Sujet

Old Houses in Bermondsey Street, c1881. Creator: Henry Dixon & Son.

Légende

Old Houses in Bermondsey Street, c1881. Shops in south London. '...in the early part of this century, houses of this type were exceedingly common in the main thoroughfares and bye places of Southwark. They are good specimens of the houses of the time of Elizabeth [I] and somewhat later; the frame of massive timber, else mere shells of lath and plaster; but though often out of shape and leaning in all directions, wonderfully durable. At this time Bermondsey was an area of goods yards, biscuit making, leatherwork and tanneries, with nearly all the tanneries of London situated within its borders. Dixon's photograph includes two such leatherworkers, either shoe-makers or cobblers, standing at the entrance to their establishment. In Old and New London Edward Walford comments that though the area was dirty and unsavoury, it was however, prosperous. "But squalid as is their general appearance, they [Bermondsey and Wapping] abound in wealth, the fruits of industry and labour..."' Description by Alfred Marks. Signs for: W. Pettitt, wool rug manufacturer...Daily Chronicle...Daily News World-Wide...Standard - largest daily paper. A grocer's shop advertises butter and tea.

Date

1881

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A45_266

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

55.5Mo (7.7Mo) / 42.0cm x 33.1cm / 4960 x 3908 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building buildings London England people male job man men house houses architecture shopping shop shops industry society guy occupation British industrial photography grocers location Victorian century Britain profession grocery store B&W cobbler textile industry shoemaker shoe shop Architectural Feature Historic building gable 19th century gabled black & white black and white B W Southwark Grocery Shop gables nineteenth century Bermondsey Bermondsey Street TGN outside street photograph Henry Alfred Dixon Marks Henry Dixon & Son Dixon Henry & Son carbon print grocer's shop 19th-century Shoemaker's Royal Academy of Arts Society for Photographing Relics of Old London Henry Dixon Alfred Marks