2-699-246 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'York Stairs and the Water Tower', (1881). 18th-century view of York Watergate, Buckingham Street, Westminster, London. Built in 1626 by Nicholas Stone (1586-1647), the watergate gave access to the River Thames from York House, a mansion on the Strand. Westminster Bridge can be seen in the distance. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]