Mick Hartley

At SkyscraperCity – "Some old pictures of London I found on the internet" – many from the British Library collection (via). This is the Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane, 1875, with St Paul's in the background:

Interesting to see Temple Bar (about one third down the page, or here at the British Library gallery) in its original City location just a couple of years before it was taken down and carted off to Theobalds Park, before its recent restoration and re-siting in Paternoster Square.

I don't know the technicalities, but it would be wonderful if the BL would set up a website showing these old photographs digitalised and generally smartened up, in the same way that Shorpy operates in the US with the Library of Congress archive.