View of Lower Marsh
View of Lower Marsh
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View of Lower Marsh
SC_PHL_01_251_80_3903 (Collage 90323)
London Metropolitan Archives: LCC Photograph Library
View of Lower Marsh, Waterloo, looking south west. 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. In the foreground are market stalls, including a wet fish stall. A number of men and women are inspecting the stalls, and a little girl is pushing a dolls pram. On the left, number 59 is Boots the Chemist. Adjacent is a vacant site where numbers 55-58 were destroyed by bombing in World War II, and on the site is a caravan. Two small boys are playing and a man is walking past reading a newspaper. Numbers 50-54 form a three-storey terrace with shops on the ground floor. Number 54 has a painted sign on the front wall for A. Harris Ladies and Gents Tailor. In 1895 this was occupied by a beer retailer proprietor Charles Hope. Across Coral Street is another three-storey terrace; number 42-48 with shops on the ground floor and, in the distance, Truscon House is a commercial building on the corner with Tanswell Steet. Numbers 50-62 (including the vacant site) have been redeveloped as an open space. Numbers 42-48 remain, as does Truscon House which is now an office for the charity Christian Aid.
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