Thanksgiving Model Buildings, Portpool Lane, Gray's Inn Road, High Holborn, London: the north side partly destroyed by bombs
Architect/Designer | Roberts, Henry (1803-1876) |
Artist/Photographer | Newbery, Sydney W. (1894-1985) |
Country | UK: England |
City | London |
Subject Date | 1850 |
Image Date | 1943 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Victorian |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | AP68/109 (Newbery 4889) |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Bomb sites ; Brickwork ; Flats ; Housing ; Arches |
NOTES: Built for the 'Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes', this block consisted of two four-storey buildings providing accommodation for 20 families and 128 single women. Badly bomb-damaged during the Blitz of World War II, the buildings were subsequently demolished.
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