Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black The Serpentine was created early

The Serpentine was created early in George II's reign by damming the Westbourne

Sclater Street in the South East and Blue Anchor Alley in the South West

London Bridge with traffic The photos are in an album titled 'The City' which contains 20 albumen prints and one loose mounted albumen print

but as rents increased

Tea merchants are also shown sampling the tea - which is unlikely to have happened until after the cargo had been properly warehoused

Putney Bridge - the return: 1872 Frame:black The Serpentine was created earlyAn illustration of the Boat Race at Putney Bridge from 'London, a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. Jerrold describes the scene, with the Oxford and Cambridge rowers approaching 'amid frantic shouting, amid a snow storm of pocket handkerchiefs and delirious ravings of purple faced betting men'. The rowers are followed by a 'helter skelter' of steamers 'hidden under their human burden and gay with bunting'. On the bridge the