The London Daily Newsletter Thursday 22 June

Barham House
Barham (Boreham) House was once one of the most prominent properties in Elstree.

There had been a house on the site since circa 1600 which had changed occupants many times and was renamed over the years. Francis Burton M.D. (died 1828), uncle of Richard Francis Burton, military surgeon who made Napoleon’s Death Mask, lived at Barham House, and is buried in Elstree parish church. The final owner, the famous publisher Andrew Chatto, was there by 1897. His son sold the property to a local estate agency which demolished it.

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.

“Bridge in London” (1908) Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky or Dobužinskis (1875-1957) was a Lithuanian/Russian artist noted for his cityscapes conveying the explosive growth and decay of the early twentieth-century city.

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

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