Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Frans Franken Wellington Street and Aldwych West

Wellington Street and Aldwych West arm from Lancaster Place

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The Bermondsey B'hoys from the 2nd Grenadier Guards appear at ease for this informal photograph taken inside their base at Wellington Barracks

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Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Frans Franken Wellington Street and Aldwych WestAn illustration of Bishopsgate Street from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. People can be seen gathered in the Sir Paul Pindar Stout House. The building had originally been built c. 1599 as a mansion for Sir Paul Pindar, a merchant and diplomat whose wealth in 1639 was estimated at 236,000. However he died in debt and by the 1780s the mansion had become a tavern. It was pulled down in 1890 and the carved oak front is