2-699-385 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hall of the Southwark Train-Bands, in 1813', (c1878). Derelict building in south London: 'the train-bands of Southwark used to practise therein'. A trainband was company of trained militia from the 16th to the 18th century. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]