Around Billingsgate
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Fish Porters at Number One Snack Bar next to St Magnus the Martyr
These intriguing photographs are selected from a cache of transparencies of unknown origin acquired by the Bishopsgate Institute. We believe they date from the nineteen-sixties but the photographer is unidentified. Can anyone tell us more?
Looking west along Lower Thames St and Monument St
Sign outside St Mary-At-Hill
Pushing barrows of ice up Lovat Lane
Passage next to St Mary-At-Hill
Carved mice on a building in Eastcheap
Old shop in Eastcheap
Billingsgate Market cat
Inside the fish market designed by Horace Jones
Old staircase near Billingsgate
The Coal Exchange, built 1847 demolished 1962
Part of London Bridge crossing Lower Thames St, now removed
The Old Wine Shades, Martin Lane
Sign of a Waterman, now in Museum of London
In All Hallows Lane
Derelict site next to Cannon St Station
Looking towards Bankside Power Station by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, now Tate Modern
Old Blackfriars Station
The Blackfriar pub
Sculptures upon the Blackfriar
Sunrise over Tower Bridge
Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
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What a pity some of these buidings and sites no longer exist.
GA, we just did a bit of snooping and found out that the Blackfriar Pub was in danger of being demolished in the 1960s, but was saved. Looking at photos of the current exterior and interior (online), we can’t wait to visit. Let’s meet up, and we’re treating.
Hip hip hooray!
Criminal that a building like the old Coal Exchange was demolished! Great photos.
I am sure the Billingsgate moggy had plenty of “fishees on little dishees”.
Vibrant and lovely.
Many of them reminiscent of the great Charles Cushman.
Thanks for showing.
My Great Grandad was in Bilingsgate Fish Porter .
Richard Gardner
They called him ‘Fishy Dick’.
He emigrated to North Ontario for a better life .