Showing posts with label London. Calvert's Buildings.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Calvert's Buildings.. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 November 2008


Such as this. Calvert's Buildings. In Fletcher's day, "a picturesque remnant of ancient Southwark - the medieval cottage enclosed by eighteenth-century houses in Calvert's Buildings. It reminds me always of a remark Dickens makes of an old house that seemed to have got itself in a corner, and got lost, when it was a young house and couldn't find its way out again.". A remnant of a remnant today, and a bit of a wound. The courtyard - now exposed to the West - is at the foot of Guy's tower in this picture.