2-699-427 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Licensed Victuallers' Asylum', (c1878). View of the Licensed Victuallers' National Asylum, an almshouse estate off the Old Kent Road at Asylum Road, (now south east London). It opened in 1827, 'to relieve poor and aged members of the licensed victualling trade and their wives or widows'. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]