The London Daily Newsletter Friday 21 July

St Martins Mission
Saint Martin’s Mission was originally known as Rackham Hall as it was situated on Rackham Street.

It was built by Mr Allen, a local builder. It was the Mission Church of Saint Michael and All Angels, Ladbroke Grove. After 1916 it become a parish stretching from Ladbroke Grove to St Quintin’s Park. The area was bombed during the Second World War, and the whole of Rackham Street disappeared in the early 1950s. A theory discussed about the photo is that it may show the last days of Rackham Street as people were packing to move out.

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.

Mansion House Engraving by J Woods based on a work by Hablot Browne and R Garland.

J Woods

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