Warehouses by the Thames: 1872 27.120/1au Westminster Hall and Westminster Abbey

Westminster Hall and Westminster Abbey

from the very poor lowest class mainly in the east end (but with some surprising enclaves in the fashionable west) right up to the wealthy upper classes in Marylebone and Mayfair

Holland Grove in the North East

1930: View of Tower Bridge

they (the poor) are the workless of a work-a day London - born in idleness to die in the workhouse

Warehouses by the Thames: 1872 27.120/1au Westminster Hall and Westminster AbbeyBook illustration of warehouses by the Thames, from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. The scene shows various pulleys, cranes and winches used to raise cargo from the riverside into the surrounding warehouses.