Farringdon Street London 1896 Antique Print

A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1896 about London, with another picture on the reverse side.

Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm.

Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.4cm x 17.7cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description.

All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit.

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

FARRINGDON STREET.—"The whole great ward of Farindon," says Stow, "took its name from W. Farindon, goldsmith, alderman of that ward, and one of the sheriffs of London in the year 1281." Farringdon Without is by far the largest of the 26 wards of London. Farringdon Street, shown in this view, runs northward from the obelisk in Ludgate Circus to the line of Holborn, and is constructed -over the celebrated Fleet Ditch. In this street, too, stood Fleet Market, which was opened for the sale of meat, fish, and vegetables, on the 3oth of September, 1737, but did not complete a century of existence here. In 1829 it was found necessary to widen the thoroughfare from Holborn to Black-friars Bridge; so Fleet Market was removed from Farringdon Street, and Farringdon Market, in the immediate vicinity, but off the line of the street) was opened in its stead on the 20th Nov., 1829, at a cost of about £280,000. On the east side of Farringdon Street, and on a part of the site of the old Fleet Prison, stands the Congregational Memorial Hall and Library, a handsome building in the Second Pointed style of the French type, the foundation stone of which was laid on the 10th of May, 1872. This hall was erected by the Congregationalists of England and Wales, to commemorate the "fidelity to conscience" of the 2,000 ministers who were ejected from the Church of England on the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1662. The building comprises a hail capable of holding from 1,200 to 1,500 people; a library with accommodation for 300; a board-room, and twenty-five other offices, the cost of the whole edifice being about £28,000.