The London Daily Newsletter Friday 17 March

Mill Lane, looking east (1900s)
Mill Lane is one of the major thoroughfares of West Hampstead.

Mill Lane was originally called Shoot-up-Hill Lane. The present name is derived from a mill which stood on the Edgware Road. It was burnt down in 1861, owing to the friction caused by the high velocity of the sails in a gale. By the turn of the twentieth century, sections of Mill Lane had become filled with shops and small businesses.

TUM Book Club: Old Covent Garden
The magic of the old Covent Garden Market is evoked through Clive Boursnell’s photographs, taken over the course of numerous visits to Covent Garden in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Clive Boursnell, then a young photographer, shot thousands of photographs of the old Covent Garden, documenting the end of an era before the markets moved out of central London. Boursnell captured these last days of the market over a period of six years, from 1968 until the market’s closure, in a series of beautiful portraits of the feisty life of a city institution.

‘Piccadilly Circus, London’ (1960)

L.S. Lowry

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