Comments on: Vanishing London

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:07:09 +0000

An amazing collection of so many beautiful and very interesting buildings. Saddened to see such history disappear.

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:09:08 +0000

Thank you GA for sharing another fascinating peep at a London lost to us and without these great photos, some sights we wouldn’t have seen at all.

By: Derek Bailey

Derek Bailey — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:44:52 +0000

We lived at 41 Umberston St. in Stepney in the mid-late 1940’s and I well remember the shock when I visited there in summer 1966. The south half of the street, where we lived, had just vanished. So much for childhood memories…..

Derek
(Colorado, USA now)

By: Ros

Ros — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:17:57 +0000

These always repay looking at in depth and give an intense and wonderful flavour of what was lost in such a range of buildings, from grand to humble. I love the smithy portrayed in the penultimate picture, and would like to know whether it can definitely be identified as Bell Street NW1. The northward extension of the original Bakerloo Line (Baker Street to Waterloo) did go to Paddington via Marylebone and Edgware Road, and soon after to Queens Park where it linked up with the main line to Watford. But I don’t think the line ever went to Edgware or that there was ever a Baker St to Edgware line.

By: paul loften

paul loften — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:27:51 +0000

A veritable treasure chest that you have unlocked for us. Thank you and the Bishopsgate Institute and not forgetting all the past members of the LT I for the work in preserving this other London which we would never know of otherwise.

By: Boudica Redd

Boudica Redd — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:42:47 +0000

Great pics and story even thou these great buildings have sadly gone from ye streets of older lunden you will always have a record of once was and you’re wonderful story’s capitulate a by gone tyme

By: Bernie

Bernie — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:14:24 +0000

Interesting, as ever, to see what went before and to realise how, as a youngster, one gave little or no thought to it.

As a student, in 1952, I used to walk down Fetter Lane on my way to Birkbeck College. While one could not avoid acknowledging bomb damage I do not recall ever thinking about the long history of former constructions there, and the same is true more generally: we live in the times we inhabit.

By: DAVID WHITTAKER

DAVID WHITTAKER — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:14:23 +0000

WONDERFUL. Thank You.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:50:43 +0000

Such a shame these buildings are gone. Collingwood Street looks like part of a pretty rural village.

By: Teresa Chatterton

Teresa Chatterton — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 07:56:23 +0000

Thank you for your ever-fascinating posts and your wonderful writing which I look forward to every day. I wonder if you know – or anyone else knows – the date that Howard Buildings in Deal Street was demolished? I can find much interesting information about its construction and use, also pictures and see that it was ‘Listed’ in 1973 but can find nothing about its removal. My husband has an ancestor (a tailor) who lived there in the 1890s and visited the street to find the area partly redeveloped although old cottages remain. We would be glad to hear if anyone knows about what happened to Howard Buildings.