View of New Bridge Street and Ludgate Circus
View of New Bridge Street and Ludgate Circus
Record No
48678
Title
View of New Bridge Street and Ludgate Circus
Description
A view of New Bridge Street, City of London and Ludgate Circus, City of London with the two 'Waithman' and 'Wilkes' Obelisks (erected 1833 and 1775) with underground toilets, surrounded by gas lamps marking Ludgate Circus' central crossing. Much of the street contains nineteenth-century office buildings including Thomas Cook & Son excursion agents on the left of Ludgate Circus at 105-107 Fleet Street marked by the large 'Cooks Tours' sign. Holborn Viaduct can be seen in the distance crossing Farringdon Street. On the far right are the ornate iron railings (with a large railway sign attached) fronting Ludgate Hill Railway Station which opened on the London Chatham & Dover Railway in 1865, closing in 1948. Immediately behind the railings is the station's cab stand and glass roofed cabmen's shelter. On the corner of Little Bridge Street opposite the station at 39 New Bridge Street is John Ord Smith & Co. Chemists with its window awnings and 'Chemists' roof sign. In the distance can be seen the tower of John Tarring's High Victorian Gothic congregational Memorial Hall in Farringdon Street, built on the site of the Fleet Prison in 1875 and demolished in 1968. On the left of the photo at 10-11 New Bridge Street can be seen a 'To let sign' for 'upper floors'. This busy street scene includes Hanson Cabs and horse drawn delivery carts such as one delivering beer barrels and another for 'T & S. Smith'. A road workmens' wooden cabin and street gas lamps are also shown. A flag flies near the roof of the Albion Hotel, 2-3 New Bridge Street. Many of the Victorian buildings have now been replaced by late twentieth-century or early twenty first-century office blocks. The Albion Hotel now a bar called The Albion and 105-107 Fleet Street also survive.
Date of execution
1890
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_019_70_10352
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