A railway bridge crossing the Strand with St. Paul's in the distance
London
Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.
A railway bridge on the route from Holborn to Blackfrairs crossing Fleet Street with St. Paul's in the distance. The spire of St. Martin's appears in front of St. Paul's. London.
Here is the large Ludgate Hill Station of the Chatham and South Eastern Railway, opposite which, on the left, the prison of Bridewell (so called from the old miraculous Well of St. Bride or St. Bridget) stood, down to 1864. The site of the prison was once occupied by Bridewell Palace.
Ludgate Hill leads to St. Paul's Cathedral. [text accompanying photograph]
The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].
Last modified 7 November 2003