A walk around Lincoln's Inn Fields/Holborn (photos)

[editor]

This is a great area to walk around!

http://www.urban75.org/london/images/holborn-london-24.jpg

http://www.urban75.org/london/lincolns-inn-fields.html

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http://www.urban75.org/london/holborn-london.html

The ol'Ricoh GX100 camera did a grand job too.

[19sixtysix]

Good photos. If you visit Lincoln Inn Fields the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College Surgeons (south side of square) is well a look if only to remind you how good modern life is with our medical science.

[ska invita]

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these nice pics remind that one of these days i want to do a pub crawl of all the ye olde pubs, kicking of round here and heading out through the city out to the prospect of whitby out east on the thames, that one with the noose outside it.

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Also around Holborn/Lincoln Inn is the oldest shop in London:

http://www.londontown.com/9283HUDG28/LondonImages/2006/March/HJ757163_429long.jpg

At one time it functioned as a dairy on an estate given by King Charles II to one of his many mistresses. Made using the wood from old ships the building miraculously survived the flames of the Great Fire of 1666 and the bombs of Second World War. Still functioning as a shop (an upmarket men’s and women’s shoe boutique at the time of writing), the building’s future and architectural heritage is now protected by a preservation order.

Dwarfed by more recent architectural constructions, the shop is often literally overlooked by tourists and locals alike but is worth seeking out if you’re in the area – especially if you need a new pair of shoes. Pay a visit after exploring Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the Inns of Court or John Soane’s Museum.
http://www.londontown.com/LondonInformation/Shopping/The_Old_Curiosity_Shop/6740/

[Janh]

This is a great area to walk around!



These are great pics ed. enhanced by choosing b&w, you really capture the spirit of the area: ancient, priveleged and quirky. It's my old manor and has many stories to tell.

The Lloyds Bank opposite the Law Courts used to be a restaurant which I suppose explains the fish motif. They ate in fine style in those days.

Your Whitby and Co pic just about shows the site of the first English serial murdered Sweeney Todd. His shop was at Hen and Chickens Court next door to D.C. Thomson Publishing – Beano's home –*Thomson I think are the only publishers remaining on Fleet Street.

If ever you walk past the private bank Hoare's which is opposite the Beano, walk inside just to look at a banking hall from the old days, all wood pannelling and private attentive service. More like a museum than an active banking hall. Don't be put off by the flunky on the door.