Old
London Maps
Free access
to scores of rare and detailed maps, plans, articles, information and
views of medieval, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century
London for the genealogist, family historian, student and the curious.
The
Auction Mart, Bartholomew Lane and Throgmorton Street
Constructed
in the early nineteenth century, the auction mart served
to alleviate the "promiscuous" advertisements
of sales through daily journals, and provided a means
whereby "prompt information connected to the sale
of any or every denomination of property - freehold, copyhold,
lifehold, and leasehold estates of every description -
as well annuities, debentures, advowsons, interests in
possessions, securities, shares in canals, docks, railroads,
waterworks, insurance, patents, theatres, literary societies,
farming stock, farming implements, utensils of manufacture,
household goods, linens, jewels, pictures, prints ..."
The list is endless. The auction mart was a busy place.
