2-699-247 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Buckingham Gate in 1830', (1881). Buckingham Gate, also known as the York Watergate, was built in 1626 and gave access to the River Thames from York House, a mansion on the Strand in London. The building of the Thames Embankment in the 1860s left it 150 yards from the river. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]