View of Bangor Court
View of Bangor Court
Record No
116050
Title
View of Bangor Court
Description
View of Bangor Court, 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. Bangor Court is a narrow passageway running north from Long Lane, where it had previously been known as White Hind Alley, named after the tavern on the corner. It was leased to Walter Bexley up to 1571, together with tenements in the alley let in 1540, at a penny a week. A narrow flagstoned alleyway with two and three-storey flat-fronted terraced houses, with wooden shutters on the ground-floor windows. The wall at the end of the alley is the boundary of St George's Churchyard. To the left a man in a bowler hat stands with a woman wearing a bonnet and three young girls. Behind a dustbin stand a group of children with one girl holding a baby. On the right, a costermonger's hand barrow lies on its side. 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 Bangor Court was poor. He mentioned that the churchyard was used by the poor of the area as a recreation ground. The site is now part of the extended St George's Gardens public park.
Date of execution
1900
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Notes
This image was featured in the 'Victorian London in Photographs' exhibition held at LMA in 2016.
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_365_991
London picture map location
Exact
Subjects
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