C19 London – SLIDE LIST

1.  Map of London 1832

2.  Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, reb for the Duke of Wellington 1828

3.  The Waterloo Gallery at Apsley House, with the Duke’s picture collection

4.  The Houses of Parliament (Charles Barry 1840-60)

5.  St James’s Park as re-landscaped by Nash, with the Foreign Office in the distance

6.  Trafalgar Square with the National Gallery (1830s)

7.  Regent Street, the Quadrant in its original form (c.1820)

8.  Cumberland Terrace (John Nash, 1820s), from Regents Park

9.  An air view of South Kensington. Hyde Park is at the top, the Albert Hall and Imperial 
    College (originally the Imperial Institute) in the middle, and the Natural History Museum in the foreground.

10. Smithfield Market c. 1850. St Paul’s Cathedral is in the background, with St Bartholomew’s Hospital
    (London’s oldest hospital) in front of it.

11. The interior of Covent Garden Market (1820s: roof later)

12. A plan of New Oxford Street showing slum property to be demolished

13. New Oxford Street (1840s)

14. A block of apartments for the ‘respectable’ working class built by the Peabody Trust in the 1870s.
   This is the kind of housing that was built in the later C19 to replace slum property demolished for street or railway improvements
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15. The heart of the City of London, looking west from the Royal Exchange. The building on the left is the Mansion House (the Lord Mayor’s official residence), and the office block beyond, at the corner of Cheapside, was built in the 1870s

16. The National Provincial Bank HQ in Bishosgate in the City
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17. A map of the main railway lines of central London in the late C19

18. King’s Cross Station (1851)

19. The gasholders next to St Pancras station

20. The Victoria Embankment under construction in the 1860s. Under the roadway is the Northern Outfall Sewer and the Circle Line of the Underground railway; anove is Charing Cross railway station.

21. St Katherine’s Dock, built in the 1820s.

22. Warehouses in Wapping High Street in the East End

23. Providence Place, Stepney, c.1909: a typical East end ‘court’

24. York Square, Stepney (1823-5): superior artisan housing

25. The plan of Victoria Park in the East End (James Pennethorne, 1840s)

26. Advert for a terraced house at Plaistow c.1890s, typical of many in the outer working-class suburbs

27. A typical elementary school built by the London School Board in the 1870s

28. Keats House at Hampstead (1815-16)|

29. Park Village East and the Regents Canal in 1828, by John Nash

30. ‘Over London by Rail’ from Dore’s London: a Pilgrimage

31. Architect’s drawing of two pairs of semi-detached houses on the Eton College estate at Chalk Farm (1828)

32. A street in Bedford Park, begun 1875

33. York Street, Twickenham: a typical suburban shopping street of the 1890s