{"id":1860,"date":"2010-06-17T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T09:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2010-06-17T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T09:57:34","slug":"lost-london-1870-1945-stunning-unpublished-archive-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/lost-london-1870-1945-stunning-unpublished-archive-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost London 1870 &#8211; 1945: stunning unpublished archive images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0955794986?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=maxhits-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0955794986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/lost-london.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=maxhits-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=0955794986\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>Stuffed full of over 500 incredible photographs of London taken between 1875 and 1945, this coffee table book from English Heritage is an absolute treat.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 previously unpublished images show stunning buildings from Elizabethan, Georgian and Victorian London before great swathes of London were redeveloped.<\/p>\n<p>The photographs are of incredibly high quality &#8211; you can easily spend ages getting lost in just one image seeking out details.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>..this endlessly absorbing book that is at once a record of destruction, a haunting collection of relics and a door into the past-\u00a0 Sunday Times<\/p>\n<p>Stuffed with beautiful images &#8230; this satisfyingly heavy book depicts a grimy, muddy city with spots of aristocratic grandeur, a city on the verge of transformation- Financial Times<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t recommend this book enough &#8211; click on the photo above to bag yourself a copy from Amazon &#8211; it&#8217;s currently under \u00a320 which is an unbelievable bargain.<\/p>\n<p>If you want an instant history fix, feel free to browse the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/history\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brixton Then and Now<\/a> historic archive for loads of obsessively rephotographed scenes of old and new Brixton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuffed full of over 500 incredible photographs of London taken between 1875 and 1945, this coffee table book from English Heritage is an absolute treat. 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