2-634-590 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Paternoster Row, City of London, 1911. Paternoster Row was the centre of the London publishing trade. In 1819 Paternoster Row was described as ‘almost synonymous’ with the book trade. Between 29-30 December 1940 the street was devastated during a Blitz of incendiary bombs. The street was replaced with Paternoster Square, the modern home of the London Stock Exchange. From London - The City, by Sir Walter Besant. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1911]