View of Upper Marsh, Waterloo, looking east from the corner with Royal Street. A two-storey corner shop with attics has advertisements in the windows for Wills Woodbines cigarettes, Gold Flake tobacco, Lyons Tea, Players Weights cigarettes, Players Navy Cuts cigarettes, and a hanging sign for British Oak Shag tobacco. On a news stand on the pavement the Daily Herald, suggesting to "Take Her to the Woman's Fair Olympia", at which factory workers modelled the latest fashions from famous designers, as well as homes and gardens displays. A handcart is outside on Royal Street. Along Upper Marsh is a two-storey terrace with attics and semi-basements. In the distance on the corner of Stangate Street is a three-storey terrace with a corner dairy. Until the eighteenth century the term Lambeth Marsh was applied to most of the parish of Lambeth north of the church, but as the area began to be developed it came to be used more specifically for the road across the marsh to St George's Fields, the road now known as Upper Marsh and Lower Marsh. The buildings on Royal Street were destroyed by bombing in World War II, and this site is now a green space in front of the Canterbury House block of flats.
