2-699-136 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hall of the Carpenters' Company', c1872. View of the Carpenters' Hall, built by the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, one of the livery companies of the City of London. A fire in 1849 severely weakened the building, and a second Hall was built during the 1870s. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]