2-637-476 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The loft used by the Cato Street Conspirators, London, 1820 (1878). The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. The name comes from the meeting place of the conspirators in Cato Street, near Edgware Road, London. From Old and New London Illustrated, Vol IV, by Edward Walford. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, 1878]