3-101-182 - "Royal Academy of Arts, London"/Heritage Images

Old Houses, Fleet Street, c1884. Shops in the City of London: 'W.m. Reeves, Bookseller & Publisher, Depot for Musical Books, Libraries Purchased, Office of the Musical Standard weekly 3d, the Musical Gazette & Review, monthly 2d; Daily News, The Metropolitan School of Short Hand, The Central School of French; Cod is now in Full Season, Prime Fried Turbot, 6d, Try Our...South Dutch Mussels'. Description by Alfred Marks: 'Aubrey tells us that Michael Drayton, the poet, "lived at the bay-windowe house, next the East end of St. Dunstan's Ch." Tradition claimes for the house shown in the middle of the photograph the honour of having been the residence of the author of Polyoblion. The Great Fire stopped on the north side of Fleet Street, at Fetter Lane, sparing St. Dunstan's and the intervening block of houses. The house certainly dates from before the Fire, and it agrees with Aubrey's description.'