Wq4/6069(20)

Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types)

View of a street-corner secondhand furniture shop, with two women posed on the pavement and goods laid out on the pavement: 'At the corner of Church Lane, Holborn, there was a second-hand furniture dealer, whose business was a cross between that of a shop and a street stall. The dealer was never satified unless the weather allowed him to disgorge nearly the whole of his stock into the middle of the street, a method which alone secured the approval and custom of his neighbours. As a matter of fact, the inhabitants of Church Lane were nearly all what I term 'street folks' — living, buying, selling, transacting all their business in the open street...' Between the taking of this photograph and the publication of the present work in 1881, most of the houses in this overcrowded area had been destroyed and 'the accompanying photograph eill, therefore, recall the entrance of Church Lane as it used to be in the olden time, and yet remained till the beginning of the year 1877.'