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In an area of noted local historic character - keeping facades has been one proposed way of marrying old with new. Does it work?
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Saturday, 3 August 2013
Façadism in Spitalfields - does it work for you, or is it facile?
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In an area of noted local historic character - keeping facades has been one proposed way of marrying old with new. Does it work?
Thursday, 1 August 2013
The "Parliament of Petticoat Lane"
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| copyright Jim Linwood http://www.flickr.com/photos/brighton/4765031492/ |
Dilapidated public toilets in Leyden Street - where arguing Jewish Petticoat Lane market traders once put the world to rights, now quiet.
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Tuesday, 9 April 2013
HISTORY IN THE PUB: TALES FROM TUDOR LONDON Thursday 18 April, 7pm, doors open 6:30pm
HISTORY IN THE PUB: TALES
FROM TUDOR LONDON
A London Historians Event
Learn about the history of London over a pint after work!
Thursday 18 April, 7pm, doors open 6:30pm.
The Bell, Middlesex Street, Spitalfields. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East or Liverpool Street.
An evening of talks, fun, quiz, prizes and serious history.
Featuring historians Suzannah Lipscomb and Mathew Lyons.
The highly accomplished Andrew Maginley from The Frolick will be giving us some Tudor tunes on his lute.
++PLUS PLUS++ The usual speed quiz and draws etc. for excellent prizes.
MC and quizmaster: Matt Brown from Londonist.
LH Members: Free Non-members, guests: £5.
Spaces are limited. Please email admin@londonhistorians.org to express interest (no obligation) so that we can estimate numbers, thanks
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Monday, 30 January 2012
The Changing face of housing in the East End of London
This And That, a photo by Dave Gorman on Flickr.
Thanks to Dave Gorman for the photo above, which ably demonstrates that modern investment is for generic student housing in a block called NIDO click here for more info compared with the older local authority housing blocks, originally built as slum clearance. However, will student numbers decline as a response to spiralling fees?
Compare the surface treatment of the NIDO to that of the nearby Royal London Hospital at Whitrechapel. Is there a problem when buildings with very different functions look alike? or is it the zeitgeist? or a new local Historic Landscape Character?
New Royal London Hospital building, Whitechapel, a photo by louisberk on Flickr.
Thanks to Louis Berk for this image
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