B/W print; houses in Millbank before demolition, circa 1905
Main details
| Reference number | 1999/1544 |
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| Description | The east (river) side of Millbank, showing a range of property now demolished: a pumping station, a public house, wharfinger's offices, and Georgian houses. No information regarding the significance of the Royal Coat of Arms above the door of Lot 2 was recorded. White suggests that the property could have ended up as the property of a temporary government office. This is a street scene showing some of the entrances of the buildings boarded up, and a solitary workman with timber outside a house, which White notes as having a "rather good doorway, and very worn steps". |
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| Dates | circa 1905 |
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| Photograph number | Ukn |
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| Completeness | 75% |
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Physical description
Item content Attribute Value Text Building: The Brewers Arms, Watney and Co.'s EntireAnnotation MILLBANK, THE EAST (RIVER) SIDE, SHOWING A RANGE OF PROPERTY DEMOLISHED - a Pumping Station, a Public House, Wharfinger's Offices, and Georgian houses. The significance of the Royal Arms over the porch of "Lot No. 2" is unknown, probably this house finished up as a temporary Government office of some sort. Note the rather good doorway of the house on the right and the very worn steps. Photograph (Ref. No. 5194) supplied by the L.C.C., Feb., 1923.
MILLBANK TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
CONTEMPORARY EVIDENCE.
"Millbank, a very long place, which beginneth by the Old Palace Yard and runneth up unto Peterborough House, which is the farthest house. The part from against College St. unto the Horse Ferry hath a good row of buildings on the east side next to the Thames, which is most taken up with large woodmongers' yards and brewhouses, and here is a waterhouse which serveth this end of the town. The north side is but ordinary, except one or two houses by the end of College St., and that part beyond the Horse Ferry hath a very good row of houses much inhabited by gentry, by reason of their pleasant situation and prospect of the Thames. The Earl of Peterborough's house hath a large courtyard before it and a fine garden behind it; but its situation is but bleak in the winter, and not over healthful, as being so near the low meadows on the south and west parts." - STRYPE (1720).
Notes: - Maybe the houses shown overleaf are the "good row of buildings on the east side?" The public house may be regarded as a memento of the brewhouses; and - coincidence! - there is a "waterhouse," in the form of the hydraulic power station; while the woodmongers' yards are the wharves, etc., shown in the other photographs. The "good row of houses much inhabited by gentry" are the L.G.O.C. office range of houses. The site of Peterborough House is marked by Mowlem's.Design Attribute Value Shot Medium exterior -
People involved
Role Person(s) involved Photographer unknown, circa 1905 -
Associated companies, people and places
Places Borough Westminster,Location Millbank, Westminster, SW1People Attribute Value People Charles White -