Title

Neath Place, London, c1900. Artist: John Galt

Caption

Neath Place, London, c1900. A run down street with three barrows left deserted in the road. Galt came to London in 1890 to work as a missionary for the London City Mission. In the early 1900s he took a series of photographs, mainly of the East End, which he had made into lantern slides to illustrate lectures publicising the work of the Mission. Galt sought to show that though there was great poverty in the East End, the people were not sub-human, as was popularly imagined by the middle-classes, but ordinary folk trying to do their best under difficult circumstances.
Museum of London

Date

1900

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Museum of London

Reference

HRM19A83_394

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,8Mb (1,4Mb) / 14,2in x 14,7in / 4267 x 4410 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building buildings London England female women woman people house street lane avenue poor poverty location century run down lady concept terraced house B&W slum MONOCHROME Barrow black & white black and white B W 1900s 20th century Museum of London Neath Place TGN John Galt Rev John Galt Galt John