Old Houses Aldgate c.1882 A9271 Vauxhall Gardens poster

Vauxhall Gardens poster

Panoramic 'view from the staircase and the upper part of the Pavilion in the Colosseum'

A decade or so after Reid photographed this exterior

George Davison Reid photographed this scene looking upstream from Lower Custom House Stairs

Old Houses Aldgate c.1882 A9271 Vauxhall Gardens posterOld Houses, Aldgate, c. 1882. These houses were demolished in 1882 to make way for the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Aldgate to Tower Hill. This photograph was commissioned by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London to form part of a permanent visual record of historic buildings threatened with alteration or possible demolition in the 1870s and 80s.