2-714-918 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Gate-House, Highgate, in 1820', (c1876). The Gatehouse, was a dwelling from 1661, and takes its' name from the gatehouse where tolls were taken from travellers heading out of London to the North. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]