Jacobs Island Rotherhithe 1887 Frame:black Section 12 of the original

Section 12 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

To commemorate the 350th anniversary of the fire

Sidney Crockett and William H

Section 34 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty

It was pulled down in 1890 and the carved oak front is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum

Jacobs Island Rotherhithe 1887 Frame:black Section 12 of the originalIllustration to Dickens' novel: 'the strangest of the many strange places in London'. Signed (with monogram) and dated 1887. This watercolour features Jacob's Island, Rotherhithe. Dickens wrote about this area in Oliver Twist , ' In such a neighbourhood, beyond Dockhead in the Borough of Southwark, stands Jacob's Island, surrounded by a muddy ditch, six or eight feet deep and 15 or 20 wide when the tide is in, once called Mill Pond, but known in the