2-699-440 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Dr. Lettsom's House, Grove Hill', (c1878). The house of physician and philanthropist John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815) in the village of Camberwell, (now part of south east London), was built in 1780. His garden contained fruit trees, a kitchen garden, hothouse, shrubs from America, classical statues, a small farm with pigs and hens, an aviary and a menagerie. It attracted many visitors. The house was demolished in the 1890s. 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]