Old Houses Aldgate c.1882 A9271 A decade or so after

A decade or so after Reid photographed this exterior

In the foreground is a low table with an array of skates

but Tate & Lyle was more than just a factory

Nazneen Khan-Østrem has a cosmopolitan background herself

This image shows a photographer taking a picture through the railings at Admiralty Arch the day before the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Old Houses Aldgate c.1882 A9271 A decade or so afterOld Houses, Aldgate, c. 1882. These houses were demolished in 1882 to make way for the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Aldgate to Tower Hill. This photograph was commissioned by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London to form part of a permanent visual record of historic buildings threatened with alteration or possible demolition in the 1870s and 80s.