Comments on: A Model Of London, 1840

By: Tamblyn Tonkin

Tamblyn Tonkin — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 20:16:27 +0000

Msg for Andrew. Contact me pls. I’m sure you’ll recognise the name.

By: Nathan Carroll

Nathan Carroll — Sun, 22 May 2016 15:36:48 +0000

As someone who has recently moved away from East London, I am always interested to hear about new projects and who better a model maker then Dave Armitage. Dave Taught me some 15 years ago and his attention to detail and skills always stood out.

By: Norman Conquest Esq.

Norman Conquest Esq. — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:29:50 +0000

I cannot help but wonder if a model of London was constructed in 1840, of a London 180 years before that time. If so, and assuming it survived the Great Fire 6 years later, it will still exist inside one of the larger buildings of the 2020 model being built today. Likewise, today’s model will be housed inside a building on the Greenwich Maritime Museum site in the 2200 model and so on into the infinite future…….

By: MR J. SHOP

MR J. SHOP — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:35:57 +0000

BRILLIANT, a word used too often? The result being that it has a diluting effect? Yes definitely, although in the case of this painstaking project it would seem to be thoroughly justified. Could this be the same Andrew Byrne whose equally well researched book BEDFORD SQUARE I have owned for 30 years? I suspect so. Keep up the good work chaps, looking forward to viewing the finished thing……

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 18:01:50 +0000

How amazing is this! I hope the exhibition includes the maps, diagrams, photos etc that will have helped to establish the finished model. What an amazing sense of scale. Good luck guys, wish I could help, but clueless at model making. I Will definitely be at the exhibition though.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:33:58 +0000

Fascinating. And what a labour. I’m looking forward to seeing, for very different reasons The Circus/The Crescent behind Minories and also Queenhithe, all of which have been vandalised comprehensively by developers, fire, London Underground the Luftwaffe and planners. In the case of The Circus is is no more and as for The Circus the tiny bit that was left is now laughably a Conservation Area. That’s a story to be told.

By: pauline taylor

pauline taylor — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 12:25:32 +0000

Have they set themselves limits as to exactly how much detail will be included? It sounds like a wonderful idea, and an enjoyable project, but London was a living, breathing, very busy place so a static model will never capture the atmosphere. Think of all the objects that should ‘people’ the streets, the horses, waggons and so on. Sorry this sounds a bit negative, but it’s not meant to, it is a great project and I wish them well with it.

By: Mike Brown

Mike Brown — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:50:41 +0000

A truly wonderful project. I look forward to up-dates on progress.

By: elizabeth Campbell

elizabeth Campbell — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:23:24 +0000

How wonderful,wished I lived nearer if only to sweep up and make tea.I live in Cowes and a model of the old waterfront and docks would be a very interesting project,wonder how many more ideas this will start. how devestating for Robert’s shed and model to burn down,we lost our Dunkirk Little Ship [originally a RN steam pinnace from WW1] in a big fire in Cowes recently ,my ex husband rescued the rudder from the pile of ash,all that remained of such a historic boat.

By: Gilbert O'Brien

Gilbert O'Brien — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:13:40 +0000

Your caption on the last photo, Torrington Square, may be incorrect — it looks like the next square east, Woburn Square, with the demolished Christ Church in the middle of the terrace on the east side. Footnote for anyone interested in local history: when the destruction of Woburn Square was proposed the grafitto on the hoardings at the top of the square was ‘Woburn Square is poetry.’