Sujet

The Golden Axe, St. Mary Axe, c1883. Creator: Henry Dixon & Son.

Légende

The Golden Axe, St. Mary Axe, c1883. Pub advertising Dunville's Old Irish Whisky. 'This overhanging gabled house, of a kind fast becoming very rare in London, was destroyed in the course of the last year.' Description by Alfred Marks. St Mary Axe is a street running from Lime Street into Camomile Street in the City of London. According to Thornbury, the name 'St Mary Axe' came from a shop which had a sign of an axe, though the church of St Mary no longer exists. Today St Mary Axe is known as the site of 30 St Mary Axe, nicknamed The Gherkin, designed by Sir Norman Foster R.A.

Date

1883

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A45_279

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

55.4Mo (7.4Mo) / 33.0cm x 42.0cm / 3903 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building London England drink architecture pub society British alcohol public house photography inn location century city of london Britain corner whiskey concept whisky United Kingdom B&W demolition demolished tavern liquor demolishing Historic building 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Bevis Marks TGN outside street photograph Henry Alfred Dixon Marks Henry Dixon & Son Dixon Henry & Son carbon print 19th-century Royal Academy of Arts Society for Photographing Relics of Old London Henry Dixon Alfred Marks