The Gentle Author’s Lantern Shows
The publication of my Album gives me a wonderful excuse to stage live presentations of some of the photos of London I love the most and, announcing the first shows today, gives me the opportunity to publish more unseen glass slides from the hundred year-old collection of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society at the Bishopsgate Institute – like this enigmatic picture of an unidentified street plastered with bills.
MY MAGIC LANTERN SHOW
Monday 28th October 7pm at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green Rd, E1
I will be showing and talking about my favourite pictures of London, both past & present.
Free admission but tickets must be reserved by emailing info@bricklanebookshop.co.uk
A NIGHT IN OLD LONDON
Thursday 31st October 6:30pm at Westminster Arts Library, Leicester Sq, WC2
I will be showing the lantern slides of London 100 years ago from the collection of the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society with live piano accompaniment by David Power, the eighty-six-year-old Showman, and Henrietta Keeper, thirty-year-veteran of Tate & Lyle Concert Parties, will be singing the songs of old London.
Presented by Salon for the City and sponsored by Hendricks Gin
Tickets £7 & £4 available from We Go Tickets
If you are a bookseller in London and you would like me to come and do a magic lantern show in your shop before Christmas please email me spitalfieldslife@gmail.com. If you are a retailer and you would like to sell copies of The Gentle Author’s London Album please email bridgetlj@faber.co.uk who deals with trade orders.
Holborn Bars
Women shelling peas at Covent Garden Market
Graffitied doorway at Westminster School
The Monument
Leicester Sq
The throne of England, Westminster Abbey
In Fleet St
St George St, Hanover Sq
In Pump Court, Middle Temple
Chopping block & executioner’s mask at the Tower of London
Raven at the Tower of London
Rays of sunlight in St Bartholomew-the-Great
Unknown street with billboards
At the back of St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield
Delivering newsprint to the News of the World and Boys Own Paper off Fleet St
Watch House at Newgate
Farringdon Rd
Funeral effigy of Nelson in Westminster Abbey
In Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Westminster Abbey
Paddington Station
St Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate
St Lukes, Old St, on a foggy day
Lantern slides courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
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The first picture of an unidentified street could possibly be the beginning of a bridge.Notice how it gently slopes upwards and in the backdrop there are no other buildings suggesting maybe the river? It’s just a guess. I wonder if we’ll ever know?
Wonderful scenes of the past showing how in some pictures we relied on horse power.
Looking at places before I was born I am hopeful that as time moves on we shall be able to see the future and what will our children face.
I love these old photographs of London and what always strikes me, is the space – there seems to have been so much more space. The throne is also absolutely brilliant, so un-pompous.
I always find these Bishopsgate Institute slides enthralling. More please!
Thanks so much for sharing these old photographs, the buildings are absolutely wonderful.
The Throne always amazes me, I have read that without the stone block underneath (clearly shown here) it would not be possible for a King or Queen to be crowned. I would love to find out more about this odd fact.