Pickle Herring Street: 1872 Type:art print St Dunstan's-in-the-West is on right

St Dunstan's-in-the-West is on right

This wooden pirate ship encourages imagination

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

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

Section 14 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

Pickle Herring Street: 1872 Type:art print St Dunstan's-in-the-West is on rightBook 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