King William Street London 1896 Antique Print

A black & white print, rescued from a disbound book from 1896 about London, with another picture on the reverse side.

Suitable for framing, the average page size including text is approx 12" x 9.25" or 30.4cm x 23.5cm.

Actual picture size is approx 10" x 7" or 25.4cm x 17.7cm

This is an antique print not a modern copy and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print. Please view any scans as they form part of the description.

All prints will be sent bagged and in a tube, large letter size box or board backed envelope for protection in transit.

While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.

Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)

KING WILLIAM STREET.—This. busy City street leads south-east from the Bank of England, or rather from the Mansion House, to London Bridge. On entering it, you will notice immediately on the left, at the corner of Lombard Street, the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, erected in 1716 by Nicholas Hawksmoor, who acted as Wren's deputy during the erection of the hospitals at Chelsea and Greenwich, and also in the building of most of the City churches. The exterior of this church is praised by competent authorities for its boldness and originality--though one eminent critic complains that the details are ponderous enough for a fortress or a prison. King William Street is by no means a long thoroughfare, but it is an excellent example of our City streets. At the point where King William Street, Gracechurch Steet, Eastcheap, and Cannon Street converge, rises the statue of William IV., by Nixon. There is nothing very striking about the statue; it is of granite, and cost upwards of £2,000, of which £1,600 was voted by the Common Council of London. It is ift. sin. in height, weighs 20 tons, and is chiefly memorable as marking the site once occupied by the old and famous Boar's Head Tavern, rendered for ever memorable by Shakespeare as the scene of the roysterings of Falstaff and Prince Henry. Adjoining King William Street are the Monument Station of the Underground Railway and the City terminus of the Electric Railway. Both ends of this street re scenes of amazing bustle and animation; yet Lombard Street, which turns away from it at the Church of St. Mary Woolnoth, is comparatively quiet, and groups of bank clerks may be seen chatting in the roadway during business hours.