Doorways in Bartholomew Close
Doorways in Bartholomew Close
Record No
38115
Title
Doorways in Bartholomew Close
Description
View of two front doors of 92 and 93 Bartholomew Close, City of London, looking west. The eight-panel timber door of number 92, right, is padlocked shut with a sign reading 'owing to expiration of the lease, Mr Herman (solicitor) has Removed to 2 Verulam Buildings Gray's Inn'. The six-panel timber door with a transom light above of number 93, has four separate letter boxes, one with a plate for 'R Palmers', spectacle manufacturer. Other businesses formerly located at the addresses include herbal soap, paper, and disinfectant manufacturers, along with Armstrong and Company, manufacturers agents. The pair of adjoining doorways have stone steps over the basement well to thresholds separated by wrought-iron railings, flanked by fluted pilasters, and a decorative cornice above, supported on brackets. The houses date from the seventeenth century, having replaced larger houses, and were at one time leased as a group of five houses together with 38, 39 and 40 Little Britain. The buildings, together with neighbouring buildings, are understood to have been demolished c1907 and replaced by a large warehouse occupied by Walter Charles Beetles and Company Limited, skirt manufactory, later, Templeton's carpet manufactory, Dundee's linoleum manufactory, and Chamberlain's carpet warehouse, and is currently a mixed-use development, '90 Bartholomew Close', after renovation in 2018.
Date of execution
1906
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_002_4425
London picture map location
Exact
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