2-699-419 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'West Coombe, in 1794', (c1878). West Combe in Blackheath, then a village outside London, was built in the 1720s. Among those who lived there over the years were the general and colonial administrator Clive of India, and the banker Alexander Baring. 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]