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Лондон и лондонцы во времена Шерлока Холмса

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Fleet Street, London, c.1894.

Photograph showing the view east along Fleet Street, towards Ludgate and St. Paul's Cathedral, c.1894.

A large number of horse-drawn carriages can be seen rushing along the street as a steam train heads south towards Blackfriars.
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Arthur Balfour visiting Smithfield Market, London, 1906.

Illustration showing Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), the Conservative MP (centre, holding top hat), visiting Smithfield Meat Market in London, February 1906.

Escorted by the markets superintendants and policemen, Balfour is shown being enthusiastically received by the market dealers and porters.

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Covent Garden Market, London, 1872.

Engraving showing buyers and sellers at one of the flower and plant markets in Covent Garden, London, 1872. This image was originally entitled "Spring in Covent Garden".

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Strap-hangers

Picture by Sidney Paget illustrating, "the new way of travelling against which railway passengers revolt". When straps were added to underground railway carriages in the early 1900s, there was an outcry among travellers. Several ILN papers echoed public feeling and felt that the idea of commuters having to stand for such distances was unfair.

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Interior carriage of the Thames Subway. 1870

The interior carriage of the Thames Subway at Tower Hill. The underground railway ran from Tower Hill to Tooley Street.

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The scene outside immediately after the explosion at Edgware Road Station tube station 1883

People running in panic from Edgware Road Station moments after an explosion on the underground service. The explosion took place between Praed Street and Edgware Road on a train travelling from Charing Cross to Westminster. The wounded were taken to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, to be treated.


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London's new amusement: Up and down the escalator

Illustration from 1911 of the first escalators ever installed on the underground, between the District and the Piccadilly line platforms at Earls Court station. At the time, they provided great entertainment for the passengers using them.


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Женская тюрьма. 1909
Holloway Castle's prison creche.

'Holloway Castle' women's prison introduced the first creche for prison babies. Babies were admitted if they were born in prison or were under three months when their mothers were jailed. The babies slept in cots within their mother's cell, with nurses overseeing the babies' welfare. At nine months of age the baby had to leave the prison.

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Prisoner and Counsel in Interview at the Old Bailey, 1920.

Illustration showing how lawyers held interviews with their clients under the sight, but not hearing, of prison warders at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London in 1920.


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Queen Victoria with her dog, Sharp.

Queen Victoria at Balmoral in 1867 with her dog, Sharp.


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Berner Street 1888
From 'The Pictorial News' 6 October 1888

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Нечестивая_Истина   обратиться по имени от Нечестивицы Четверг, 03 Декабря 2009 г. 00:46 (ссылка)
Жаль, не по-русски... Я, конечно, чуть-чуть знаю инглиш, но чтобы так, читать с листа - нет
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Нечестивая_Истина   обратиться по имени от Нечестивицы Суббота, 05 Декабря 2009 г. 01:38 (ссылка)
Рикки-Тикки-Тави, кому понятно, а кто чуть словарь не изнасиловал! ))))))))))))))))))
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