2-703-807 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Children Play Where Once The Scaffold Dripped Blood', c1935. Garden at Tower Hill, near the City of London. The paved area marks the site of the scaffold which was used for public executions between 1535 and 1745. Behind is the former headquarters of the Port of London Authority, designed by Sir Edwin Cooper and built 1912-1922. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]