Title

Market Court, Kensington High Street, London, c1895

Caption

Market Court, Kensington High Street, London, c1895. The south side of Kensington High Street, photographed with its inhabitants just three years prior to its demolition. The wooden cladding is coming away from the building and the windows are broken. Courts such as this one were frequently over-crowded with many families living in cramped and insanitary conditions.

Date

1895

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19A77_486

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,0Mb (1,5Mb) / 15,3in x 13,7in / 4583 x 4121 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building buildings London England female women woman people male man men family street housing guy lane avenue overcrowding poor poverty location century run down lady concept B&W MONOCHROME 19th century black & white black and white B W Kensington Kensington and Chelsea nineteenth century English Heritage Kensington High Street Market Court TGN photograph Unknown photograph