2-699-183 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Fleet Ditch, from the Red Lion.', (c1872). View of the Old Red Lion Tavern in Chick Lane, and the Fleet Ditch ,West Smithfield, London. The River Fleet became increasingly unhygienic and was covered over in the 19th century. From Old and New London, Vol. II: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]