The Black Friar, Queen Victoria Street, London 1975
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A 1975 view across Blackfriars junction with the unmistakable Black Friar pub standing proudly in the centre. To the left is Blackfriars Court, once known as Little Water Lane, which originally sat tightly hemmed in by neighbouring buildings. Those structures had been cleared by the time this photo was taken, creating the conspicuous open gap seen here. At the rear of the pub once stood the Old Times Building, headquarters of The Times newspaper — by the 1970s already demolished and later replaced with what is now the Bank of New York building. On the right, rebuilding work is underway at Blackfriars Station, part of a long sequence of modernisations that reshaped the whole junction. With St Paul’s Cathedral rising in the background, this image captures the Blackfriars area in a moment of dramatic transition — while the pub itself remains one of the few constants.
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