Jays Stores
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| Jays for Jeans, Surrey Quays |
Save the Curzon Soho
Sign the petition - https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-curzon-soho
Dave's Barbers
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| A national institution |
No cycling
London Bridge station
Madame JoJo's
Ian Dury and Tubby Issacs
Ian Dury and Tubby Isaacs now both sadly gone.
Sir Christopher Wren's plan for rebuilding London
Battersea Power Station
One chimney down. Will the other three follow?
The Red Cow
Cycling in London
As if cycling in London was not dangerous enough this
brave soul is cycling around Trafalgar Square, dressed in Victorian costume, on
a penny farthing.
Sarsaparilla down East Lane Market
Bermondsey antiques market
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The Old Tabard, Borough High Street
The Old Tabard has long gone. Established in 1307 and demolished in 1873 it was the home of Harry Bailey from Geoffrey Chaucers, The Canterbury Tales
Bifel that in that season on a day,
In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay
Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
To Caunterbury with ful devout corage,
Former Surrey Docks Offices
The Intrepid Fox, Wardour Street
In 1784 the Intrepid Fox was named after flamboyant politician
Sir Charles James Fox. It went on to be the pub to visit before seeing a band
in the Marquee on the other side of the road. It’s where Mick Jagger poached
Ron Wood away from the Faces to join the Stones and where Slash went to drown
his sorrows when, being worse for wear, security stopped him from entering his
own show when Gun’s ‘n’ Roses played the Marquee
It’s now a burger bar.
Humidor
A 'walk in' humidor in Wardour Street.
Natural History Museum
Too late for this one.
The House of Toby
Once upon a time these ceramic Toby Ale signs decorated nearly every pub in London
Covent Garden tobacconist
Tobacco, Cuban cigars and snuff. "Pipe smokers delight".
Flag House
Flag House in Tanner Street, Bermondsey. Now luxury flats, hence the Porsche packed outside.
Market barrow
These barrows used to be everywhere but have now almost disappeared as have the street markets. Always green with red wheels.
Tubby Isaac's
Tubby Isaac’s jellied eel stall in Aldgate finally closes after 94 years - Docklands & East London Advertiser
Pall Mall barbers
Pall Mall barbers (since 1896) in Whitcombe Street, next to the National Gallery. The archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler lived above the shop.
W. Sitch & Co
Manufacturers of and dealers in period lighting since 1770. 48 Berwick Street, Soho. www.wsitch.co.uk
Monumental Masons
A. Elfes in Brick Lane, Monumental Masons (as in gravestones not huge members of a secret sect) now gone.
J. Evans, Dairy
A dairy in Warren Street
The Hat Factory
Henry Heath's Hat Factory, off of Oxford Street. Now gone
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London pubs are starting to disappear to be replaced by rapidly expanding
coffee shop chains. The Hand and Racquet,
just off Leicester Square and opened in 1865, proudly boasts to be ‘a little pub with a big
welcome’ but has sadly now poured it's last pint. Regulars included Tommy Cooper, Tony Hancock and Sid James.
Punch & Judy
A sad, lonely Punch & Judy booth on a wet London Street
My Tea Shop
My Tea Shop beneath London Bridge Station
The Mousetrap
In it's 60th year at the same theatre. This will never 'pass'
Cultural Exchange: Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap'endures – Los Angeles Times 25th Nov 2012
Thomas B Treacy
Literally, before they pass
Minos Hairdressing - Lewisham
The Linen Cupboard - Great Castle Street
How long before shops like this disappear from our High Street. Where we will buy our Egyptian cotton sheets (at very reasonable prices) and our "Household & Baby Linen"?
The Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Fountain – Regents Park – dated
1869
A plaque on the fountain states "This fountain was
erected by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and the Cattle Trough Association
was the gift of Sir Cowasjee Jehangir (Companion of the Star of India) a
wealthy parsee gentleman of Bombay as a token of gratitude to the people of
England for the protection enjoyed by him and his Parsee fellow countrymen under
the British Rule in India."
How long can it survive the corrosive effects of the weather?
Coiffeur de Dames - Maida Vale
One for the ladies.
Book shops - Charring Cross Road
Who knows how long these book shops will last in Charring
Cross Road due to the pressure from Soho’s ever expanding China Town and
relentless globalisation of our high streets. Some book shops have already disappeared
to be replaced by London’s limitless thirst for coffee shops.
Gaby’s Deli – 30 Charing Cross Road
In praise of … Gaby's Deli - Guardian
18 January 2012
Restaurant review: Gaby's Deli, London – Telegraph 27 January 2012
Another characterful corner of London gets ready forblanding out – Telegraph 24 September
2011
Stars unite to save the falafels that fuelled theatreland
- The Observer, Sunday 11 December 2011
Briggs - "Gentlemens Hairdresser" - 5 Ormond Yard, St James
A Mayfair barber. Traditional haircuts for men as well as shaving and beard trims.
A brilliant start to this part of your blog, these places should be listed and preserved in someway, with support coming from the Government to keep them going as best they can, they embody and reinforce many things that made these parts of London of London what they are now.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see more of your 'finds'
A great collection of images of the hidden London.
ReplyDeleteThe "My Tea Shop" at London Bridge is the most curious of places, I remember going in there one day around 3.30pm into an empty shop, sitting at a table and asking for a coffee and being asked by the person serving, what I wanted to eat, "Just a coffee please." I'm sorry" came the reply, "no drinks without food". Sadly can't see it surviving with that attitude.
Just above this on approaching the London Bridge bus concourse were three other shops in 'arches', one was a dry cleaners, another a tailors, the other was Alan Brett Cannon, or ABC, a model train specialists, now if only that had survived!
Lastly, the image of the closed, wet Punch and Judy tent, is as evocative of sadness as the great Tony Hancock film, 'The Punch and Judy Man'. Nice stuff.