2-714-824 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The "Halfway House", Kensington, 1850', (c1876). The Halfway House Inn, where spies for the highwaymen of Hounslow Heath would see who was travelling and pass the word about fine carriages or vulnerable riders. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]