Georgian London: Into the Streets
“The City Viewed from the circular Golden Gallery at the summit of St Paul’s Cathedral, London spreads in every direction, an endless suburbia spawned by the railways. From the same vantage point at the beginning of the Georgian period, the limits of London were clear.
The cathedral sat at the heart of the rebuilt City, its dazzling white exterior already attracting a patina of dirt by the time the first service was held in December 1697. Around it, the shops and houses thrown up on the razed e...arth were low and neat, the ridges of their roofs orderly, built to the new post-fire regulations. They ranged from the solid palaces of merchant princes to the hastily erected cheap dwellings of Aldersgate and Cripplegate, packed with porters, day labourers and watermen. The streets were wider and cleaner than before the Great Fire. All around, the myriad spires of rebuilt parish churches poked up above the new tiles, echoed across the river by the many windmill sails rising from the mist of low-lying Southwark.MoreLess
The cathedral sat at the heart of the rebuilt City, its dazzling white exterior already attracting a patina of dirt by the time the first service was held in December 1697. Around it, the shops and houses thrown up on the razed e...arth were low and neat, the ridges of their roofs orderly, built to the new post-fire regulations. They ranged from the solid palaces of merchant princes to the hastily erected cheap dwellings of Aldersgate and Cripplegate, packed with porters, day labourers and watermen. The streets were wider and cleaner than before the Great Fire. All around, the myriad spires of rebuilt parish churches poked up above the new tiles, echoed across the river by the many windmill sails rising from the mist of low-lying Southwark.MoreLess
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