Its condition is a disgrace and BoJo ought to do something about it right now.
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Showing posts with label hatton garden. Show all posts
Friday, 27 February 2009
Hatton Garden, WC2
Its condition is a disgrace and BoJo ought to do something about it right now.
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Saturday, 17 January 2009
Treasure House, 19-21 Hatton Garden EC1
Treasure House, built in 1907 to designs by Niven & Wigglesworth, has a particularly nice set of carvings illustrating the getting, making and uses of gold.
They are not in any particular sequence, unusually, so mining, which logically should be on the left, is centre right. The miner is holding a prybar, looking for a seam in the stratified rock to the light of a Davy lamp.
The rest of the figures are customers, one man and two women, which may reflect Hatton Garden's 'footfall' quite well.
The sculptor does not seem to be recorded, and there are no signatures on the works themselves. On stylistic grounds I think it may be by Charles Doman, who in 1907 was assisting the elderly Albert Hodge, who did other work for Niven & Wigglesworth. Another candidate would be L.F. Roselieb - see Norway House. Anyone know better?
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