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January 16, 2011
the Bishopsgate Institute has a collection of pictures taken by the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London in its archive. Photographers Alfred Henry Bool, John Bool, Henry Dixon and William Strudwick were commissioned by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London to record historic buildings that were being threatened with demolition.
The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London originated in the wish of a few friends to preserve a record of the 'Oxford Arms' Inn, threatened with destruction in 1875, and actually demolished a few years later. The project was so well received, that it enabled the Society to follow up the first issue, and later on to double the annual number of photographs. By the twelfth years issue, published in April 1886, it was considered the project had reached its completion.
The entrance of The Oxford Arms Inn, which was demolished in 1878.
The archive can be accessed online at PhotoLondon and then at the Museum of London. I love the look of this old photographs produced by the old view cameras.
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