2-634-895 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Dining room in a Rowton House, Hammersmith, London, c1902 (1903). Rowton Houses were a chain of hostels built in London by Lord Rowton (1838-1903) to provide accommodation for working men in place of the squalid lodging houses of the time. The Hammersmith Rowton house opened in 1897. From Living London, Vol. III, by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]