Lost London 1870-1945

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And forgotten or overlooked heroes like the Tradescants, great voyaging horticulturalists of the 17th century, responsible for so much of London’s flora and buried in literally the first place I intend to go when the cafes reopen.

With each discarded book, we thought of the imagination, magic, and knowledge lost forever to a garbage heap and we endeavored to find a better way.The amount of superb architecture that has been lost to the deadly combination of rapacious developers, d**k swinging architects and vainglorious local politicians is appalling. How could it be when character and plot are slaves to the concept, when all we have is the frame of a single camera? and have been lovingly arranged and captioned by Davies into this tremendous picture book for London architecture aficionados. We find a photo hanging on a wall from 1895, the great frozen River Thames, were amazed to hear frost fairs were held on the ice. In the areas where the natives were tolerant or even friendly, the camera has captured solemn and curious groups of Victorian and Edwardian Londoners, mostly all hatted, but many of them not shoed.

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Lost London 1870-1945 is a wonderful collection of black and white photos, and unique, this collection shows Elizabethan, Georgian and Victorian London before the major 20th century redevelopments. Before replacing your pass it may be worth checking at a tube station to ensure that there is a fault on the pass. The insight these photos give into what London was like during the war is truly eye-opening and horrifying. There are pictures of beautiful buildings that were destroyed in air raids or wilfully demolished because they can.