Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Size:large slicing through the existing urban

slicing through the existing urban landscape

George Davison Reid photographed this view towards Coventry Street from Piccadilly Circus

with London City Airport and Canary Wharf being built on converted docklands

Section 22 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

Poster of a women in a land army uniform carrying a hoe

Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Size:large slicing through the existing urbanAn illustration of Bishopsgate Street from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. People can be seen gathered in the Sir Paul Pindar Stout House. The building had originally been built c. 1599 as a mansion for Sir Paul Pindar, a merchant and diplomat whose wealth in 1639 was estimated at 236,000. However he died in debt and by the 1780s the mansion had become a tavern. It was pulled down in 1890 and the carved oak front is