As Paul Nixon mentioned in his comment to my last post, Ludgate Circus has changed a bit since my family lived there.
G-uncle Ted was a typewriter mechanic and must have been busy in the era before word-processors and computers. One of his hobbies was painting and one of his pictures that I possess is that of Ludgate Circus - Sunday Morning and dated 1903. The view is from one of windows at the top of Number 4 and looks up Ludgate Hill towards St Paul's Cathedral.
Interesting that this picture contains a policeman, I wonder if this is nod in his father's direction?
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What a fantastic illustration and you can imagine him sitting up in that attic room and sketching the scene below. How peaceful as well, even for a Sunday morning.
ReplyDeleteI popped into that Wren church on Ludgate Hill last time I was in England - beautiful inside. What a great place to have been brought up in, even though life must have been very hard.
BTW this is a pen and ink drawing. Must have taken hours to do. I suppose not a lot else to do before even the radio.
ReplyDeleteIt's remarkable artwork. Do post some more if you have others in your collection. I've just run a Google search on "obelisk Ludgate Circus" and have found out that there were originally two obelisks, one of which has been re-located to Salisbury Square. These links will tell you more: http://pmsa.cch.kcl.ac.uk/images/nrpCL/clsk39.jpg and http://www.9fairfield.eclipse.co.uk/haytor/londbr1.html
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