Old house, Fore Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View of a timber-framed house on the corner of Fore Street and Milton Street: 'This house, of a type very rare in London — made rarer still by the demolition of this subject — dates probably from before the Great Fire … This house stood on the corner of Milton S...
Old house, Great Winchester Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the courtyard towards the entrance of 'the residence of a great merchant of the beginning of the 18th century.' A notice affixed to the building states that this 'valuable site will shortly be cleared for rebuilding.'
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the alley towards No. 10 Austin-Friars, with the entrance to Austin-Friars Passage in the left foreground: 'The house, No. 10, is a good example of the genuine Queen Anne style; its date, 1704, is seen on the rain-pipe.'
College Street. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along College Street (with Little College Street leading off to the left) towards the tower of St Michael's, Paternoster Royal, rising in the background. The doorway of Innholders' Hall is in the left foreground.
Doorway, College Hill. Photographer: Dixon and Son, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of 'one of the doorways of a house, built, probably, for a merchant's residence. From its style it may well be from Wren's designs, but I have not been able to find any documentary evidence of this.'
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of 'the Gatehouse, a building of James I,' here occupied by barber's shop: 'The statement conveyed by the inscription surrounding the picture of a 'hair-cutting saloon,' that this was 'formerly the Palace of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey' — not mer...