"London has been through some serious change in its lifetime. Founded by the Romans in 43 AD, the capital's 2,000 year history has seen the city go through plagues, fires, industrialisation, the Blitz, and the tech boom. Now a new photo book has revealed London's lost and secret histories. To be published on November 23, Panoramas of Lost London: Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change 1870-1945, features more than 300 black and white photos, 60 of which have never been seen before, showing London in the 19th and 20th centuries."
"The book contains a foreword by art historian Dan Cruikshank. He said: 'Few 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. 'Even 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.'"
More than 300 black-and-white photographs, including 60 previously unseen images, document London in the 19th and 20th centuries. Images show 17th-century wooden weatherboard buildings still present in the early 1900s, 18th-century cottages in Elephant & Castle, the construction of Tower Bridge in 1883, and Covent Garden operating as a fruit and flower market in 1925. Interior street scenes reveal Mare Street homes and Oxford Street shoppers. Portraits portray Victorian and Edwardian workers and families, including blacksmiths, butchers, bookmakers, shopkeepers, seamstresses, pharmacists, chimney sweeps, mothers and their children. The images trace social and architectural transformation from a horse-drawn city and East End slums through the inter-war years to the Blitz.
Read at Time Out London
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