2-699-451 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Margaret Finch's Cottage, Norwood in 1808', (c1878). House in what was the village of Norwood, (now part of greater London), lived in by Margaret Finch, 'Queen of the Gipsies'. She apparently told fortunes, smoked a pipe, and lived till 108. 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]