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'Old Swan Yard, Fore Street, Lambeth: All demolished to make room for Albert Embankment. The old red-tiled, wood-faced houses shown were distinctly picturesque with their dormer windows, and the lower taller ones latticed and opening outwards. The outside storm shutters of varying size and sort are also noticeable. The court paving is of the rough antique kind. Lambeth Churchyard iron railings are noticeable through the opening at the head of the yard. Above this opening is the back of Bunyan's Hall. The Doulton family "ran" a Sunday School here, at which Sir Henry Doulton was a teacher. Swan Yard was at one time largely a Welsh colony, and these people held annually a Welsh Fair on St David's Day in Lambeth Road, down to the Palace Yard' - Charles Woolley quote 1915.

Photograph by William Strudwick (1834-1910).

Ref. SP12/170/SWA.3

Details
Collection:
Image type:	Photograph
Artist:	William Strudwick
Ref:	07372
Identifier:	SP12/170/SWA.3
Date:	c.1865

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