Old Houses in Holborn, London, England, circa 1878. Photography by J. Bool
Publication: Photographs of Canonbury Tower, Barnard's Inn, Old Houses in Aldersgate Street, Christ's Hospital and The Churchyard of St Lawrence Pountney, By Henry Dixon Printed in Permanent Pigments From His Own Negatives First Issued in 1879, The Society For Photographing Relics of Old London, pl 29 Werner. Alex and Williams, Tony, Dickens's Victorian London, Museum of London, London, 2011, pg 239 Bush, Old London Photographed by Henry Dixon and A. & J. Bool, Academy Editions, London, 1975, pl 29 Other Collections: National Gallery of Canada Notes: from the a series of photographs made by Henry Dixon and A. and J. Bool between 1875 and 1886 for the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London. ""Behind the most ancient part of Holborn," says Dickens, "where certain gabled houses, some centuries of age, still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry." This is in truth one of the most picturesque groups of Old London houses. They are also among the oldest, dating apparently from the time of James I., or perhaps earlier, for Stow, writing in 1598 of Staple Inn, says: "The same of late is for a great part thereof fair built and not a little augmented" () The obelisk, topped by a lamp, marks the City boundary. Just here, opposite to Gray's Inn Lane, stood till a few years back, Middle Row, narrowing the thoroughfare and blocking the traffic. This was the most famous and obvious example in London - a few are still left, Holywell Street being perhaps one - of "Middle Rows", encroachments on the highway where this was originally sufficiently broad to allow of the erection of temporary structures, which in time gave place to permament buildings." The above description, by Alfred Marks, was taken from the letterpress which accompanies the photographs. At the time of the photograph, Holborn extended from Holborn Viaduct to Holborn Bars and High Holborn from the Bars to Drury Lane
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Location: London, England, United Kingdom
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