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City Limits cover designed by David King<\/p><\/div>\n

Late 1980s I worked as a magazine layout artist for City Limits Magazine in a building on Clerkenwell Green, near Sessions House – at that time – the Freemason’s HQ. I made some illustrations for The Guardian newspaper based back of Farringdon Road and attended classes in bookmaking at the London College of Printing buildings in Back Hill.<\/p>\n

Wandering curiously through the narrow lanes and passages past the Telescope shop on Farringdon Road I found the intriguingly named Bleeding Heart Yard and a first floor art supply shop where I bought bottles of jewel coloured Dr Martins drawing inks some of which I still use to create these designs.
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\nI wandered through the web of the internet this morning to find the name of the art shop – T.N. Lawrence & Son which led me to further links to ‘Oxford Market’ (early Oxford Steet) Marylebone, copperplate printing, William Blake and St Ives Cornwall! …as well as a long history of craftsmanship and printing in this area thanks to the very informative National Portrait Galleries directory of suppliers. (click link to read even more!)<\/p>\n

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\ndiamonds and saffron
\nHATTON GARDEN ~ BLEEDING HEART YARD<\/p>\n

This is the story of the ‘Hatton Garden ~ Bleeding Heart Yard’ design. Part of Frances Nutt London Garden Collection.
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\nHatton Garden was originally the site of the medieval palace, gardens and orchard of the Bishops of Ely\u2019s City residence ~ an open green space for hundreds of years ~ very much in contrast to the densely populated centre enclosed by #LondonWall not far to the East, across the #RiverFleet which flowed in a valley nearby. It was developed as a new residential district in the #Restoration period, around 1659 and 1694 and lay just outside the official city boundary.\u2028\u2028In Shakespeare\u2019s Richard III, Gloucester mentions the delicious strawberries in the Bishop\u2019s garden, and in Walter Thornberry\u2019s Old and New London, published in the late 19th century, the significance of Saffron Hill is explained. This was once the most pleasant part of the Bishop\u2019s gardens, and its name came from the crops of saffron, which supposedly grew there. Saffron Hill ran from Field Lane into Vine Street, which recalls the vineyard of old Ely Place.
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\npossible theft of a #PocketSquare!
\nillustration by George Cruikshank for Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist
\ncover of Little Dorrit<\/p>\n

In 1850 it was described as a squalid neighbourhood, the home of paupers and thieves. In #CharlesDickens\u2019s 1837 novel #OliverTwist, the #ArtfulDodger leads Oliver to Fagin\u2019s den in Field Lane, the southern extension of #SaffronHill:\u2028\u201ca dirty and more wretched place he [Oliver] had never seen. The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours\u201d.\u2028\u2028”[Bleeding Heart Yard 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” (Littler Dorrit by Charles Dickens)
\nHatton Garden has had its fair share of scandals along its long and fascinating history, perhaps most shockingly the tale of #LadyElizabethHatton and her tragic death. One night in 1926, Lady Hatton had been seen out dancing with an unidentified man. In the early hours of the morning, in a yard just off Greville Street, Lady Hatton\u2019s body was found strewn upon the cold cobbled ground.<\/p>\n

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\nArthur Rackham
\nR. H. Barham’s The Ingoldsby Legends, a collection of poems and stories first published in Bentley’s Miscellany beginning in 1837. Tells the story of The House-Warming: A Legend Of Bleeding-Heart Yard, Lady Hatton, wife of Sir Christopher Hatton, makes a pact with the devil to secure wealth, position, and a mansion in Holborn. During the housewarming of the mansion, the devil dances with her, then tears out her heart, which is found, still beating, in the courtyard the next morning. It is from this legend, together with a case of mistaken identity, that the myth of Lady Elizabeth Hatton’s murder \u2014 wife, not of Christopher, but of William Hatton \u2014 was born.
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\nOral historian #RachelLichtenstein, one of the few prominent female figures operating within contemporary #psychogeography gives a fascinating account in her wonderful book #DiamondStreet. Hatton Garden is where her grandfather and her parents worked. As a student she helped out at\u00a0the family store, writing out price labels for jewellery and dropping off supplies for Orthodox and Hasidic diamond dealers.<\/p>\n

She describes ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean rivers and forgotten palaces. Telling stories of sewer flushers, artists, goldsmiths, geologists and visionaries. Later she goes down into the sewers of the Fleet, the second largest river in Roman times, to divine the area\u2019s subterranean essence.<\/p>\n

the ancient walls have so many stories to tell…..<\/p>\n

#HattonGarden #BleedingHeartYard
\n#SaffronHill #LeatherLane
\n#ClerkenwellGreen #HerbalHill
\n#KarlMarx #WilliamBlake
\n#DrMartins
\n#NewlynCopperWorks<\/p>\n

materials : 100% silk twill
\nsize: 6 x 105cms
\nmade in Britain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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