View of the manufactory and warehouse of David Hurst, clothiers, at 15 to 16 Bartholomew Close, City of London, looking north. The two-storey brick building is glazed at the ground floor with security bars, and casement and sash windows at the first floor with flat gauged arches. Seen with a decorative pattress plate and a bar from which the business name board once hung, all below a simple masonry parapet. The surrounding buildings were extensively damaged during the bombing of World War II leaving vacant plots and ruins, either side. The empty plot, to the left, is secured by a chain-link boundary fence, topped with barbed wire, seen with stored building materials stacked against the end wall of the building. The plot to the right is a makeshift car park, seen with space numbers marked on the wall. Later buildings are visible behind, including the 44-storey Lauderdale Tower of the Grade II listed Barbican Estate, centre. The building and empty plots at the end of the cul-de-sac, have since been developed with the modern office building, '200 Aldersgate' on the new Albion Way, named after 'Albion Buildings' which formerly occupied an adjacent site.