View of Lower Marsh
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View of Lower Marsh
View of Lower Marsh
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SC_PHL_01_251_77_1062 (Collage 90319)
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London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
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View of Lower Marsh, Waterloo, looking north east. Shown on James De La Feuille's Map of London, c1690, as a lane lined with cottages and small holdings crossing Lambeth Marsh, it was known as Lambeth Marsh until the middle of the nineteenth century when it became Lambeth Lower Marsh. By the end of the nineteenth century, it was just known as Lower Marsh. Lined with shops, it has also had a market in the street since the nineteenth century. A terrace of three and four-storey buildings with shops on the ground floor, with awnings over the front. On the left, number 119 is a hat shop advertising: One Price 2/6d. A man stands in the doorway wearing a waistcoat, white apron and bowler a hat; possibly the proprietor Mr George Arthur Dann. Large gas lamps hang from the first floor. Number 118 has large signs on the first and second floors for Danish Dairy, Butter Direct, although at this time the shop was a butchers owned by John Townsend. Number 117 is a narrow building with a confectioners shop owned by Guerine Carobetti. At number 116 is William Walter a fruiterer, at number 115 Bennett Son & Company, tripod manufacturer. Number 114 is Eel House proprietor Henry Carpenter and at number 113 is Edwin Thomas, family butcher. Number 112, with a large sign on the second floor is W. H. Smith and, on the first floor, a sign for 'Soup' at dining rooms owned by William Day. At number 111 is James Forbes & Company, herbalists. Number 110 is occupied by Alfred Cockrill, butcher. Across James Street (now Launcelot Street) is number 109, occupied by Levi Quartermaine, pork butcher. Number 108 is occupied by Thomas George Hawkes, cheesemonger and number 107 buy a public house called The Three Compasses with landlord Thomas Denzil. Number 114 to 118 and 98-107 were destroyed by bombing in World War II, and the sites have been redeveloped. The other buildings remain.
View of Lower Marsh, Waterloo, looking north east. Shown on James De La Feuille's Map of London, c1690, as a lane lined with cottages and small holdings crossing Lambeth Marsh, it was known as Lambeth Marsh until the middle of the nineteenth century when it became Lambeth Lower Marsh. By the end of the nineteenth century, it was just known as Lower Marsh. Lined with shops, it has also had a market in the street since the nineteenth century. A terrace of three and four-storey buildings with shops on the ground floor, with awnings over the front. On the left, number 119 is a hat shop advertising: One Price 2/6d. A man stands in the doorway wearing a waistcoat, white apron and bowler a hat; possibly the proprietor Mr George Arthur Dann. Large gas lamps hang from the first floor. Number 118 has large signs on the first and second floors for Danish Dairy, Butter Direct, although at this time the shop was a butchers owned by John Townsend. Number 117 is a narrow building with a confectioners shop owned by Guerine Carobetti. At number 116 is William Walter a fruiterer, at number 115 Bennett Son & Company, tripod manufacturer. Number 114 is Eel House proprietor Henry Carpenter and at number 113 is Edwin Thomas, family butcher. Number 112, with a large sign on the second floor is W. H. Smith and, on the first floor, a sign for 'Soup' at dining rooms owned by William Day. At number 111 is James Forbes & Company, herbalists. Number 110 is occupied by Alfred Cockrill, butcher. Across James Street (now Launcelot Street) is number 109, occupied by Levi Quartermaine, pork butcher. Number 108 is occupied by Thomas George Hawkes, cheesemonger and number 107 buy a public house called The Three Compasses with landlord Thomas Denzil. Number 114 to 118 and 98-107 were destroyed by bombing in World War II, and the sites have been redeveloped. The other buildings remain.
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