Oxford Arms Inn, Oxford Arms Passage, Warwick Lane, City of London, UK (b/w photo)

Oxford Arms Inn, Oxford Arms Passage, Warwick Lane, City of London. Alfred and John Bool (1850-1933) of Pimlico photographed the Oxford Arms Inn, an increasingly rare survival of a galleried coaching inn, for the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London when the future of the building was uncertain. The elevated view, capturing the dome and towers of St Paul's Cathedral, was taken from a window of the Central Criminal Court. The record value of this photograph and others in the series was realised just three years laterwhen in 1878 the Oxford Arms was demolished, making way for a range of houses built for the Minor Canons of St Paul's by the architect Ewan Christian. Carbon print.