Need a help. Historical British buildings

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Westminster Abbey - unknown dates:






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Westminster Abbey. Captioned as '100 year old postcard':



Westminster Abbey. Also '100 year old':



Unknown date:



Unknown date:



Westminster Abbey 1914:



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St Paul's Cathedral. '100 year old':



London 1930's:



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Unknown date:

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From this site (can be searched within site):

http://grumpystumpy.com/Pages/Englan...arliament.html


Westminster Abbey 1933:



1933:



National Gallery:



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British Museum:






Houses of Parliament 1947:




From Wikipedia..
Plans for British Museum ...for changes to be made 1906. This might show the old roof etc.:

"The architect Sir John James Burnet was petitioned
to put forward ambitious long-term plans to extend
the building on all three sides. Most of the houses in
Montague Place were knocked down a few years
after the sale. Of this grand plan only the Edward VII
galleries in the centre of the North Front were ever
constructed, these were built 1906-14 to the design
by J.J. Burnet, and opened by King George V and
Queen Mary in 1914. They now house the Museum's
collections of Prints and Drawings and
Oriental Antiquities. There was not enough money to
put up more new buildings, and so the houses in the
other streets are nearly all still standing".

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Postcard sent in 1945, so photo is probably taken earlier than that:





British Museum. Date unknown:



National Gallery. Date unknown:












British museum:





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St Paul's, pre war!!!



Tower of London:

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Links - The Gallery in Wartime:

http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/sho...oductID=300952


http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/wartime/content.html

http://images.google.se/imgres?imgur...MoXD-Qba0aSGAg





Watch this video:

Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CU9T...ayer_embedded#

"The Blitz. Bombed roof. Gallery at War:
One bomb completely destroyed Room XXVI (now Room 10)On 7 September 1940, the Blitz began in earnest. The City and the East End bore the brunt of the bombing but other parts of London and the south-east were also severely affected.
The National Gallery was hit by bombs nine times between October 1940 and April 1941. The worst occasion was on 12 October 1940 – a high explosive bomb fell on the Gallery totally destroying the room where the Raphaels had hung just before the war.
On another occasion, an unexploded time bomb was discovered in the wreckage from an earlier attack. It later exploded while a lunchtime concert was being held at the other end of the building. Witnesses say that the musicians playing at the time of the explosion didn’t miss a beat."







"Myra Hess and the lunchtime concerts:
Myra Hess had meant to stop playing the piano for the duration of the war. Soon after war was declared, she held a tea party for some friends. That afternoon she intended to play for one last time before locking the lid of her grand piano. The friends, some of whom were refugees recently arrived from mainland Europe, begged her not to give up playing. The idea of the National Gallery concerts was born.
Starved of entertainment, crowds flocked to the Gallery for the lunchtime concerts. These performances were an opportunity to hear the foremost musicians of the day. Many were given by Myra Hess herself. Favourites in her repertoire were Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann. The aim was to make classical music accessible to all. The entrance price was set low at one shilling.
The concerts were a huge success. Even in the darkest days of the Blitz, they were nearly always full".





"On the night of 16 November 1940, incendiary bombs destroyed Hamptons, a department store next door to the National Gallery. The ruins were demolished after the war and the site remained vacant. For several years it served as a car park".

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British Museum:

[KG26_Alpha]

The buildings are hardly touched structurally as they are Historical monuments.

The surrounding out buildings and service areas probably need removing from modern pics but the buildings are as they were then apart from the colour, mostly black / grey stone work due to dust / soot etc.

Roofing materials and structures should be the same as they restore the lead copper like for like to preserve original specification, see national heritage and English heritage web sites, so there should be no structural changes made.

As for Dover pier this site might help.

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/s...er/index.shtml

[Freycinet]

Please remember that all historical sites and buildings were SANDBAGGED in the period of BoB. Monuments were covered up or removed to prevent bomb damage. Just look at the famous Anteros statue on Piccadilly Circus:

1896:


WWII:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus
"The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus was erected in 1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. During the Second World War, the statue atop the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain was removed and was replaced by advertising hoardings. It was returned in 1948."

[Wolf_Rider]

www.antiquarian-rare-old-books.com (search Dover Castle) for the images which won't appear, even though links works in browser












http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Dover.html#anchor1001167

[ben_wh]

The book and the DVD (and the video extract) on this page may be relevant -

The National Gallery in Wartime
http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/sho...oductID=300952


Cheers,

[Rodolphe]

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A tour of London in 1938.

Buckingham Palace 00:15

Constituition Hill 00:01:30

British Museum 00:02:40

Picadilly Circus 00:03:28

Trafalgar Square National Gallery, Church of St Martins, Nelson's Column 00:04:04

Whitehall 00:04:35

10 Downing Street, Neville Chamberlain 00:05:15

the Centograph 00:05:40

Scotland Yard 00:06:25

Westminster Abbey, Big Ben 00:06:40

St Paul's Cathedral 00:07:30

Bank of England 00:07:46

Tower of London 00:08:55

London Bridge 00:10:45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnupsncpTng&NR=1

More to come next week. ; )



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