View of Wilmott's Buildings
View of Wilmott's Buildings
"long lane" 157 items
Record No
116048
Title
View of Wilmott's Buildings
Description
View of Wilmott's Buildings, Long Lane, Southwark. Long Lane was known as White Street for most of the eighteenth and nineteenth century and the land was owned by Friars School in Bangor between 1557 and 1895. Wilmotts Buildings included this narrow flagstoned passageway running north from Long Lane, where it had previously been known as Boar's Head Alley, and Sheers Alley after taverns located from the sixteenth century at the entrance. Wilmott's Buildings passageway continued east to west and this view is west towards Bangor Court. Two-storey flat-fronted terraced houses either side have wooden shutters on the ground-floor windows. On the right, a young man and woman smile at the camera. On the left, a group of people includes a man in shirt sleeves, two young women and a young man. In front, a group of children includes a girl holding a baby. The boy wearing a cap in the foreground is barefoot. In 1902, George H. Duckworth noted after a walk with Sergeant Bowles that disbursements due to the demolitions of the courts in the Borough High Street had increased overcrowding, and that Wilmotts Buildings was poor, but not shady like Colliers Rents (a nearby court). The site is now a modern block of flats.
Date of execution
1900
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_990
London picture map location
Exact
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