Lost London 1870-1945

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Londoners are now served by huge, city-within-a-city hospital complexes, but until 1948 they were treated instead by a multitude of institutions, each with their own peculiarities and funding arrangements. In the pre-NHS era, healthcare was localised, specialised and particular to place. Thousands of children were apprenticed to masters in London. Cliff Webb has compiled indexes to the records for the Society of Genealogists, and an online version is available on FindMyPast. County Sources at the Society of Genealogists - The City of London and Middlesex", ed. Neville Taylor, 2002, Magnificent. In the year of 2012, the Year of London, this is simply a must-have book to buy, keep, and treasure. It's a wonderful collection of photographs of buildings long since disappeared from that city which never dies. Heartbreaking, yes, but also a way to see how London has evolved, through good and/or bad. Bedlam (Liverpool Street): St Bethlehem's Hospital, or Bedlam as it was commonly called, was in medieval times located near what is now Liverpool Street station. It survived the Great Fire, but was nevertheless rebuilt in nearby Moorfields in the 1670s. That building, too, is long gone. The hospital moved once again in 1810 to what is now the Imperial War Museum.

Q: [Turning to Lost in London, ] I suppose there may be a way you hoped the audience perceived the film in terms of it being live. Maybe you thought it would make them more involved in the story or add a bit of danger given the live aspect. I wonder how you envision the audience experience after the fact, now that they are watching it while it’s no longer being broadcast live. The Astoft collection of buildings of England has photographs by Allan Soedring of a number of churches and other buildings Diorama (Regent's Park): The Diorama building still stands (look at the roofline while passing along Park Square East and you'll see the name still painted onto the Nash Terrace), but its contents are lost. Like the nearby London Colosseum (see below), it housed impressively huge paintings, which would be cleverly illuminated for a paying audience who sat in a rotating auditorium. It opened in 1823 and closed in 1851.For general historical bibliography the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) produced by the Inistitute for Historical Research and the Royal Historical Society, is available via major research libraries. GENDOCS lists for London (archived copy) cover census, churches, cemeteries, inns, probate, streets, lodging houses, institutions ... and much more.

On January 19 th , Lost in London was broadcasted live to over 500 cinemas in the UK and US, making it first of its kind. Writing, directing, and starring in Lost in London , Woody Harrelson brings us a poignant story about one wild night in his life. The Oxford University Guild Business Society hosted the Oxford University screening of the film on May 19 th , which was followed by an engaging Q&A with Woody Harrelson. Holywell Street was set amongst the kind of narrow, twisting streets and dingy courts that could shelter the denizens of many a dubious trade. With its overhanging fronts it was old, squalid, cramp London from the Elizabethan age, just off the fashionable Strand which was far more the bustling metropolis of a modern world city desired by the authorities. By 1834 there were an estimated 57 porn shops in Holywell Street selling novels, prints, etchings, catalogues on prostitute services, guides for Victorian homosexuals and flagellation connoisseurs. It was hardly a hidden world. The Victorian shops would have retained the raucous nature and prominent display of a medieval market rather than that of an invisible underworld. A letter to The Times in 1846 complains of the windows in the street which “display books and pictures of the most disgusting and obscene character, and which are alike loathsome to the eye and offensive to the morals of any person of well-regulated mind”. Since it was created in 1933, the items lost on the transport network have changed as fashions and technology have evolved. Where once umbrellas and bowler hats filled shelves, now the latest phones, e-cigarettes and designer handbags can be found. Wallets and bags are now among the most common products returned to customers, with the TfL returning more than 4,400 wallets and 3,500 bags between 2020 and 2021. Mobile phones are another popular lost item with more than 1,300 returned to customers during the last financial year.The Lost Property Office recovers more than 200,000 items each year and is now moving from its previous temporary location at Pelham Street in South Kensington to a new location in West Ham. A must-watch for Woody fans and a nice novelty feature in conception and delivery, Lost in London is let down by mid-tier material and a mostly unengaging plot. AIM25 - Archives in London and the M25 Area - "is a major project to provide electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over fifty higher education institutions and learned societies within the greater London area."