#lincolns inn fields

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Lincoln’s Inn Fields & Details from the John Soanes Museum, Holborn, London

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Paper Shadows 🏺🖼️

Frame study from Contrasts: The Buildings of England (1968).

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John, Lord Hervey, Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second from His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline

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Why does all the info on a play I am looking at say it was staged at the 'theatre royal' with no further context. Do they know how many theatre royals there are. In 1671 the theatre royal was just the term they used for patent theatres this is so unhelpful

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Perspective view of the dome area within the home and museum of John Soane at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, c.1813 by Joseph Michael Gandy (English, 1771--1843)

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View of the Breakfast Parlour at 12 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Sir John Soane

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Court Circular | 6th November 2024

Buckingham Palace

The Princess Royal, on behalf of The King, held an Investiture at Windsor Castle this morning.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, Learning and Work Institute, and President, Carers Trust, this afternoon attended the “Driving Change” Conference at City Lit College, 1-10 Keeley Street, London WC2, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (Sir Kenneth Olisa).

Her Royal Highness, President, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conferences, this evening attended a Reception at Brunswick Group, 16 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2, and was received by Ms. Roxane Zand (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

The Princess Royal, Patron, Shaftesbury, later held a One Hundred and Eightieth Anniversary Dinner at St James’s Palace.

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I have to share this, because I didn't know this until now and I need others to know this if they didn't already.

58 Lincoln's Inn Fields, the address of Mr Tulkinghorne in Bleak House, is the home of Dicken's friend and biographer, John Forster.

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‘There again!’ said Mr Gridley, with no diminution of his rage. ‘The system! I am told, on all hands, it’s the system. I mustn’t look to individuals. It’s the system. I mustn’t go into Court, and say, ‘My Lord, I beg to know this from you - is this right or wrong? Have you the face to tell me I have received justice, and therefore am dismissed?’ My Lord knows nothing of it. He sits there, to administer the system. I mustn’t go to Mr Tulkinghorn, the solicitor in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and say to him when he makes me furious, by being so cool and satisfied - as they all do; for I know they gain by it while I lose, don’t I? - I mustn’t say to him, I will have something out of someone for my ruin, by fair means or foul! HE is not responsible. It’s the system. But, if I do no violence to any of them, here - I may! I don’t know what may happen if I am carried beyond myself at last! - I will accuse the individual workers of that system against me, face to face, before the great eternal bar!’

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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Attendants from the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College Of Surgeons packing up some of the 3000 human skulls stored in a shed in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, before their transfer to the Natural History Museum, 1st July 1948.

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Court Circular | 8th February 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King and The Queen Consort this morning visited Altab Ali Park, Adler Street, London E1, and were received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London (Sir Kenneth Olisa). His Majesty, escorted by the Joint Founder of British Bangladeshi Power and Inspiration (Ms Ayesha Qureshi), and Her Majesty, escorted by Mr Abdal Ullah (Joint Founder), viewed the Park and met members of the local community. The King and The Queen Consort afterwards visited Brick Lane, London E2, and, having been received by Her Excellency the High Commissioner of Bangladesh (Ms Saida Muna Tasneem), walked along Brick Lane meeting representatives of the local community. Their Majesties subsequently visited Brick Lane Mosque, were received by the Treasurer of Brick Lane Mosque Trust (Mr Hamidur Rahman Choudhury) and met members from faith, business, charity and Covid-19-impacted communities. The King this afternoon opened a new frontline medical teaching hub at the University of East London, Stratford Campus, Water Lane, London E15, to mark the University’s One Hundred and Twenty Fifth Anniversary, and was received by the Chancellor (Mr Shabir Randeree) and Mr John Garwood (Chairman of the Board of Governors). His Majesty, escorted by Professor Amanda Broderick (Vice Chancellor and President), toured the Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub, visiting the Baby Development Laboratory, the Intensive Care Ward and the Interdisciplinary Healthcare Ward and meeting students. The King afterwards viewed an Environmental Sustainability Exhibition in the Great Hall and met students and tutors. The President of Ukraine later visited His Majesty. The Queen Consort, Colonel-in-Chief, The Rifles, this afternoon received General Sir Patrick Sanders (Colonel Commandant).

Kensington Palace

The Princess of Wales, Patron, Captain Harpreet Chandi’s Solo Antarctic Expedition, this morning visited Landau Forte College, Fox Street, Derby, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire (Mrs Elizabeth Fothergill).

St James’s Palace

The Countess of Wessex, Patron, the Scar Free Foundation, this morning visited the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 38-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2, to mark the United Nations International Women and Girls in Science Day, and was received by Ms. Geraldine Norris (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London). Her Royal Highness, Patron, Toronto General and Western Hospital, this afternoon held a Meeting. The Countess of Wessex, Chairman, Women in Business Committee, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, later chaired a Meeting at Buckingham Palace.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, Scottish Rugby Union, Royal Patron, Motor Neurone Disease Association, and Royal Patron, MND Scotland, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, today started the My Name’5 Doddie Foundation Charity Cycle Ride at Kingsholm Rugby Ground, Kingsholm Road, Gloucester, and was received by Mr Philip Vickery (Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire).

