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Underground overground: London’s Victorian viaducts

Subterranean Oddbins inside the Holborn viaduct During the 1860s, London was physically transformed: gigantic new sewers were built, underground railways constructed, new streets and overground...

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Cathedral of sewage: the Abbey Mills pumping station

The Abbey Mills pumping station from the Greenway The Abbey Mills Pumping Station (1865-68) was the last to be constructed in the first phase of London’s main drainage project in the 1860s,...

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Civic space? The Barton arcade, Manchester

1: Barton arcade from St Anne's Square Walter Benjamin recognized in the first arcades of Paris – built at the turn of the 19th century – the beginnings of iron construction that would culminate in the...

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The Victorian arcades of Leeds

County arcade, Leeds, 1897-1900 In the 1890s, the municipal government of Leeds was vigorously promoting a new civic identity for the city, especially after the town was granted city status in 1893....

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Victorian bazaars

The introduction of shopping arcades in Britain at the beginning of the nineteenth century coincided with another new retail space, the bazaar. More exclusively a building type confined to...

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A seaside icon: the Blackpool Tower

1. The Blackpool Tower in 2011 By the 1890s, Blackpool was one of the fastest-growing resorts in Britain, with its working-class reputation firmly established. More than any other of its buildings, the...

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Paddington station: function & fantasy

William Powell Frith, ‘The Railway Station’, 1862 (Royal Holloway, University of London) Paddington station (1852-54) became an iconic symbol of the Victorian railway largely on account of its...

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Meta-ornament: railway tracks

Tracks on the southern approach to Manchester from Stockport According to Walter Benjamin, railway tracks had a ‘peculiar and unmistakeable dream world’ attached to them, one that, for early railway...

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Walking the girdle (part 1)

1. Nine-mile walk around inner Manchester and Salford (shown in green) 2. 1844 map of Manchester and Salford included in Engels’s ‘The Condition of the Working Class in England’ In 1844, Engels...

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Victorian dragons

1. Kirkgate market hall, Leeds, 1901-04. Leeds’s Kirkgate market hall is one the best surviving Victorian retail buildings. Opened in 1904, it still retains much of its original decoration, including...

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