Charing Cross Cafe Charing Cross Road c 1935

Charing Cross Cafe Charing Cross Road c 1935The cafs around Charing Cross catered for theatre and cinema visitors, bookshop browsers and loiterers who frequented the area during the 1920s and 1930s. This caf and others, including J Lyons Corner House at the end of Charing Cross Road, appeared to be relaxing and inviting places despite their busy locations. Suschitzky worked as a film cameraman in nearby Soho. In between his working hours, he created a series of photos depicting the activity in

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The street was lost as was the church

Mare Street in the South East and Waterloo Street in the South West

Doré produced 180 engravings and the resulting book was issued in parts from January 1872

are the barge houses of Archbishop of Canterbury

This view shows the entrance to the Brewery in Park Street with the office block at the rear of the yard

'Mr Charles Dickens's Last Reading' in the Illustrated London News for January-June 1870

looking south west

conceived by George Remington

Illustration from Ackermann's 'The Microcosm of London'

The dock was pumped dry to allow for the building of concrete ‘harbours’ that would be towed to France for ‘D Day’

while acknowledging the value of India to Britain