3-095-437 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Old Houses in Aldersgate Street, c1879. Shops in the City of London. "This group of houses has no history that can be, or at least has been, traced. The houses are interesting specimens of street architecture of the beginning of the seventeenth century. They are now about to be demolished." Description by Alfred Marks. Signs read: 'To Let; European; Roast Beef; D. Moss, Glass Manufacturer; John Robbins, Practical Opticians, Educational & Students Microscopes; Shilling Spectacles; Magic Lanterns lent for the evening; Franks Manifold Writers; City Provident Dispensary & Surgical Appliance Association; Woolf Hyman, Fur Manufacturers'.