Tenements Collection

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

Demolition of houses in Rue de la pierre qui Rage, Marseille
Demolition of a street of old houses on Rue de la pierre qui Rage, set behind the Bourse in Marseille, France. The Palais de la Bourse is situated on the Canebiere

Flats collapse in a Fenian Street, 1963
Two four storey tenements in Dublin came apart on 12th June 1963. Firemen and resuce workers rushed to the scene, but two children were buried and died in the rubble

Tenements in a quiet street - Venice, Italy
Tenements in a quiet street in Venice, Italy. Date: 1916

Irelands Mansion, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Irelands Mansion, High Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire - the most ambitious surviving 16th Century timber building in Shrewsbury, built by Robert Ireland partly as property speculation

Row of tenements, 260 to 268 Elizabeth St. NY, in which a great deal of finishing of clothes is carried on. See photo of 2824, which shows condition of halls

Everybody works but - -. A common scene in the tenements

The Old Curiosity Shop, Nell in the churchyard
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, first published in the weekly serial Master Humphreys Clock from 1840 to 1841 and then as its own book in 1841

Demolition / Paris
Demolition work prior to the building of the Rue des Ecoles with half demolished tenements propped up with wooden buttresses. Residents continue to dry their washing

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