Cheapside 1823 Alfred Henry Bool Photograph taken 29

Photograph taken 29

They have bought the right to vote for the needy children of their choice

linking the past to the present in unexpected but illuminating ways

Coloured advertisement for 'Harness' Electric Corsets'

Cheapside 1823 Alfred Henry Bool Photograph taken 29Cheapside, 1823. Coloured lithograph. General, bird's eye view of a busy street at Cheapside. Richard Rush, the American ambassador, wondered at the City's busy streets. He wrote in 1817 of the pavements 'crowded with people' and the 'coal waggons and others as large, carts, trucks, vehicles of every sort, loaded in every way . . . in two close lines, like great tides, going reverse ways, and reaching farther than the eye can see.'