Kensington Palace

The Duchess of Gloucester, Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Army Dental Corps, today received Colonel Irene Amberton upon relinquishing her appointment as Colonel Commandant and Major General Ewan Carmichael upon assuming the appointment.

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🔸 Street scene at Clare Market, the south-west corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields, Central London, 1880 It sold meat, fish and fresh vegetables against the backdrop of rows of slum housing. Dickens once described the area as marked by "houses of a poor description, swarming with inhabitants". The entire quarter was knocked down and redeveloped at the start of the 20th century. Credit: 'Dickens's Victorian London' by Alex Werner and Tony Williams #victorianchaps #retro #london🇬🇧 #dickensian #vintage #goodolddays #oldphoto #history #streetlife #nostalgia #1880s #slums #poverty #victorian (at Lincoln's Inn Fields) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn5Y9V9j8kV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Friday 1 January 1836

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no kiss A- took two pills last night peewee and poorly and hipped this morning but says she is better - Ready in 50 minutes - breakfast at 9 10 in about ½ hour - at accounts and settling about Etrennes -before and after till 11 25 at which hour snowing (small snow, the ground whitish) and F30 ½° - went out at 11 ½ - no had Sharpe the cook and then George and gave them their new year’s gift - long talk to the former as to managing the house and keeping order - out from 12 to 1 20 in the farmyard and about - then 10 minutes with A- then (in the north dining room) from 1 35 to 4 making notes and extracts from vol. 2

‘A steam voyage down the Danube with sketches of Hungary, Wallachia, Servia [Serbia], and Turkey etc By Michael J. Quin, author of ‘a visit to Spain’ 2nd edition Revised and corrected. In 2 vols. vol. 1 London Richard Bentley new Burlington street 1835’ Printed by ‘Cox and sons, 75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields’ 2 vols. 12mo. pp. 321 and 324.’

out again from 4 to 5 ½ - Had Mr. Husband with Nelson’s bill (2 men not quite a day, but, of course, charged a day = 8/.) for fitting the 4 additional rag-stones that raised the Lower fishpond cistern 2ft. higher so that the cistern is now 6ft. deep and 3ft. x 2ft. 6in. inside - Mr. Husband told me Mr. Harper said it was odd that Firth called the 28lb. overweight in his bill for lead pipe (from the Lower fishpond) solder - solder being 10d per lb. and F- would probably have charged me 1/. a lb. for it - instead of putting it in at the same [prices] and the lead i.e. 2 3/4d. per lb. setting solder and everything included as agreed - However Mr. Husband seemed to think Firth had best perhaps furnish the 30 to 40 yards wanted of ½in. pipe for the farmyard and I could employ mercer in future - agreed - ¼ hour with my father and Marian - dressed - dinner at 6 ¼ - coffee - A- and I with my father and Marian - ¼ hour till 7 ¾ - I sat reading the Greek botany in the Encyclopaedia of geology till 8 55 and staid with her till 10 - during which time read the newspaper - found Marian with A- all annoyed about John Clarke and Mary Rhodes - a little partiality between them - John bad to get out and keep out of the parlour - Marian sick of her household - no order etc consoled her as well as I could - proposed setting all right by my being considered in my father’s place - my being master and Marian mistress - made this plan palatable to us all - Marian staid till 10 50 and had been 20 minutes with A- before I came - but we all seemed satisfied at the conclusion come to - such steps to be taken as right on consideration seem best for the purpose - A- and I sat up talking till long after 11 - fine day - F24 ½° at 11 ½ pm - note this morning by George from the P.O. from the H-x philosophical society and letter this evening from Mr. James Peat, 167 Piccadilly acknowledging the receipt of my letter and check on Hammersleys and letter this evening from Mr. Robert Walker 2 Jones street Berkeley square London with his bill for the morning Herald

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LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes — gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun. Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another’s umbrellas in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if the day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little ’prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds. Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time — as the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look. The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, sits the Lord High Chancellor in his High Court of Chancery.” ― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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Lincolns inn fields.

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Ship Tavern, Holborn

Mahogany-panelled 16th century pub with traditional real-ale bar and upstairs dining room.

Inside view

The Ship Tavern is an inn at the western corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields, at the corner of Gate Street and the Little Turnstile in London. Established in 1549, at the height of the English Reformation, when Catholicism became illegal, it was used to shelter Catholic priests and hold secret Catholic services. It was originally in Whetstone Park, which was notorious for its gambling houses. Richard Penderell, who aided Charles I's escape, visited it, as did John Bagford (a shoemaker and antiquarian), the Chevalier d'Eon (a woman who lived as a man) and John Smeaton (the builder of the Eddystone Lighthouse). It was consecrated as Masonic lodge 234 in 1786 by the Grand Master, the Earl of Antrim, and rebuilt in 1923.

Service options: Dine-in · Takeaway · No delivery

Address: 12 Gate St, London WC2A 3HP, United Kingdom

The Ship Tavern, Holborn

The entrance to this pub is hidden away from the main roads at the junction of 3 narrow streets