3-101-175 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Old Houses in Borough High Street, Southwark, c1881. Shops in south London: R. & J. Dick's, Gutta-Percha, boot and shoe depot; Chaplin & Co., 'draught excluders for public house doors fitted up complete, bicycle tyres as supplied by us to the champion bicyclist of France, garden-hose, suction-hose...waterproofs, water beds for sale, gas tubing'; 'Boro Toilet - Club - hair cut 3d - shaving 1½d'; Redman & Son, butcher's shop. 'Of these there is no more to be said than that they are a picturesque group of houses of about the beginning of the eighteenth century.' Description by Alfred Marks.