{"id":585030,"date":"2025-11-21T16:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/585030\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:19:51","slug":"fascinating-historical-photographs-show-the-lost-london-of-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/585030\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Historical Photographs Show The \u2018Lost\u2019 London of 100 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

London has been through some serious change in its lifetime. Founded by the Romans in 43 AD, the capital\u2019s 2,000 year history has seen the city go through plagues, fires, industrialisation, the Blitz, and the tech boom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now a new photo book has revealed London\u2019s lost and secret histories.\u00a0To be published\u00a0on November 23,\u00a0Panoramas of Lost London:\u00a0Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change\u00a01870-1945, features more than 300 black and white photos, 60 of which have never been seen before, showing London in the 19th and 20th centuries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"St
\nPhotograph: Historic England ArchiveSt Paul\u2019s Cathedral, 1942 <\/p>\n

Panoramas of Lost London\u00a0depicts a city that Londoners of today may not recognise. It features photographs including 17th-century wooden weatherboard buildings, which were still common in early 1900s London; 18th-century cottages still inhabited in Elephant & Castle; the building of Tower Bridge in 1883; and Covent Garden in 1925, when it was still a\u00a0busy\u00a0fruit and flower market.<\/p>\n

\"6-7
\nPhotograph: Historic England Archive6-7 Nile Street, Woolwich, c. 1900 <\/p>\n

The collection also shows how everyday Londoners lived, revealing the inside of houses of Mare Street, and shoppers on Oxford Street. It includes portraits of Victorian and Edwardian Londoners: blacksmiths, butchers, bookmakers, shopkeepers, seamstresses, pharmacists, chimney sweeps, mothers and their children.<\/p>\n

\"Mare
\nPhotograph: Historic England ArchiveMare Street, Hackney, 1904 <\/p>\n

The photos span a tumultuous time full of change in the capital: from the horse-drawn Victorian and Edwardian city with its East End slums, through the inter-war years, to the\u00a0streets devastated by the Blitz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Columbia
\nPhotograph: Historic EnglandColumbia Gallery Shoreditch, 1946 <\/p>\n

The book contains a foreword by art historian Dan Cruikshank. He said: \u2018Few photographs are more powerfully evocative than those of lost buildings of great cities. The photographs in Panoramas of Lost London have astonishing emotional power and appeal.<\/p>\n

\u2018Even if the actual buildings cannot be brought back to life, this evocative and haunting book is the next best thing. Like its many photographs, it is pervaded by an intangible magic.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Euston
\nPhotograph: Historic England Archive <\/p>\n

\"Lambeth
\nPhotograph: Historic England ArchiveLambeth suspension bridge, c. 1865 <\/p>\n

\"Knightsbridge,
\nPhotograph: Historic England Archive <\/p>\n

\"Panoramas
\nImage: Historic England <\/p>\n

Panoramas of Lost London is published in hardback on 23rd of November. Available from all good bookshops at \u00a340 \u2013 get it while stocks last.\u00a0Waterstones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Stay in the loop: sign up for our\u00a0<\/strong>free Time Out London newsletter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London has been through some serious change in its lifetime. Founded by the Romans in 43 AD, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[2606,748,13721,393,4884,257,13722,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-585030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-categories-art","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-news-art","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115588605253430725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}