discounted travel for up to 14 days with the Young Visitor discount. London Merchants of 1677. She says "The publication in 1677 of 'A collection of the names of the merchants living in and around London' for Sam. Lee and Dan. Major was possibly the first printed commercial directory of London." - the list is from this and other sources.