Title

'The Dust-Heaps, Somers Town

Caption

'The Dust-Heaps, Somers Town, in 1836', (c1876). Somers Town became a dense shanty town, surrounded on several sides by brickfields and dust heaps. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]

Date

1836

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F23_043

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,0Mb (3,3Mb) / 17,5in x 12,9in / 5251 x 3859 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors city urban building buildings London England female women woman people male work man men hospital house houses industry country guy British English pile location century Britain lady concept georgian terraced house United Kingdom B&W Camden MONOCHROME publication Working Class Day 19th century black & white black and white B W working-class nineteenth century dust history historic The Print Collector kiln Smallpox Hospital social class TGN outside working engraving portrait Old and New London shanty town Unknown Edward Walford Co Edward Walford Somers Town Cassell Petter Petter & Galpin North London dust heap dustyard engraving portrait