Around Old Billingsgate
I am giving my last lecture about the astonishing East End photography of David Hoffman this Sunday 8th December at 2:45pm as the finale of the Bloomsbury Jamboree at the Art Workers’ Guild.
In the week after the City of London Corporation voted to close Smithfield and Billingsgate Markets for good, I present these evocative colour photos from the sixties.
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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Why was the Coal Exchange pulled down? Could it not have been remodelled (as needed) and reused?
Carved mice on a building in Eastcheap? one could pass-by most every day of the week and never catch sight of it to be aware it’s existence and to then be intrigued to know the ‘Who? Why? What? Where? When?’ of it all.
Sign of a Waterman, now in Museum of London Original Sign 1668? worthy a blog post all by itself highlighting similar signs throughout the ages.
Derelict site next to Cannon St Station? the dullest of dawns sets this off nicely.
Old Blackfriars Station, The Blackfriar pub, Sculptures upon the Blackfriar? draws us back to the 1960’s teens wanting more.
A truly magnificent set of intriguing photographs by a photographer yet to be identified. Thank-you.
I feel another time traveling episode coming on, I maybe some time.
Lush Technicolor. Thanks.