Cheapside 1823 Alfred Henry Bool Photograph taken 29

Photograph taken 29

the Romans to the Republic of the Isle of Dogs

so carts and vans would take some of the imported products to the railways to be sent countrywide

Two fishermen drag nets

while the proprietress is washing up

Cheapside 1823 Alfred Henry Bool Photograph taken 29Cheapside, 1823. Coloured lithograph. General, bird's eye view of a busy street at Cheapside. Richard Rush, the American ambassador, wondered at the City's busy streets. He wrote in 1817 of the pavements 'crowded with people' and the 'coal waggons and others as large, carts, trucks, vehicles of every sort, loaded in every way . . . in two close lines, like great tides, going reverse ways, and reaching farther than the eye can see.'