A young boy leaning against railings beside a large unidentified gate with urn-topped stone gate piers, likely to have been the entrance to one of the richer homes or public buildings in Stepney

Date:: circa 1890

Location:: Stepney, Tower Hamlets, Greater London Authority, E1

Reference:: BB032704

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Description

This is a copy negative, created at some point after 2000, from original print OP18663 of circa 1890 also held in this collection. The card mount to which the original print is affixed has been titled 'Stepney Square', which may indicate that the pictured gate and buildings were located on one of the squares in Stepney, most likely Wellclose Square or Swedenborg Square. Original print the London Survey Committee.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/81 Early Photographic Print Collection: Tower Hamlets; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive