Lost England – photographs from 1870 to 1930
Images of 19th- and 20th-century England show reality of rotting houses and poverty as well as grand old buildings. Philip Davies, an architectural historian, spent seven years trawling through the photographs, compiling the best 1,500 into a 558-page book entitled Lost England.
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Bigg Market, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1920. The town hall, in the middle, was demolished in 1973.
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Sunderland town hall, 1891 . It was demolished in 1971.
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Ward 6 at Leeds General Infirmary in 1895.
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The flooded Lake Street in New Hinksey, Oxfordshire in 1890.
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Mechanised farming in Hellidon, Northamptonshire, in 1902.
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Southport Opera House c1900. It was destroyed by fire in 1921.
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J Plater’s Cart, Van & Carriage Works, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, in 1903. The firm employed apprentices as young as 12.
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The junction of Steep Street and Trenchard Street, Bristol, in 1866.
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Children in a country lane in Dinton, Buckinghamshire in 1904.
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The construction of Manchester ship canal in 1889.
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Ironmongers of Maidenhead, Berkshire, 1900.
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Birmingham Small Arms Company, 1917.
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Women working at Cellular Clothing Company Ltd in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1902
Photograph: Lost England/REX/Shutterstock
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Travelling musicians with monkey in Taplow in Buckinghamshire in 1885.
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The Picture House, Liverpool, in 1912. It is now under threat of demolition.
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Lost England 1870 -1930 by Philip Davies.
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