A Gin Shop 19th century Toys Cheapside and the City of

Cheapside and the City of London were heavily damaged in the Blitz

Reid photographed activity along the banks of the River Thames extensively during the late 1920s and early 1930s

There is steam and sail powered river traffic in view

at number 94

Covent Garden Piazza and Market

A Gin Shop 19th century Toys Cheapside and the City ofA Gin Shop. Ink and watercolour over pencil. A Gin Shop where a burly and ugly landlord pours out a glass of gin for a coquettish and brazen woman who is well dressed and makes direct eye contact. At the bar there are two other women, one who is visibly malnourished with a child, and a man who leers at the first woman. Behind the bar are many barrels of gin with taps and a number of glass bottles with stoppers. Gin was one of the worst social evils of