Pickle Herring Street: 1872 Type:art print Section 14 of the original

Section 14 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

The section covers the area between York Mews in the North West

despite an eight-year break due to the First World War

This wooden pirate ship encourages imagination

The boards had to be removed each night and replaced again in the morning

Pickle Herring Street: 1872 Type:art print Section 14 of the originalBook illustration showing Pickle Herring Street from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Jerrold writes of his visit to Pickle Herring Street with Dor: 'At the cost of sundry blows and much buffeting from the hastening crowds we make notes of Pickle Herring Street: now pushed to the road, and now driven against the wall. The hard visaged men, breathlessly competing for dear life, glance, mostly with an eye of wondering