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Wednesday 22nd Feb 2017, an Old Flames visit to the Foundlings Hospital
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Our route and geotag log |
Russian Buskers at Farringdon |
The building's design drawing made into Ceramic model |
A typical alley |
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I just missed the really big bite |
My Lane |
A "Rookery" was a slum in Victorian times. This building is now a boutique hotel |
"24hr Off licence" |
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Who ate all the pies? I don't know how he got into the shot! Cropping required |
Two models phone boxes |
Smithfield wholesale meat market |
Old ironwork |
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English Dragon on the gateway |
Police Horses |
Preserved shop in Cloth Fair |
St Bartholomew the Great's entrance |
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St Bartholomew the Great |
Cloth Fair |
Sweet jars |
Another passage beside the Rising Sun |
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A door for short people |
 Old Red Cow |
Thrown together |
Founders Hall coat of arms in Code Stone (Iron Founders) |
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Towards St Bartholomew the Great church |
Italian Coffee shop in Long Lane |
Narrow Street |
Long view of Charterhouse Museum |
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Model of the original Monastery which became private house, school, almshouse now a museum |
Steve and Helen |
The cloisters |
The Chapel with peaceful chanting playing |
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Window over the altar |
Icon |
Thomas Sutton Monument showing the Poor Brothers in Church etc |
A Modern religious painting |
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Tree of Life? |
A wooden crucifixion |
The buyer after the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII and the Cistercians were thrown out |
Bas relief of Mary, Martha etc |
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One of the Friars I guess |
 Votive lights |
Art |
 An Old English bible before Tyndale. |
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Central Quad |
 Looking out to the Chapel |
 Still finishing the Museum entrance |
 The Gatehouse |
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Queen Anne house |
 Narrow alley |
 Museum of the Order of St John, St Johns Lane |
 The front |
 Side door |
 Street Art |
 Jerusalem Tavern 1720 (restored) |
 Workers |
 On Clerkenwell Green |
 "Grub on the Green" |
 The Horseshoe |
 Peabody Estate |
 Change of level |
 MacDonalds House? |
 "The Bowler" pub for lunch |
 Diners in reflection |
 The Dining area, usually for viewing Sport. We might have had a better choice of food at the "Betsey Trotwood" but it was not open yet |
 A thin "Department store" |
 The Apple Tree ,Mount Pleasant |
 Doughty Mews |
 Listed Cranes? |
 From Hell? A vintage Buick |
 See the next photo |
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 Thomas Coram at the Foundling Museum |
 Waiting in the cafe with a wall dedicated to all the world's famous orphans |
 Staircase from the origin hospital with the sound of a Blackbird singing |
 Hogarth's oil painting of Guards after Culloden given to London's first Public Art gallery here |
 Ragamuffin |
 Automaton which cost 20p to activate |
 Apprentice Guide listening in |
 Well dressed poor |
 Sea Battle |
 Corals Hospital uniform |
 Handel |
 The Picture Gallery moved from the original building |
 Images of Handel from the Gerald Coke Handel Collection |
 A stern face |
 Jolly Thomas Coram the force behind the foundation |
 Orphans with attitude from the "Fair Play" exhibition |
 The old Foundlings Hospital shown on a Chinese bowl |
 Old view of Charterhouse |
 The Court Room moved from the original building. Our guide beside the grate. |
 Fireplace with built in picture frame |
 A corner of the Court Room |
 Old Bethlem Hospital |
 Leaving her baby with the nuns |
 Studying |
 Steve listening to our guide |
 Hogarth's "Gin Lane". The engraving made him the money |
 Volcanic Intrusion? Judd Street Open Space |
 Italian Coffee Shop Long lane |
 Iris Reticulata Bruswick Square Gardens |
 Smithfield Ironwork |
 The Horseshoe again |
 Another alley |
 Paul? |
 St Pancras |
 On the train home |
 My Geotags |
