2-703-861 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Old Houses in Highgate From Whose Doorways Villagers Watched the Coaches Pass.', c1935. Clapboard houses in Townsend Yard, north London, on the old coaching route. The 18th-century window tax explains the sparsity of windows. From "Wonderful London, Volume 2", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]