2-699-125 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Street Front of Crosby Hall', c1872. Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate, City of London, was built in 1466 by the wool merchant Sir John Crosby. From 1621 to 1638 the East India Company used the building as a warehouse. Crosby Hall is the only surviving example of a medieval City merchant's house in London. 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]