Shop in Lower Marsh
Shop in Lower Marsh
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Shop in Lower Marsh
SC_PHL_01_251_80_3901 (Collage 90322)
London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
View of 27 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, on the corner with Frazier Street. 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 mid nineteenth-century. A three-storey corner building with a shop on the ground floor: COHEN Outfitters and Clothiers. Hanging outside the shop are coats and jackets, and a stack of suitcases is in the doorway behind a tricycle. A man is bending down to look at the coats. To the left, prams and pushchairs are for sale, one for 25s. In 1895 this shop was a clothiers, owned by Cartwright and Son. On the street corner stand two women, one with a pram and a toddler. A bicycle is at the curb and a man is walking past. Across Frazier Street, on the side wall of number 26, are two painted advertisements for Saloon Cars to hire with chauffeur and 'Private Garages to Let'. The buildings remain and number 27 is now a small supermarket.
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