Pedestrians Gallery

View down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London

A superb postcard view down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London - the detial is incredible, with individual shops identifiable, the pavements as busy (as they ever are!) and the impressive form of the Victorian schoolhouse on Independence Road, now a Montessori Centre and Private Hospital. Date: circa 1909

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

City of London Union Infirmary, Mile End Road

Situated where Mile End Road continues as Bow Road, the City of London Union Infirmary (now St Clement's Hospital) opened in 1849 as the City of London Union workhouse. On the street in front of the building are pedestrians, a hand cart and a horse-drawn cart

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

1840s, 1849, 1910, Architecture, Bow, Building, Buildings, Cart, City, Clement, Clements, Drawn, East, Edwardian, End, Front, Hand, Historical, History, Homeless, Homelessness, Horse, Hospital, Housing, Infirmary, L Aw, Legislation, Mile, Pauper, Paupers, Pavement, Pedestrians, Poor, Poverty, Road, St, Street, Union, Victorian, Workhouse, Workhouses

Street scene, Carmarthen, Dyfed, South Wales

A street scene in Carmarthen, the county town of Carmarthenshire, Dyfed, South Wales. The grocer's shop on the left displays a large coffee pot on the corner of the building

© Mary Evans / Roger Worsley Archive

1890, 1890s, Anchor, Building, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Cart, Coffee, Corner, County, Dyfed, Edwin, Grocer, Hand, Historical, History, House, Job, Large, Merchant, Pedestrians, Pot, Scene, Shop, Shops, South, Spirit, Street, Town, Victorian, Wales, Welsh, Wine