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View looking along a court in Lower Fore Street, Lambeth, later replaced by Albert Embankment. A covered bridge across the street connects the extensive pottery works of J. Stiff with access to the river foreshore to the right. Charles Woolley describes the area in 1915, 'The scenes in all these Courts when palls of almost impenetrable black and yellow fog prevailed freely during spring, summer, autumn and winter, in the days prior to smoke abatment, were desolate in the extreme, and the were, all of them, most unsanitary, and, properly speaking, quite unfit for human habitation. It is notorious that fever and ailment were always rife in them. There were no active sanitary authorities then, and the population suffered accordingly'. Photographed using the 'wet plate' method by William Strudwick (1834-1910).

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Details
Collection:	Strudwick
Image type:	Photograph
Artist:	William Strudwick
Ref:	00434
Identifier:	S3196 / 74
Date:	c.1865