Images Dated 11th January 2019

Old Almshouses in the Kingsland Road Turned Into a Furniture Museum, c1935. Creator: Unknown

Old Almshouses in the Kingsland Road Turned Into a Furniture Museum, c1935. The Geffrye Museum of the Home on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, north-east London, is housed in 18th-century almshouses which were built in 1714 by Sir Robert Geffrye, a former Lord Mayor of London and Master of the Ironmongers Company. The front facade, seen here, has a statue of him in the niche below the clock. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]

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The Grenadier in Wilton Mews, Where Coachmen Drink No More, c1935. Creator: Unknown

"The Grenadier" in Wilton Mews, Where Coachmen Drink No More, c1935. Public house in Belgravia, London, built in 1720 as the officers mess for the senior infantry regiment of the British army, the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. The building was located in a courtyard of their barracks. It opened to the public in 1818 as The Guardsman, and was renamed in honour of the Grenadier Guards actions in the Battle of Waterloo (1815). It was frequented by the Duke of Wellington and King George IV. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]

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In Devereux Court, Full of Eighteenth-Century Associations, c1935. Creator: Walter Benington

In Devereux Court, Full of Eighteenth-Century Associations, c1935. Devereux Court in Westminster, central London, with signs advertising Claymore and Dewar's whisky. On this narrow pedestrian street were the Grecian Coffee House and Tom's Coffee House, the heart of London's literary scene in the 17th and 18th centuries. Sarah Mapp the Bonesetter carried on her medical trade here, some of her operations in the presence of Sir Hans Sloane. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]

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