Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Size:large George Davison Reid photographed this

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

slicing through the existing urban landscape

Section 22 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

This technological development meant that photographic negatives

A traditional fair has been held here at Easter for over 150 years

Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Size:large George Davison Reid photographed thisAn 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