Sujet

The Artisan's Home, Spitalfields - the Coffee Room, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Artisan's Home, Spitalfields - the Coffee Room, 1850. 'The directors of the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes...have...extended their operations to one of the most crowded districts of Spitalfields; where they have undertaken the erection of a large building for single men...Any respectable single man of the working classes, on payment of three shillings...becomes a tenant for one week'. The coffee room is '...a spacious and well-lighted coffee-room, with an open roof of stained timbers, supported by cast-iron columns...The tables are arranged in boxes, and here is supplied coffee, or a more substantial meal, according to a fixed scale of charge...The structure has been erected from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr. William Beck, architect, by Mr. S. Grimsdell, builder'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A33_423

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,1Mo (4,7Mo) / 42,0cm x 33,5cm / 4960 x 3951 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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