1875 Collection (page 9)

Chelsea mansions
Views of old Chelsea mansions - Church Place, 1641. Gough House, 1760. Shrewsbury House, 1540. Beaufort House, 1628 & Winchester House. Date: 1875

Jennys Whim Bridge
Up to the start of the 19th century, Jennys Whim was a tavern or place of public entertainment, occupying a site now covered by St Georges Row near to Ebury Bridge, London Date: 1875

The Gun Tavern 1820
The popular Gun Tavern & Tea Gardens were removed in the middle of the 19th century, for improvements to Buckingham Gate. Date: 1875

The Albert Memorial, London, close to the Royal Albert Hall, was commissioned by Queen Victoria in memory of her husband Prince Albert, who died in 1861

Monster Tea Garden
A popular venue in the 18th century, situated at the corner of St Georges Row and Buckingham Palace Road, London. The name is probably a corruption of Monastery as it once was the site of the Convent

The Rose and Crown
View of the courtyard of the Rose & Crown inn, formerly the Oliver Cromwell inn, once the largest public house in Knightsbridge, London. Date: 1875

St Georges Hospital is a teaching hospital in Tooting, London. Founded in 1733, it is now one of the UKs largest teaching hospitals and one of the largest hospitals in Europe. Date: 1875

Tattersalls
View of the courtyard of old Tattersalls, the main auctioneer of race horses in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first premises occupied were near Hyde Park Corner

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as Plays on the Passions (three volumes, 1798-1812) and Fugitive Verses (1840). Date: 1875

London Views
Montage of London landmarks, 1870. Albert Memorial, Chelsea Embankment, Holland House and Kensington Palace. Date: 1875

Sir Richard Steele, pseud. Isaac Bickerstaff, (1672-1729) was an English essayist, dramatist, journalist, and politician, best known as principal author (with Joseph Addison)

William Henry Betty
William Henry West Betty (1791-1874), popular child actor of 19th century, known as the Young Roscius of Ampthill Square, Camden. Date: 1875

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a British historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher. Date: 1875

Golden Square
A view of Golden Square in 1750. Date: 1875

Rathbone Place
Map of Rathbone Place and neighbourhood. Date: 1875

Green Park rejoicings
The peace rejoicings in the Green Park on the occasion of the signing the treaty of Aachen in 1748. Date: 1875

Old Haymarket Theatre
The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720

Oliver Cromwells house
A view of a house in Westminster said to have been occupied by Oliver Cromwell. It was situated a little to the north of the Blue Boars Head Yard, by King Street. Date: 1875

The Five Houses
These -Five Houses - were built in, what was then, the rural Tuttle Fields (now Tothill Fields) as pest-houses for victims of the plague of 1665. Date: 1875

University College in Gower Street, London, opened in 1826. Date: 1875

Houses in Holborn
A row of old houses and shops in Holborn. 1830. Date: 1875

Black Bull Inn
The old Black Bull Inn in Grays Inn Lane with its galleried yard. Date: 1875

St Georges Bloomsbury
St Georges church, Bloomsbury, is a parish church in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden. It was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and consecrated in 1730. The church crypt houses the Museum of Comedy

Bedford House
A view of Bedford House in Bloomsbury in 1772, owned by Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765-1802). The house was demolished around 1800. Date: 1875

Meux Brewery
The Horse Shoe Brewery was an English brewery located in central London. It was established in 1764 and became a major producer of porter. The brewery was closed in 1921. Date: 1875

Encampment at Montagu House
The encampments set up in the gardens during the Gordon Riots in 1780. Over six days in June 1780, protests took place against the limited concessions of the first Catholic Relief Act

Field of Forty Footsteps
A view of The Field of the Forty Footsteps in 1830. It was was part of meadow lands at the back of the British Museum, once known as the Long Fields, then Southampton Fields

Tottenham Street Theatre
A view of Tottenham Street Theatre in 1830. it was opened in 1772 on Charlotte Street and Tottenham Street, London. It later became the Scala Theatre that was eventually demolished after a fire in

Oxford Market
A view of Oxford Market shortly before its demolition around 1880. A small arcaded building east of Great Portland Street, built in 1721. Date: 1875

Jewish synagogue
A view of the interior of the old Jewish synagogue in Great Portland Street, London, built around 1865 and destroyed in the Blitz in 1941. Date: 1875

Cavendish Square 1820
A view of Cavendish Square 1820 Date: 1875

Langham House
A view of Langham House, situated on the east side of Portland Place and home of Sir James Langham, an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1656 and 1662

The Farthing Pie House or Pye House in what is now the Euston Road was so called because mutton pies could be bought there for a farthing

Marylebone Church
Views of Marylebone Church in the 16th century and in 1750. Date: 1875

Old manor house
The Old Manor House in what is now Marylebone Gardens, had been converted into a hunting lodge by Henry VIII and was later used as a boarding school, eventually being demolished in 1791. Date: 1875

The Serpentine
Illustration depicting the outfall of water from the Serpentine at Knightsbridge. 1800. Date: 1875

Serpentine Bridge
View of the Serpentine Bridge in Hyde Park. It was designed by John Rennie the Younger in 1820 as part of newly-built West Carriage Drive bounding Hyde Park against Kensington Gardens

The Four-in-Hand Club
The Four-In-Hand Club, a coach driving club, was founded in April 1808, by Charles Buxton, the inventor of the Buxton bit, along with some friends

Cake House, Hyde Park
In the time of Queen Anne, it was known as the Cheesecake House, Cake House or Minced-pie House and later was called Prices Lodge (later it was Prices Lodge, run by a widow named Frances Price)

Achilles Statue, Hyde Park
The Wellington Monument is a statue of Achilles erected as a memorial to Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and his victories in the Peninsular War

Trees in Hyde Park
A clump of trees in Hyde Park. c.1840. Date: 1875

Hyde Park 1804
Hyde Park on a Sunday. Date: 1875

Grosvenor House
View of the front of Grosvenor House. Grosvenor House was one of the largest townhouses in London, home of the Grosvenor family (better known as the Dukes of Westminster) for more than a century

Hyde Park map
Map of Hyde Park showing Knightsbridge and the Tybourn Turnpike. 1780. Date: 1875

Chesterfield House
View of the grand staircase at Chesterfield House, a London townhouse built between 1747 and 1752 by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, statesman and man of letters

Claridges Hotel
Claridges was founded in 1812 as Mivarts Hotel, in a conventional London terraced house, and it grew by expanding into neighbouring houses. In 1854, the founder (the father of biologist St)

Curzon Chapel
Formerly known as Mayfair Chapel, Curzon Chapel was erected in 1730 and remained on the site until 1894. Date: 1875

Tiddy Dol
The origins of Tiddy Dol derive from a unique Georgian street seller. Nowadays we will buy popcorn while watching a movie

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