View of Moss Alley
View of Moss Alley
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Record No
114720
Title
View of Moss Alley
Description
Looking south down Moss Alley towards Sumner Street, Bankside. Four children and two women holding toddlers stand on either side of a narrow passageway looking at the camera. The building to the left is Travers Wharf whilst on the right are two and three-storey houses with wooden shutters at ground-level windows. According to Charles Booth's London Poverty map of 1898-9, Moss Alley and surrounding streets were areas of the poorest class, semi-criminal and in chronic want. The housing in Moss Alley and environs was demolished to allow expansion of the existing 1891 Bankside Power Station, as London's need for electricity grew. The Power Station was closed in 1981 and the building redeveloped as the Tate Modern Gallery, which opened in 2000.
Date of execution
1912
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_372_82_2691
Accession No
4580c
London picture map location
Exact
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