Nostalgia
The Limehouse lifeboat builders of Victorian London
Forrestt's, established in 1788, built most lifeboats used in Victorian Britain and tested them in the Limehouse Cut
Reginald Frontispiece Ltd
On leaving school in 1960, I worked in Fleet Street, in press photography. My interest in the printed image expanded to include vintage and antique prints. What was a collection became a business!
Memory Lane
Remembering Alfred Lord Tennyson poet laureate who died on this day in 1892
Alfred, Lord Tennyson was laid to rest October 6 - 1892.
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The Royal beginnings of Yachting as a sport in England
Today, there are probably more sailing and yachting clubs along the shores of the River Thames than at any time in the country's history
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The day rockets rained down on East and South East London
No, not 'doodle-bugs' or 'V-2s' but British rockets manufacture at Woolwich Arsenal!
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The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest regiment in the British Army
The Company lost 1,650 men killed in WW1 and gained two Victoria Crosses for valour at Gavrelle in 1917
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Royal Observatory Greenwich foundation stone was laid today in 1675
The Royal Observatory moved to Herstmonceux in 1948, where it was Renamed the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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Upper North Street School: A bombing that changed the Royal Family's name!
On this day 13th. June in 1917 the deadliest attack on London during WWI took place resulting in 162 fatalities and 432 injuries.
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HMS Northumberland launched at Millwall on the Isle of Dogs in 1866
The vessel was the fifth Royal Navy battleship to bear the name, her immediate namesake having served with distinction during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Nostalgia: The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1867
... a chaotic scene of entries for the 'Summer Exhibition' at the Royal Academy's newly acquired Burlington House.
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HMS Assistance sunk in the Thames off Limehouse and later abandoned in Arctic waters
Assistance became trapped with other vessels in ice off Bathurst Island where she was abandoned in August 1854.
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A look back at Edgar Allen Poe's childhood in east London
At No 172 Stoke Newington Church Street, a Brown Plaque produced by the London Borough of Hackney was unveiled on 4 June 2011.
Memory Lane
Nostalgia: London Bridge across the River Thames in 1854
‘Readers Digest Canada’ Nicholas D’Ascanio, “We’re bigger than London, Kentucky,”