Sujet

Old House, Fore Street, c1884. Creator: Henry Dixon & Son.

Légende

Old House, Fore Street, c1884. Bianchi's shop on the corner of Milton Street, City of London. 'This house, of a type very rare in London - made rarer still by the demolition of this subject - dates probably from before the Great Fire...This house stood at the corner of Milton Street, a new name given some forty years ago to Grub Street, famous - or infamous in the annals of literature. The Street has long borne its old name. We find it recorded in 1320, that Richard le Cordewanere, of Grascherch, and his fellows, took from "William de Grobbelane" three pairs of false "shoes"; and the name occurs in the City records even earlier than this (Riley's Memorials, p.136).' Description by Alfred Marks. This area was badly bombed in World War II, Fore Street being the site of the first bomb to fall on the City of London. Milton Street no longer intersects Fore Street and much of the area now houses the Barbican complex. Signs advertise sherbet, ices, new milk, and lemonade.

Date

1884

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A45_285

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53.7Mo (8.3Mo) / 32.0cm x 42.0cm / 3783 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building London England food wood timber architecture shopping shop shops society British photography wooden lumber location century city of london Britain ice cream concept United Kingdom B&W demolition demolished demolishing 17th century clapboard Historic building 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century seventeenth century corner shop Fore Street Milton Street 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