M0010022: "The Rookery", a slum, in St. Giles', London

Previous title, replaced February 2021: 'The Rookery', St. Giles', 1850.

Reproduction of a drawing of "The Rookery'", St. Giles', London from 1850, showing crowded living conditions and lack of sanitation. It was reproduced in Old London, volume II, p.24

03 June 1947

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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