Workers on the Silent Highway c. 1878 Size:small Lining: matte nylon

Lining: matte nylon

horns and spices

This view shows the entrance to the Brewery in Park Street with the office block at the rear of the yard

The Monument from the East

Porters and dockers wheeling sack barrows in from the quayside halted briefly for John H Avery to take this photo

Workers on the Silent Highway c. 1878 Size:small Lining: matte nylonTwo men aboard a Thames sailing barge in mid river. The image is taken from a series of 37 photographs published in the book, 'Street Life in London' (1877), with text written by John Thomson and the journalist Adolphe Smith. After taking photographs in the Far East, Thomson opened a portrait studio in London in 1875. Two years later he collaborated with the journalist, Adolphe Smith, to produce 'Street Life in London'. The book was conceived as a