London 2009

Bleeding Heart Yard features in the Charles Dickens novel Little Dorrit as the home of the Plornish family. Dickens wrote of it: [It was] a place much changed in feature and in fortune, yet with some relish of ancient greatness about it. Two or three mighty stacks of chimneys, and a few large dark rooms which had escaped being walled and subdivided out of the recognition of their old proportions, gave the Yard a character. It was inhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyramids; but there was a family sentimental feeling prevalent in the Yard, that it had a character. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Offices and trendy restaurants here now. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Bleeding Heart Yard See where this picture was taken. [?]

Designed by Christopher Wren, 1666. This building, reputed to have been from designs by Sir Christopher Wren, was erected as a church by Lord Hatton to serve the needs of the neighbourhood after St Andrews Holborn had been destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. It was adapted for use as a charity school about 1696, was severely damaged by an incendiary bomb during the 1939-45 war and has since been reconstructed internally to provide offices. The original facades have been restored. The figures in eighteenth century costumes were taken down and sent for safe keeping during the war to Bradfield College, Berkshire. They were replaced in their original positions as a memorial to the former use of the building. knowledgeoflondon.com/schools.html See where this picture was taken. [?]

You really have to use your imagination for this one. This is the site of the metropolitan police office where Oliver Twist was brought before the magistrate Mr Fang. Nancy also came here, at the request of Fagin, tapping the cell doors with her keys to try to locate Oliver. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Clerkenwell Road. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Waiting outside while the funeral mass was going on inside St Peter's Italian Catholic Church, Clerkenwell Road. See where this picture was taken. [?]

The crowd brought Oliver Twist down Herbal Hill after having captured him on suspicion of stealing Mr Brownlow's handkerchief. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Named after David Copperfield's aunt. See where this picture was taken. [?]

I don't know what exactly I was expecting, but it sure wasn't this stone hole, filled with rubble, covered with glass and littered with cigarettes. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Mr Bumble appeared in court here in Oliver Twist. This is on the west side of Clerkenwell Green, which really isn't a green as it's paved over. In Oliver Twist, the Artful Dodger steals Mr Brownlow's handkerchief from his pocket by a bookstall somewhere around Clerkenwell Green. See where this picture was taken. [?]

A show of fashions made with reused vintage fabric, outside St James Clerkenwell. The designer is Lena Santana. See where this picture was taken. [?]

St James Clerkenwell. The tombstone of Ellen Steinberg and her four children, murdered by her husband in 1834. He then killed himself; he is buried in a pauper's grave in Ray Street.

Peabody Estate, Clerkenwell. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Peabody Estate, Clerkenwell. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Peabody Estate, Clerkenwell. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Thought to be the "narrow court" from which the Artful Dodger, Oliver Twist and Charley Bates emerged onto Clerkenwell Green. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Bakers Row and Farringdon Road. An old street sign, a new one, and a weird wire bird. See where this picture was taken. [?]