Businesses In Bishopsgate, 1892
October 15, 2025
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A Bishopsgate Trade Directory of one hundred and twenty years ago was recently discovered in the archive at the Bishopsgate Institute and the adverts for all the specialist small trades that once gathered there portray a very different kind of commerce to the faceless corporate financial industries in their gleaming blocks which dominate this street today.
St Botolph’s Church & White Hart Tavern, Bishopsgate
Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
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These are so beautifully designed, the typography and choice of words so evocative of the era and haunting too of busineses gone by. Scrolling through these has proved to be a wonderful way to start the day.
Oh I love these. I could do with some “Blair’s Gout and Rheumatic pills” right now!
Imagine being a printer back then, what a lot of fonts!
How did the shift from those small specialist trades to today’s corporate financial centers change the daily life and character of the Bishopsgate area?