No. 824: Page Street, SW1
Page Street, London, SW1. Photo © Roger Dean 2011
The Physiology of London Life , in Bentley’s Miscellany – John Fisher Murray, 1844:
Laugh then, and grow fat; we are a cockney; we love a bit of anything green; we love Stationers’ Hall Court, with its one green plant, and its one green tree; we love our own geranium in our own pot, and our own mignionette in our own broken jug; we love our neighbour in the back attic, who has a Southern aspect, and who gets out his crocuses a fortnight before the second floor […]
these are getting better and better Mr Dean….
very graphic, bold and utilitarian and then interspersed with a a bit of nature/femininity in the flowers.
Many thanks Mr Marks