Volume: London Wall - Volume 2

Description

An album of 88 pages containing 88 black and white prints. With the exception of the first print in the album they all date from between Jul 1971 and Dec 1973.

The majority of the photographs show the remains of the wall on the Barbican site, which was being re-developed in this period. The wall in this area is made of the widened north and west walls of the Cripplegate Fort. Bastions 11A, 12 (the corner bastion), 13 and 14 which are on this section of wall are also shown in many prints.

The album also contains four views of the stretch of wall parallel to Noble Street.

The western section of wall on the Barbican site (on Monkwell Street) was later incorporated into the Barber Surgeons Hall and some of this brickwork remains. It appears overgrown and derelict in these photographs as it is in the midst of a building site.

The northern section (running along the north side of the old churchyard of St Giles Cripplegate, between Wallside and the lake) is shown during and after it was consolidated and the line of the lost sections of wall marked by a footpath.

Content

This is part of the Series: OWS01/01 The 'Blue Albums'; within the Collection: OWS01 Office Of Works And Successors: Ancient Monuments And Historic Buildings

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph (Print): 88

Photograph Album: 1

Rights

© Crown Copyright. Historic England Archive