Hookey Alf 1876-1878 Type:art print The cafés around Charing Cross

The cafés around Charing Cross catered for theatre and cinema visitors

the estuary has long been a gateway for travellers

One of the best of these photographers was George Washington Wilson who

Photograph taken in October 1940

on 19 July 1908

Hookey Alf 1876-1878 Type:art print The cafés around Charing CrossA group including a child inside the Hookey Alf public house in Whitechapel. The image is taken from a series of 37 photographs published in the book, 'Street Life in London' (1877), with text written by John Thomson and the journalist Adolphe Smith. After taking photographs in the Far East, Thomson opened a portrait studio in London in 1875. Two years later he collaborated with the journalist, Adolphe Smith, to produce 'Street Life in London'. The