2-699-509 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Holcrofts and the Priory, Fulham', (c1878). View of the Fulham Road, with Holcrofts Hall to the left, and Holcrofts Priory on the right. Sheep are being driven down the street, with people travelling in a horse-drawn cart. Holcrofts Halll, built c1700, was at one time the home of English actress and a contralto opera singer Madame (Lucia) Vestris, (1797-1856). Fulham, which at that time was a village on the River Thames, is now part of greater London. 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]